I recently had to provide error data stored in Splunk logs to a business user (meaning non-technical). I decided to take the raw JSON log entries and convert them to CSV. Here’s how I did it. The first step was to export the log entries and massage them into a…

Let’s discuss a handy feature of Wix Data Collections: Data Hooks. Data hooks allow you to run code before or after interactions with your Wix data collections. This is particularly useful if you want to store some computed data, meaning data that changes based on what is in the data…

I recently needed the ability to pull data from a database at a specific interval and process that data. Not only that, but I also wanted to spread the processing to different goroutines (workers) in case the other goroutines were busy, much like a worker pool. This article will describe…

Perhaps you’ve seen articles or tweets positing that A.I. will be the death of the software developer.

Here’s how I built a color picker using only vanilla JavaScript and CSS, without using any JavaScript frameworks. — Today I was building a form for an administrative user in a web application to define user roles. On this form, the user can enter a name for the role and select a color to associate with the role. I’ve been building this application in old-fashioned JavaScript and CSS. Look…

The tools used for editing code, and the reasons behind them, are usually very personal. If you are suggesting that someone cannot be productive with Vim, Emac, and their ilk, I would say that assertion is off-base. I've used everything from Eclipse, VS Code, VS, JetBrains, to Sublime, and more…

I wish I could say that I haven't had to (practically) rewrite applications due to breaking framework changes, or that I hadn't had major refactor efforts due to some JavaScript framework that decided to completely break backward compatibility on the next release. Did we have to upgrade to the next major release? YES, because the older version no longer received security updates, and our company policy required us to stay up to date. I've felt this pain enough times to know that more often than not, sticking to the basics is often better than chasing the next shiny framework.

I got an Oculus Quest 2, the Virtual Reality (or VR) headset, for Christmas. I wanted one for three reasons. Video games Fitness “games” VR workspaces Let me start by saying that I’m loving this thing. The games are fun, the fitness makes exercise more manageable, especially for someone like…

Comparing the differences between an app built in React, Vue, and vanilla JavaScript with Web Components — Today I read a rather good piece by Sunil Sandhu that compares writing a todo application in React and Vue. In this article Sunil does an excellent job of describing each block of code, the differences between React and Vue, and why they work. …