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sharing the power of code
Sometimes, for testing or development, you need to slow down an ajax response from the server. In the Grails framework, to delay a controller’s response, do the following: In the action you want to delay, insert: Thread.sleep(5000) as in: def…
Test and restart an nginx configuration change The reload will not happen if the test fails. sudo nginx -t && service nginx reload or, on a bitnami image: sudo nginx -t && sudo restart nginx Redirect all subdomains…
I did not find any examples of using WordPress’s “end-callback” argument for “wp_list_comments”. It is documented by WordPress here. Here is an example of how to use it in child-theme code to add custom HTML after each top level comment.…
Mount a shared folder on a linux (Debian) guest: Make sure you have already installed the Virtual Box Guest Additions. Set up a ‘transient’ folder via the Virtual Box GUI (Devices > Shared Folders) In a terminal window in the…
If you have to encode a reserved character (such as ‘/’ or ‘@’) so that it can be passed in a URI path, you may need to encode it twice: Example: const ticker = ‘@SMC/2018’, encodedTicker = encodeURIComponent(encodeURIComponent(ticker)), uri =…
This is an example of ‘security through obscurity‘. This assumes you’ve already installed WordPress. Backup DB Make a backup of your WordPress database. Edit wp-config.php Edit this line in file wp-config.php: $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; so that ‘wp_’ has some short…
Recursion in programming can be a mind bender. Here are two examples of recursive functions coded in JavaScript. These examples are dependent on lodash methods. Hopefully these code patterns are useful to you. I find them useful as starting points…
This outputs your stuff in a folder called ‘packageName’: tar -xvzf packageName.tar.gz This can help tell you what version of linux or at least linux kernel you are running: uname -a Find a process and kill it: Run…
If you are getting this error when trying to start a Grails Project in Intellij: Error starting Grails: com/springsource/loaded/ri/ReflectiveInterceptor try deleting the ./.slcache folder at the top level of your project: projectname/.slcache This problem came when I was trying to…
Assumptions: You are running Neo4J Community Edition 3.2.1 or greater on a Linux VM on Azure You have a wildcard SSL cert purchased from Azure and stored in an Azure keyvault You can run Powershell ISE on a Windows machine…