Slack is awesome. We use it at work to boost productivity, and I use it outside of work to reduce productivity and also to liaise with freelance clients. Losing…
So I’ve recently been seeking some extra work outside of the 9 to 5. My Slack community DEVANZ has provided me a few avenues, personal connections in Melbourne…
I had a Node.js script that I wanted to run automatically every day, and I wanted to receive its output via email because I am lazy. So I…
First off, installing the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack on an AWS EC2 instance is super easy. But you need the right set of instructions to do…
I have not done a blog post in ages. There’s been a few discussions about React vs Angular on the chat room at DEVANZ – the sentiment seems…
If you have a Google Apps for Work (formerly Businesses) and if you suddenly find yourself sending out a large amount of emails via tools like Yet Another Mail…
Here’s an app that I made for pure fun. I was wanting to give hybrid mobile app development a go – after searching the net for hours with…
Setting up my Express 4.x + Node.js endpoint to use was way easier than I thought. In fact, the instructions for Express 3.x worked like a charm on…
I quickly threw together a short URL expander using this API, JSONP calls via jQuery and a little Bootstrap after seeing this: See that bit.ly link? That shouldn’t…
Let me start with the full code: Do you live in Australia or New Zealand? Are you in the IT industry? If so, I would like to invite…
Here’s a simple tool I made yesterday for converting multiple lines of pasted text into a Javascript array. See the Pen Convert Multiple Lines to Javascript Array by Francis…
I feel guilty that I haven’t done a blog post in a while. It’s 1:02AM here in Melbourne, I’ll keep this nice and short as it is only…
Months ago, I was playing around with the Microsoft Kinect (1 and 2) as I had some ideas around integrating gesture recognition with an eCommerce API. Of course…
I created DEVANZ. It stands for Developers (coders) of Australia & New Zealand, and the motto is ‘Developing (coding) Australia & New Zealand’. What do you think, pretty cool?…
The ingredients: Linux server running Node.js + Express (might work on Windows?) Node modules: mysql, body-parser MySQL installed Chrome with Tampermonkey (alternatively Firefox and Greasemonkey) You might wonder,…
I said I’ll try to post a few times a week about 30 minutes ago and here I am, already on my second post. Being a contractor since…
I’ve recently been playing around with Node.js quite a bit. In my opinion, the major advantage of Node.js is that it allows for super-fast, rapid development. For example,…