How to Format a Number as a Currency in Javascript
There are quite a few ways to format a number as a currency value in Javascript. This is a common task when building web applications, similar to …
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How to Change the Timezone on Ubuntu Server
If you’ve ever typed date into your Ubuntu Server and seen a different time or timezone appear than you expected, then it probably means that …
How to make a Python script Pip-installable
As Python developers, we’ve all used pip to install applications, but speaking to other Python developers, it’s not always clear how to …
How to Host an AngularJS site on AWS S3
AngularJS is a Javascript Framework that allows you to create dynamic front-end web applications easily.
I have traditionally packaged these …
Read Article →How to send emails using Python and AWS SES SMTP
Sending emails using Python and AWS’ SES service is really easy. They provide an SMTP server that you can authenticate against and send email …
Read Article →Generate a random number between two numbers in JavaScript
If you need to generate a random number between two numbers in JavaScript, then you are in the right place! Here you will learn javascript random …
Read Article →Why Password Managers are Not the Solution
Why a Password Manager?
Password managers exist for two main reasons.
Firstly, to generate strong passwords and secondly so that you don’t end …
Read Article →Read the top n lines of a file in Python
Sometimes you may need to read the top n lines of a file using Python.
We start by opening the file for reading and then using a list comprehension we …
Read Article →How Fast is your Website?
I operate a bunch of different sites and have done for many years now.
Some of them get quite a lot of traffic and require a high level of uptime.
To …
Read Article →How to Git Reset a Single File
It’s very easy to reset files that have not yet been committed to git.
Reset a single file
git reset <filename>
You can also specify the …
Read Article →Introducing Variables in Golang
Golang comes with a decent offering around variables that you can use to store, retrieve and manipulate information.
A variable is defined with the …
Read Article →Golang cannot convert (type string) to type int
Every language has it’s ways of converting data types. One of the most common data types to convert between is that of strings (string) and …
Learn Golang as a Python Developer
Learning Go or Golang as a Python developer, programmer or software engineer is easier than you think.
While there are quite a lot of things to learn …
Read Article →Remove Special Characters in a String using Bash
Programming languages provide the ability to remove special characters from a string quite easily.
Sometimes you need to also do this from your …
Read Article →Get the Amount of Days Between Two Dates in Python
Let’s say that you have two dates:
"2019-01-29"
"2019-06-30"
How would you create a function that would return the number of …
Read Article →How to Always run Python 3 from Bash
Given a directory that contains:
|
|- app.py
|- requirements.txt
|- ...
|- <- other-files ->
|- ...
We can create a runme.sh file to always make …
How to Run the Kubernetes Dashboard Locally
Kubernetes comes with a pretty nice dashboard to view clusters, worker groups, nodes and pods. As well as a ton of other useful things.
This tutorial …
Read Article →How to tell if a year is a Leap Year in Python
Given that we are in a leap year this year (2020), it would be nice to know how to programmatically calculate this.
Luckily, this is a repeatable …
Read Article →How to Reverse a Linked List in Python
It’s important to know about data types and one that comes up fairly regularly is that of Linked Lists.
Let’s write the following base …
Read Article →The Docker Quickstart Guide for Developers
This Docker Quickstart Guide for Developers aims to get developers familiar with Docker as quickly as possible.
Providing you with the knowledge to be …
Read Article →How to Follow Redirects with cURL for CLI or PHP
Let’s take a really common example. Say we want to follow redirects with cURL for google.com. It is common to curl follow redirect a URL.
Follow …
Read Article →How to tell if a String contains a Substring in Javascript
Javascript comes with some pretty good support for determining if a string contains a substring.
There is the newer includes function which was …
How to package a Python app (pip) for PyPi
In this tutorial, we will create a Python application that can be installed directly from pip that will show the 10 latest blog posts from this …
How to find the longest Palindrome in a String using Python
This occasionally comes up during coding interviews and is actually quite a decent way to test someone’s aptitude of moving back and forth on a …
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