Web Development

Posts related to web development topics, development tools, strategies, etc. This page lists all posts in the category, in reverse chronological order.

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• Validating Links On This Site

  Posted Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 10:47 AM  in Web Development
  

  When I migrated this site from Joomla! to Eleventy, one of the things I didn't spend much time on was validating the links in the site (both internal and external links). I recently decided to spend some time to check all of the links in the site and ended up spending time building a utility that automated the process for me.

• Yet Another Link Checker Utility

  Posted Friday, November 15, 2024 at 06:03 PM  in Web Development
  

  Describes a node.js-based utility I created and published to validate web links in a web site or page.

• Testing a Bunny.Net CDN

  Posted Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 09:25 PM  in Miscellaneous, Web Development
  

  As I worked through the process of publishing a Windows app to the Windows Store, I found that I needed a CDN and this post describes how I addressed that requirement.

• Leaked Credentials from Google Cloud Project

  Posted January 6, 2024  in Cloud Development, Eleventy, Web Development
  

  Describes an issue I had connecting Google Analytics to this site; Google Cloud Security complained mightily about access credentials I stored in the site's public repo.

• GitHub JavaScript Module Used By Panel

  Posted May 15, 2023  in Web Development
  

  On a module's repository page, GitHub shows which other repositories use the module. Who knew?

• Implementing Custom Pipes in Ionic

  Posted July 19, 2021  in Web Development
  

  Pipes are a really cool feature in Angular and Ionic and I had an opportunity to build one of my own and this post describes what I did and points you to the code.

• Displaying Build Information in ReactJS

  Posted May 15, 2021  in Web Development
  

  I've been doing a lot of React development lately and I wanted the ability to display the app version number in the app. Now that I have the Ionic Build Info utility I described in the previous post, I copied that project and created a version of it that works for React as well.

• Displaying Build Information in Ionic Applications

  Posted May 14, 2021  in Web Development
  

  I was building an Ionic app and I wanted to display the app version in the app without having to hard code it as a constant in the app. Recognizing that the app's `package.json` file contained the app version and I could update it when I needed outside of the app, I built a little utility that writes a data file to the ionic project with build information that can be displayed anywhere in the app.

• PWA Webinar This Month

  Posted July 31, 2020  in Web Development
  

  To help promote my latest book and to make a little money, I agreed to deliver an O'Reilly webinar on Progressive Web Apps. This post provides details about the event.

• Discarding Data Object Edits in Ionic

  Posted June 6, 2020  in Web Development
  

  When editing an object in an Ionic application, the framework automatically saves your changes to the object even though the user may have cancelled the edit page. In this post, I describe an approach I discovered that allows me to discard those changes when the user closes the edit page without saving.

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