Dilip Kr. Shukla fusionstrings

#Stay Standalone

A short script to prevent internal links to a "webapp" added to iPhone home screen to open in Safari instead of navigating internally.

Tutorial: Meteor in Windows using Vagrant

BEFORE YOU CONTINUE:

Now, Meteor runs in any Windows without any line of this tutorial. Just download the Meteor binary! Yay!!
mrt is no longer used with Meteor 1.0

These days some people were discussing at meteor-talk group about running Meteor at Windows and I’ve recommended them using Vagrant. It’s a very developer-friendly piece of software that creates a virtual machine (VM) which let you run any operating system wanted and connect to it without big efforts of configuration (just make the initial installation and you have it working).

Many packages (I've tested) for running Meteor+Vagrant fails because Meteor writes its mongodb file and also other files inside local build folder into a shared folder between the Windows host and the Linux guest, and it simply does not work. So I've put my brain to work and found a solution: do symlinks inside the VM (but do not use ln. Use mount so git can follow it). It’s covered on

I have been doing a heap of reading about semver and how you can include build meta-data and other things, but I am really struggling to find a way to fit SemVer and Continous Delivery together.

Currently I am the primary maintainer or a main contributor for for:
https://github.com/TestStack/White
https://github.com/JakeGinnivan/VSTOContrib
https://github.com/DbUp/DbUp
https://github.com/Code52/DownmarkerWPF
https://github.com/TestStack/ConventionTests

And quite a few other smaller projects (https://github.com/JakeGinnivan?tab=repositories)

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

Styling native elements

Native HTML controls are a challenge to style. You can style any element in the web platform that uses Shadow DOM with a pseudo element ::pseudo-element or the /deep/ path selector.

video::webkit-media-controls-timeline {
  background-color: lime;
}

video /deep/ input[type=range] {

Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

	#!/bin/bash
	echo "Generating an SSL private key to sign your certificate..."
	openssl genrsa -des3 -out myssl.key 1024

	echo "Generating a Certificate Signing Request..."
	openssl req -new -key myssl.key -out myssl.csr

	echo "Removing passphrase from key (for nginx)..."
	cp myssl.key myssl.key.org
	openssl rsa -in myssl.key.org -out myssl.key

	/**
	* Get a random floating point number between `min` and `max`.
	*
	* @param {number} min - min number
	* @param {number} max - max number
	* @return {number} a random floating point number
	*/
	function getRandomFloat(min, max) {
	return Math.random() * (max - min) + min;
	}

	var dom = Bloop.dom;

	var Box = Bloop.createClass({
	getInitialState: function() {
	return { number: 0 };
	},

	updateNumber: function() {
	this.state.number++;
	},