I wanted to get an email whenever my SailsJS (based on ExpressJS) app crashed. My logging stack consists of winston with a custom transport which emails me via AmazonSES. Instead of getting a nice stack trace, all I got was emails with {}…
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Explorations in Angular2 and Ionic2
I wrote an app. It does Metvuw.com and with a better UI. Plain, simple, no crap. Source code on Github https://github.com/wulfsolter/MetVuw https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/metvuw/id1067710943 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wulfsolter.metvuw
ReWrite all pages apart from /admin/ ones
Using Apache’s .htaccess you can rewrite many things… SetEnv HTTP_MOD_REWRITE On RewriteEngine On RewriteBase ‘/’ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule .* framework/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
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QCC Website – Queenstown Climbing Club
YAY! We’ve launched the new site for the Queenstown Climbing Club ( QCC ). Many thanks to Eddie Gapper ( President of QCC ) and the many many hands that have helped out with photos and content. Time to rock!
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Apache 500 error with NodeJS mod_proxy
An Apache reverse proxy setup with working NodeJS server (confirmed by locally cURL’ing, eg ‘curl localhost:8000’) is returning a 500 Internal Server Error, and nothing in any error logs to be found. Apache’s VHost looks to be working with correct…
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Cannot assign to read only property ‘value’ of (begin)
Espresso Server on NodeJS exits with error: Cannot assign to read only property ‘value’ of (begin) Possible contributing factor is upgrading Node from 0.10.x to 0.12.x Solution: Update jslint.js https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSLint/blob/master/jslint.js I was running a very old version (2011-06-07)
Adventure Tourism Awards
We Won! In the category of “Best Innovation” Wherewolf beat many capable contenders to win a nice heavy glass trophy.
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Javascript – Pretty Array to Human Readable String
To take a JS array like [“item1”, “item2”, “item3″….] into a nice human readable string of “item1, item2 & item3” with all the first items getting comma separated and the final one with an ampersand use: resultString = array.length >…
I watched you pop up online just now…
I watched you pop up online just now, but I don’t even know what to say to you anymore. That crazy smiling blonde hippy chick I met on the rooftop one morning, where in the world is she now? What…
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Herding The Cats
Herding The Cats Herding The Cats is what we call it. It’s gone by many many names over the years, from “Left Brain vs Right Brain” to “Talkers vs Doers” to “Creatives vs Logicals” and a myriad of other…
5 crucial tips for effective Facebook marketing
5 crucial tips for effective Facebook marketing It seems that every few days there is yet another “Facebook Strategies” article or discussion, You could be flipping through a trade magazine, skimming the weekend newspapers or attending a local business…
Collective Noun for Hipster
What is the collective noun for a group of hipsters? When there is more than one, what do you call them? First thought is that they usually roll solo, as to avoid these particular conundrums…. A few ideas: apathy of…
I love a good maori party….
This morning I noticed the domain maoriparty.co.nz had expired. Well if nobody from The Māori Party, a political party in New Zealand formed on 7 July 2004, was going to buy it…. then I might just have to have myself…
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Moving an EC2 instance across the world and between accounts
Today I moved servers between AWS accounts, and from one datacenter to another. What I didn’t see anywhere in the AWS Docs (and it makes a lot of sense) is you cannot share/access AMI Images across regions. Steps to move…
Photoshop Resize while maintaining aspect ratio
Photoshop’s inbuilt batch manipulation tools leave a lot to be desired, especially when dealing with a large quantity of images that are both portrait and landscape. This script recursively goes through folders, finds images, opens, trims background, resizes to 1100×1100…
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Wherewolf website launch
We’ve finally pushed our website live! http://wherewolf.co.nz/ With a lot of tourism industry leading clients profiled and a nice HTML5 embedded video showing what we’re up to, it’s about time too…..
Instant Nagios Starter by Michael Guthrie
With a growing number of servers at Wherewolf I needed to find a monitoring solution that was usable not just by the hard-core neckbeards, but by the junior devs as well. In the months since my last mid-sized server monitoring setup,…
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