Developer Jess

I had my mid-year review yesterday, and delighted to have good comments from my boss for my contributions to all of our current projects.  The main thing he highlighted to me is that I should communicate my changes a bit more - perhaps an email/slack message at the end of the day, or better yet - some form of change log .  Definitely a good piece of constructive criticism. So I woke up this morning ready to find a good method to keep this to my routine, and to be honest, I was fairly let down with the tools that were off the shelf.  A simple Google search revealed mainly just how different groups defined the term, and maybe a couple of templates here and there.  I thought, what is the best way to document changes as well as to link those entries to the respective files and where they were changed.  My target audience is only the small team that I work alongside. And then it hit me; up until then I had not used GitHub releases, as I was only ever the sole developer on the platforms I wa

This is going to be just a quick entry today, and when I was thinking of what to write about, it dawned on me just how much research I had gone in to in making different types of requests (https) in Node.  Took me a while to first have it so it was able to switch between a GET and a POST of JSON data, but then when I needed to make changes on how I would post Form data (including a file attachment) was another kettle of fish - steam rolled at every turn. So - let me help take you out of your misery.  Here is my base function and its required required libraries: An example of using this would go like follows. form = {      file: '@/tmp/path/to/filename.txt',      comment: '' }; request("POST","www.server.com","/",{},{'Custom-Header':'Custom-Value'},form) .then(res=>{ //console.log(res); //... }) .catch(err=>{console.log(`Request Error: ${err}`)}); This will send form data, including the filename you specified in to the

I'm sure it will come as no surprise that the reason it has been so long since I have published a post is because all of our lives have been turned upside down during this current crisis.  My heart goes out to everyone doing it tough, as so many jobs - including people close to me have had their jobs be made redundant.  Fortunately in my position, things have only gotten busier. My day job is for a company in the field of wholesale distribution, and the when the virus has put us in lock-down, the Government called upon our company and other retailers to have a deliverable solution for essential items.  Proud to say that while our company has never pulled something like this before - we did so in only 8 days .  It only offered 4 item as packs of essentials, but we saw a great proof of concept. Just as quickly, has it now expanded to the full product line, with registration now open to all and not those just who are most at risk.  The solution we have applied is simple, but very eleg