Author:Chris
The new 2019 Lotto Max payout scheme: more ways to lose money!
Before I even updated my Lotto Max Calculator with the new payouts, I knew right away the OLG wanted to accomplish two things with their changes to Lotto Max:
- Multiple draws per week, slightly more (but more difficult) ways to win non-jackpot prizes will allow them to say “more ways to win!” as well as …
- “Bigger jackpots!” whi
Ionic 4 + Angular 7: Checking whether the generic parent of a component is the active page
There’s no straightforward way yet in getting the parent component of a component via dependency injection without knowing the type of the parent component. This poses a problem if you want your component consumed by many different types of parent components.
A common scenario where this problem occurs is an Ionic 4 app with several pages that use so… Read more
ngx-translate: translate your JSON file to other languages
For Angular 2/3/4/5/6/7 developers, use this gadget to translate your en.json file.
This is relevant for developers that use @ngx-translate/core similar to the following in app.module:
import { TranslateModule, TranslateLoader } from '@ngx-translate/core';
@NgModule({
/* ... */
imports: [
TranslateModule.forRoot({
loader: {
provide: Translat… Read more
Ionic 4 Beta: what it means if your Ionic component is not “hydrated” (visibility: hidden rather than visibility: inherit)
Since documentation and StackOverflow answers are currently sparse for Ionic 4, this tip may hopefully help you save a lot of time debugging if you are transitioning a project from Ionic 3 to Ionic 4.
If you discover one of your components is missing the “hydrated” class, a class programmatically applied to Ionic 4 components at run-time (your … Read more
Extortion e-mail scams are on the rise again: the importance of using unique passwords
Have you been getting spam mail that looks like this recently?
… Read moreI know [password redacted] one of your password. Lets get directly to the purpose. You may not know me and you are most likely thinking why you’re getting this e mail? No one has compensated me to check about you.
Well, I installed a software on the xxx vids (sex sites) web-site and you know what
Why mining cryptocurrency is unprofitable — an anecdote
Long story short:
- had a particular machine mining XMR for less than a year
- the CPU fans have worn out their bearings after spinning non-stop during that time
- fans are now making loud high-pitched noises, filling my living quarters with unbearable noise, while simultaneous threatening a fried CPU
The cost of replacing the fans? About twice as much as the eq… Read more
Angular 2/3/4/5: change detection on data-bound array push/unshift, pop/shift or splice
Suppose you have a component and have bound an array variable to an input property, like so:
<myComponent [arrayInput]="myArray"></myComponent>
Suppose you were to modify the contents of myArray via its standard array methods such as push(x), pop(), unshift(x), shift(), or splice(i, c). You may notice that myComponent does n… Read more
Solr 7: match exactly one TextField, fuzzy search the others
Disclaimer: I just recently started tinkering with Solr, so this may not be the “textbook” solution to this problem — but it works!
Say you wish to categorize your documents in a hierarchy. For example, you want to have a pet search engine, and you want to bucket the pets accordingly:
… Read moreDog (mammal)
Dogs are domesticated mammals, not natural w
How to replace the default search icon with a custom Ionicon in an Ionic 3 Searchbar
The icon for the Ionic 3 Searchbar is a hard-coded SVG written in SCSS rules. In particular, they are saved under the following variables:
$searchbar-ios-input-search-icon-svg: "<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 13 13'> <path fill='fg-color' d='M5,1c2.2,0,4,1.8,4,4S7.2,9,5,9S1,7.2,1,5S2.8,1,5,1 M5,0C… Read more
Hack to make Ionic 3 Menu component static (keeping the menu open and ignoring backdrop and content clicks)
The current behaviour of the Ionic 3 Menu component doesn’t allow the menu to stay open if the user interacts with other content in the app.
There are a couple of reasons to want a static menu, with the content still in full view:
- Desktop web apps have sufficient space to show a menu and content simultaneously and we want a drawer to mimic a SplitPane
- Mobile