Developing software in the Real World
I have a project where I need to store a number of items into a data store. I have an OpenWhisk action that stores the items so I wrote an action that takes advantage of the OpenWhisk JS client library to do invoke my store action once for each item in an array that this action receives. This is the JavaScript code that I used: "use strict"; const openwhisk = require('openwhisk'); async function main(params) {… continue reading.
I'm currently writing an OpenWhisk action in JavaScript that searches Twitter using their API. To do this, I need to get a bearer token from one API endpoint and then call the search endpoint. Disclaimer: I'm in no way a JavaScript expert, so I would love it if you could constructively suggest improvements in the comments! To do this in OpenWhisk, you need to use Promises like this:
With the help of Cliff, I've finally got a publically accessible subversion repository online at http://svn.akrabat.com! The first project with actual code in it is my Dynamic Javascript Tabs. I've updated the trunk to include the change suggested by Samio so that the "activation" code is not part of the js file and is not part of the htm file.
Simon Hamilton contacted me about adding ids to each tab, so I did! I've also fixed the CSS error that Adam noticed and correctly updated the version number in the license block! Update: I've created a separate page to hold the download link
I received a patch from Imobach González Sosa to allow the Dynamic JavaScript Tabs code to support more than one tab container set on a single page. I've applied the patch and this is version 1.0.2! Thanks Imobach! Update: I've created a separate page to hold the download link
There's a bug in the Dynamic JavaScript Tabs code that I wrote. If you have "too many" tabs then they go onto a new line and look really ugly. It's a CSS issue that I haven't solved yet.. Anyone out there have any idea why I can't have 7 tabs? If you do, I'd appreciate a pointer! Update I've now worked out what it is and I'm being brain dead :) I set the width… continue reading.
Using the Dynamic JavaScript Tabs in CMS Made Simple has shown up a small bug if you include the tabs.js file on a page that does not have an element with an id of "tabcontainer". Hence, I've released version 1.0.1 to fix this. No new features have been added. Update: I've created a separate page to hold the download link
This is some code that I wrote to create dynamic tabs. I use it for forms where I have a lot of fields and a good percentage are "advanced" or otherwise not important enough to have visible immediately. The CSS is based on ideas from Silverorange Labs and the JS code is mine. The code is released under the MIT license which basically means you can do what you like with it as long as… continue reading.
Rob Allen is a sofware consultant and developer concentrating on HTTP APIs. He develops in PHP, Python and other interesting languages, contributing to rst2pdf, Slim Framework, Apache OpenWhisk amongst other OSS projects. Based in Worcester, UK, he runs Nineteen Feet and is the author of Zend Framework in Action.
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