The last time I blogged on here was in July 2015. A lot has changed since then. I now work for Booz Allen Hamilton (since November 2017). I am currently working on project that uses Go (Golang) and React. This is probably one of the best projects I have worked…
I am currently learning how to use MongoDB and Node JS together and I was following along a tutorial but when it came to the point to start the MongoDB server, it kept failing by running mongod on the command line. The error I got was:$ mongod 2015-07-04T09:06:37.…
Before I begin, shout out to my co-worker Will for figuring this out.We have a directive where there are two select drop-downs that user can select. I wanted to create another directive that's on that same view to grab the two select values the user selected for the directive…
The company I work for, Fifth Tribe, teamed up with General Assembly and hosted a new initiative called Tek Feuds which is an event that uses the Oxford style of debating to create an environment that is fun and exciting but also educational on technical subjects.The first event was…
I was recently debugging an unusual issue where a user would upload a file, delete that file and then upload that same file again. The way I wrote the code was that I used some simple jQuery AJAX to post the file and notify the user their file had been…
When you are working with JSON and C# with DateTime objects, the serialized string of it looks like this:/Date(1425408717000)/In order to turn this into a usable JavaScript Date object you will need to strip out the non-numerical characters:var cSharpDate = /Date(1425408717000)/ var stripedCsharpDate = cSharpDate.replace(/[^0-9…
I work on several projects using ASP.NET MVC 4 along with Microsoft Visual Studio. When deploying projects to an IIS server I simply used the FTP publishing method. For some odd reason it always took a minute or so to deploy. I never really investigated why or attempted to…
I am currently hosting this blog on AWS EC2 with Bitnami Ghost. When I initially set it up Amazon had a public DNS which was not human friendly. I wanted to use my domain (amirsahib.com) as the actual url of my Ghost blog. After some Googling I found out…
I have blogged in the past on various blogs and being a web developer, always appreciated using blogging software. I first started out with bBlog in the early 2000s and then migrated over to WordPress. Since then I've worked on countless WordPress blogs sites, and later WordPress websites.I heard…