In this post, I would like to share how to customize Express server in Sails.js version 0.10. Handling of the customMiddleware has slightly changed from Sails v0.9.x. In version 0.10 that method needs to be configured in http hook (not express hook, as in the …
When building HTML templates wiht Thymeleaf template engine, you may end up with a situation where an HTML element needs to have text coming from localization resources, but also it needs to have some additonal child elements which can't be replaced during template rendering. One of the examples …
In this post, I am sharing how to identify a Heroku dynos from within your application. In many cases, well written cloud applications does not need to know what Heroku dyno is handling a request. However, sometimes that knowledge is essential. That need has been addressed by Heroku team. The …
AngularJS provides currency formatting filter which converts numbers into locale specific currency string e.g. 123.50 number converts to $123.00 for en-US locale or 123,50 € for fr-FR locale. But what to do if I would like to perform currency formatting without decimal (cent) part e.g. $123 …
When you generate new Sails application, session use transient (aka session) cookies. In most cases web browsers normally delete transient cookies when the user closes the browser. As the cookie is deleted, users session is terminated. In some cases this is desired behaviour but sometimes it is required that session …
Among plenty of improvements, Java 8 came with a completely new API for dates, times, instants, and durations (java.time package). However, there are thousands of projects that use the legacy java.util.Date for date and time presentation purpose. As Oracle did not provide any direct way of converting …
In many situations you may need to use platform-dependent newline character in Java. There are several ways you can get that value, depending on the Java version you are using. System properties Java system properties always includes line.separator property which contains platform-dependent line separator (\n on UNIX and \r …