Author Archives: lysender

Introducing Price Stalker – PSE stock price alerting

Posted on September 9, 2018 by lysender

So I have this pet project that allows you to track stock price movements from PSE. Price Stalker’s primary focus is to deliver notifications/alerts about stock price movement of your favorite stocks at the Philippine Stocks Exchange through email or … Continue reading →

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Finally found a task scheduler/cron for Rails

Posted on August 25, 2018 by lysender

I have been working with a cron-like task scheduler in the past and among the very few options, we choose crono. It works because it allows us to run tasks at 10-second interval and as well as the regular daily/hourly/weekly … Continue reading →

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Docker Compose down does not remove volumes

Posted on August 6, 2018 by lysender

I was trying to fix a deployment issue on one of my Docker setup where source code is being pulled periodically from master branch inside a volume, however, I ended up having the same outdated branch over and over again. … Continue reading →

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Angular 6 – Cannot resolve crypto, fs, net, path, stream when building Angular

Posted on July 28, 2018 by lysender

My current setup is Angular 6.1.0 with Angular Universal too but the project is based on an old (dead) project which was built on Angular 5. Upon building the server side assets, the builder throws a lot of error saying … Continue reading →

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Angular 6.x – 404 page with correct header using Angular Universal

Posted on July 18, 2018 by lysender

Based on my previous post about adding a 404 page in Angular 4.x, I have added a tweak to return the correct 404 status code header. This process, however, requires the Angular Universal integration. This post assumes that you already … Continue reading →

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Angular 6 – Add scroll to top when route changes

Posted on July 1, 2018 by lysender

Since Angular apps are SPAs, the page does not reload when navigating through the application/website. If you happen to scroll to the bottom of the page and clicked a link, the next page will show the content near the bottom … Continue reading →

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Setting Title Tag for Angular Applications

Posted on July 1, 2018 by lysender

Due to the nature of Angular apps being SPAs (single page application), historically, changing title tag or meta tags are not supported by default. However, due to SEO reasons, these features were added and works best when used in Angular … Continue reading →

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Sweet Alert – Using Textarea as Content

Posted on July 1, 2018 by lysender

We used Sweet Alert JavaScript plugin as a beautiful replacement for JavaScript alert and confirmation popups. It supports showing input box too which is good when asking for feedback from users. In our case, we needed a textarea instead and … Continue reading →

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My First Month in Stock Market

Posted on June 21, 2018 by lysender

I started my first two weeks in stock market with so much hype, then I bought more that bring stress and sold and bought again bringing frustrations. However, there is no failure as I’ve learn so much from this experience. … Continue reading →

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Angular 6 – Configure Angular Universal with pm2

Posted on June 17, 2018 by lysender

Angular Universal allows Angular apps to be run in both the server and in the browser. Before, I used the plain Express server to serve the static Angular application and I used the pm2 tool to manage the server process. … Continue reading →

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