Author Archives: lysender

Learn Stock Trading By Virtual Trading From Investagrams

Posted on May 28, 2018 by lysender

As a complete newbie on stock trading, I really have no idea on how to buy or sell stocks. Fortunately, a good friend of mine recommended virtual trading to learn how it works. He recommended Investagrams and I immediately signed … Continue reading →

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My Journey To Stock Market Begins

Posted on May 26, 2018 by lysender

Few years ago, I always dream of having a retirement strategy through stock market investments but either I have no extra money to fund my investments or I have difficulty signing up for an online broker. Now that I’m already … Continue reading →

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Using Angular-CLI with Yarn

Posted on May 17, 2018 by lysender

Recently, I have switched from npm to yarn, however, it seems that my Angular CLI still uses npm. To configure Angular CLI to use yarn globally, just run this: This is assuming you already installed the Angular CLI. That’s it! … Continue reading →

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Angular 6 Now Available

Posted on May 17, 2018 by lysender

I got a very short window of opportunity to update my dead projects to the latest NodeJS and Angular and I just checked that Angular 6 is now available. My portfolio site, which was built on Angular 4.4 has been … Continue reading →

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ExpressJS – Serve a Google Verification Page

Posted on May 16, 2018 by lysender

My portfolio website is using Angular served by ExpressJS. For more than six months, I forgot to check my Google Webmaster tool and it shows that I don’t own the site anymore. What a shame! I have to verify the … Continue reading →

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RubyMine 2018 theme is too flat, how to bring back the old theme?

Posted on May 12, 2018 by lysender

So if you just installed the latest RubyMine for 2018 and installed the Material UI plugin, the whole RubyMine interface will use the Material design for the UI which means, everything is flat. If you don’t like it and prefer … Continue reading →

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Cannot Edit SOA for SSN PRN?

Posted on April 21, 2018 by lysender

Have you tried using SSS PRN PRN (Payment Reference Number) utility but unable to edit it for the current period? Did you get the “Web page blocked” error when trying to edit your SOA (Statement of Account) to change the … Continue reading →

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Inserting page breaks for printing or PDF via HTML

Posted on January 12, 2018 by lysender

So we have a web invoice which is also converted into PDF. When line items section becomes too tall (so many items), the generated PDF from HTML (via wkhtmltopdf) breaks some of the lines in the summary section and is … Continue reading →

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HTML to PDF – Using custom web fonts

Posted on January 2, 2018 by lysender

We currently have a working HTML to PDF converter in our project usually used to generate PDF invoices. However, a new requirement requires using a font not usually found on the stock fonts. At this point, I realized that our … Continue reading →

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MySQL 5.7+ STRICT mode

Posted on November 6, 2017 by lysender

If you have a project that is so old and so broken but you have to maintain anyway, but you are developing locally using MySQL 5.7+, just run this on your MySQL console to remind yourself how poorly coded your … Continue reading →

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