Recently in building out a dashboard to show the number of github issues for a given search, I wanted to show a circle containing a count. When we think about responsiveness in web pages we mostly think about making things that respond to a horizonal constraint. However, for a dashboard,…
A quick tip. If you're running karma tests via Firefox on Travis CI by default the Firefox version used is quite old (31 at time of writing). To always use the latest (current) version you can add this snippet to your .travis.yml. addons: firefox: latest This will keep your…
This will probably be of use to about 3 people, and I'm one of them. If you feel your eyes glazing over, don't fret and look at this kitten picture instead: The problem I wanted to add some content to both our docs (built via sphinx docs and written in…
In some recent code at work we're using fairly large strings for error descriptions. JavaScript has always made it hard to deal with long strings, especially when you need to format them across multiple lines. The solutions have always been that you need to concatenate multiple strings like so: var…
I recently noticed that under OSX Inkscape behaves strangely with multiple monitors. I thought I'd broken the installation as when launching Inkscape it opened and then the window immediately disappears. Fortunately there's a bug that's been filed here: XQuartz on OS X 10.9 and later: limited support for multi-monitor…
Recently working on some code I was doing some basic tests that checked for an exception being raised. The tests looked like this: def test_user_identification_is_valid_option(self): with self.assertRaises(ValueError): example_seller(products=[ 'id': 'hai', 'description': 'a description', 'recurrence': None, 'user_identification': True, }]) def test_…
I've just recently finished shaving about a billion yaks * to convert a React app over to use ES6 modules and classes so we can start living in the future that is ES6 with a sprinkling of ES7. * Might not be true Transpiling back to the present We're using babel via…
For the Payments Team's front-end projects we've just landed support for running the front-end unit tests using Sauce Labs. About Sauce Labs In case you've never heard of Sauce Labs (unlikely!) they provide access to a multitude of browser/platform combinations via vms so you can run your automated test…
Recently I've been working on a UI for credit-card payments. As part of this we needed some credit-card icons to show the card type as the user types in the number to the input field. In looking for existing iconography I either couldn't find exactly what I was looking for,…
Using docker and docker-compose to run a development environment can be a good way to have all your services connected and running together. I'm going to assume you've got a basic understanding of docker and how it works if not there's a good overview of what docker is here. We're…