The snippet below will look inside directory /inputdir and archives the sub-directory called mydirectorywithfiles. The resulting tar file is written to /outdir/mytarfile.tar.gz.
Cloud, Javascript
Using OAuth2 token in GCP Storage API with nodejs
You can use short-lived OAuth2 tokens in many Google Cloud API calls, however you may run into some interesting limitations and quirks, more specifically in […]
Database, Javascript, MongoDB
Enabling TTL on MongoDB GridFS
Anything you store in MongoDB’s GridFS is stored in 2 collections. For instance if your files are loaded in a GridFS bucket called ‘images’ you […]
HTML, Javascript
Firefox OS – A simple No Nonsense Calculator
When I received my Geeksphone Keon last year (2013), I searched the Firefox Marketplace for a simple calculator, similar to the Calculator that comes with […]
HTML, Javascript
Total Mouse Control in Javascript
The following article was originally written back in 2006. The code example below shows you how you can include better mouse control over your web […]
HTML, Javascript, JSP
A complete AJAX example
There are several third party libraries that simplify the programming that is needed to make your web pages communicate with the server more dynamically, and […]