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Bruce Axtens

Programmed Canon Canola calculators in 1977. Assorted platforms and languages ever since. Assisting with HOPL.info. I am NOT looking for work -- I've got more than enough to do.

Perth, WA Australia Joined on Feb 23, 2019 https://codeaholic.blogspot.com

Education

A few diplomas.

Work

Software Engineer at [Daisy Digital](https://daisydigital.com.au/)

Lychen

V8 in a command line tool, accessing C# objects via ClearScript

C# • 1 star

Ada, Assembler, BASIC, C, C#, Clipper, COBOL, dBase, Delphi, Euphoria, Forth, Fortran, JavaScript, Modula-2, Peleton, Perl, SNOBOL4, Tcl.

اردو ، کچھ نہ کچھ
Tok Pisin, liklik.

google-apps-script, dotnet-script, C#

Google Sheets add-ins.
Converting amorphous JSON data to SQL Server tables.
(I consult for a Google Ads reseller, so all sorts of things e.g. GoogleSERP)

Opinions, help with obscure issues with projects, help with problem solving, legacy data conversions, DOS languages and tools

157 posts published

147 comments written

18 tags followed

Mar 9

"COBOL: you're thinking about it wrong"

1 min read

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Feb 8

How to do I purge the LiteSpeed cache using WordPress's REST API?

#wordpress #litespeed #rest

1 min read

Jan 27

In WooCommerce, where do I get more detail about the dtwpb_single_product_page?

#wordpress #woocommerce

1 min read

Dec 16 '22

Need REST access to information available in XML dump of website

#woocommerce #wordpress

1 min read

Dec 6 '22

Advent of Code 2022 (Day 1)

#adventofcode #8th

2 min read

Aug 6 '22

Hey, programming language creators ...

#programming

1 min read

Jul 29 '22

COBOL on Exercism is live!

1 min read

Jul 18 '22

How to enable AverageCpcMicros on GenerateHistoricalMetrics in V11's KeywordPlanService?

#googleads

1 min read

Jul 13 '22

Google.Protobuf.dll is right next to my .dll but it is not being found or loaded

#csharp #googleads

1 min read

Jul 8 '22

Test Driven Design in COBOL

#cobol

1 min read

Apr 14 '22

Google Sheets setValues anomaly?

#javascript #googleappsscript #googlesheets

1 min read

Mar 24 '22

My first post on Tealfeed

#watercooler #career

1 min read

Mar 18 '22

As soon as I put in a "data-client-token", the PayPal button refuses draw. Any idea why?

#paypal #javascript

1 min read

Dec 9 '21

Extracting example SQL statements from a log

#deno #javascript #sql

3 min read

Dec 8 '21

What are the gotchas when converting a T-SQL statement into a JavaScript RegExp?

#javascript #regex #deno #tsql

1 min read

Oct 8 '21

How to retrieve a company's recent posts in LinkedIn?

#linkedin

1 min read

Sep 17 '21

Google Drive: Some users have explicit permissions, and some have inherited permissions. Can I tell the difference?

#googledrive #googleappsscript

1 min read

Sep 10 '21

Wordpress says, "rest_upload_sideload_error" for a recognized type in an image upload from Google Apps Script. Why?

#help #wordpress #googlecloud

1 min read

Sep 8 '21

How do I set up VSCode to edit typescript targeting ES3 and using custom @types?

#help #typescript #vscode

1 min read

Sep 2 '21

Wordpress API request problem.

#help #wordpress #http

2 min read

May 5 '21

[Twitch.tv] Half an hour of Exercism

#twitch #programming

1 min read

Mar 4 '21

Punctuation in programming languages

#javascript #programming #debugging #sleeplessness

1 min read

Feb 4 '21

How to generate 3D chart with doughnut hole in Charts Service using Google Apps Script?

#help #javascript #googleappsscript #googlesheets

1 min read

Feb 4 '21

How do I get see the zero value in a Google Sheets Chart?

#help #googlesheets #googleappsscript #javascript

1 min read

Jan 27 '21

COBOL gets a hip replacement

#cobol #legacy

1 min read

Dec 7 '20

Generating ES3 from Typescript?

#typescript #javascript

1 min read

Nov 16 '20

Sometimes the Typescript CLI seems strangely opaque

#help #typescript

1 min read

Nov 9 '20

How to get Google Apps Script to tell Google Docs to bold, italic, strikethrough and underline from a JSON representation?

#googleappsscript #javascript #googledocs

1 min read

Oct 2 '20

Disabling and re-enabling a button in Google Apps Script

#javascript #googleappsscript #typescript

2 min read

Oct 2 '20

Reinstalling Xubuntu after a failed disk copy

#linux #grub

1 min read

Sep 24 '20

Can IIS customTags access items other than the attribute of the tag?

1 min read

Aug 26 '20

Another older language: BLISS

#bliss #legacy

1 min read

Aug 25 '20

Another older language: RPG - Report Program Generator

#legacy #rpg #kotlin #java

1 min read

Aug 19 '20

Reverse Proxying Facebook

#urlrewriting #javascript #iis

2 min read

Aug 19 '20

Using UrlRewrite to inject scripts into web pages

#todayilearned #javascript #urlrewrite

2 min read

Aug 13 '20

How to add Tracing to Windows Server 2012 R2 under Azure

#azure #iis #tracing

1 min read

Aug 12 '20

How do I embed javascript into an IIS UrlRewrite rule?

#iis #urlrewriting #javascript

1 min read

Aug 11 '20

Need help with IIS UrlRewriting (again)

#iis #urlrewrite

1 min read

Aug 6 '20

They're still talking COBOL

#cobol #legacy

1 min read

Aug 5 '20

IIS UrlRewrite: How to rewrite from just a domain to domain and path

#urlrewrite #iis

1 min read

Jul 30 '20

toTimeString(), a JavaScript function to make sense of millisecond values

#javascript

1 min read

Jul 26 '20

A simple metrics (invocation count, run-time) tool in JavaScript/TypeScript/GoogleAppsScript

#typescript #javascript #googleappsscript

2 min read

Jul 24 '20

A Me() function for JavaScript and Google Apps Script

#googleappsscript #javascript

1 min read

Jul 17 '20

Now need help setting up a reverse proxy in IIS

#iis #reverseproxy

2 min read

Jul 16 '20

Need help with NGINX

#nginx #networking

1 min read

Jul 15 '20

In a non-UI application, how do I handle “The calling thread cannot access this object because a different thread owns it”

#csharp #clearscript

1 min read

Jun 26 '20

Sometimes JavaScript arrays don't compare

#todayilearned #javascript

1 min read

Jun 25 '20

Can a paragraph inserted automatically after the insertion of a table be addressed programmatically?

#javascript #googleappsscript #googledocs

1 min read

Jun 17 '20

How to pre-dimension a 2D array in JavaScript

#todayilearned #javascript

1 min read

Jun 15 '20

Another random string generator

#deno #typescript #javascript

1 min read

Jun 14 '20

Words that end with -ism (another Quora question)

#deno #javascript

1 min read

Jun 14 '20

However, the Deno community chat is on discord

#todayilearned #discord #deno #javascript

1 min read

Jun 13 '20

There's a Spectrum chat for Deno

#deno #spectrumchat

1 min read

Jun 11 '20

Learning Deno and liking what I see

#todayilearned #deno

1 min read

Jun 10 '20

Doodling in C# at Quora

#csharp

2 min read

Jun 3 '20

JavaScript polymorphism in Google Apps Script

#todayilearned #javascript #googleappsscript

2 min read

Jun 1 '20

Writing a COM DLL in C# and interfacing with JavaScript

#todayilearned #legacy #csharp #javascript

3 min read

May 19 '20

Try It Online

#todayilearned #scripting #languages

1 min read

May 18 '20

https://HOPL.info -- certificate installed!

#hopl #programminglanguages

1 min read

Apr 25 '20

With Google Apps Script going to V8, whither ts2gas?

#help #googleappsscript #javascript #googlesheets

1 min read

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