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/)

Bruce Axtens

Aug 6

Hey, programming language creators ...

#programming

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What was your win this week?

Getting the COBOL track going on Exercism. It was more "our" ...

Jul 31

Where do you stand on "magic" within languages and frameworks?

As the team works through putting COBOL onto Exercism I'm rem...

Jul 21

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

So the "solution" turned out to be this: Include Google.Ads.G...

Jul 18

What coding concept or practice seem commonly understood, but you never learned?

How about this? Task task = GoogleWebAuthorizat...

Mar 24

What's a new thing you've started using recently?

Tealfeed, "a global community of knowledge seekers who want t...

Mar 24

What coding concept or practice seem commonly understood, but you never learned?

Today it hit me hard that I still haven't quite got my head a...

Mar 21

What is your best skill as a developer?

Creating problems. Sure, I could say that problem solving is ...

Mar 18

Should You Learn Deno in 2022?

The absence of a good library for talking to SQLServer is all...

Dec 9 '21

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 29

COBOL on Exercism is live!

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Jul 18

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

#googleads

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Jul 13

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

#csharp #googleads

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 8

Test Driven Design in COBOL

#cobol

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 14

Google Sheets setValues anomaly?

#javascript #googleappsscript #googlesheets

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Bruce Axtens

Mar 24

My first post on Tealfeed

#watercooler #career

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Bruce Axtens

Mar 18

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

#paypal #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Dec 9 '21

Extracting example SQL statements from a log

#deno #javascript #sql

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Bruce Axtens

Dec 8 '21

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

#javascript #regex #deno #tsql

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Bruce Axtens

Oct 8 '21

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

#linkedin

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Bruce Axtens

Sep 17 '21

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

#googledrive #googleappsscript

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Bruce Axtens

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

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Bruce Axtens

Sep 8 '21

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

#help #typescript #vscode

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Sep 2 '21

Wordpress API request problem.

#help #wordpress #http

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Bruce Axtens

May 5 '21

[Twitch.tv] Half an hour of Exercism

#twitch #programming

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Bruce Axtens

Mar 4 '21

Punctuation in programming languages

#javascript #programming #debugging #sleeplessness

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Bruce Axtens

Feb 4 '21

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

#help #javascript #googleappsscript #googlesheets

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Bruce Axtens

Feb 4 '21

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

#help #googlesheets #googleappsscript #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jan 27 '21

COBOL gets a hip replacement

#cobol #legacy

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Bruce Axtens

Dec 7 '20

Generating ES3 from Typescript?

#typescript #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Nov 16 '20

Sometimes the Typescript CLI seems strangely opaque

#help #typescript

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Bruce Axtens

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

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Bruce Axtens

Oct 2 '20

Disabling and re-enabling a button in Google Apps Script

#javascript #googleappsscript #typescript

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Bruce Axtens

Oct 2 '20

Reinstalling Xubuntu after a failed disk copy

#linux #grub

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Bruce Axtens

Sep 24 '20

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

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 26 '20

Another older language: BLISS

#bliss #legacy

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 25 '20

Another older language: RPG - Report Program Generator

#legacy #rpg #kotlin #java

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 19 '20

Reverse Proxying Facebook

#urlrewriting #javascript #iis

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 19 '20

Using UrlRewrite to inject scripts into web pages

#todayilearned #javascript #urlrewrite

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 13 '20

How to add Tracing to Windows Server 2012 R2 under Azure

#azure #iis #tracing

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 12 '20

How do I embed javascript into an IIS UrlRewrite rule?

#iis #urlrewriting #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 11 '20

Need help with IIS UrlRewriting (again)

#iis #urlrewrite

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 6 '20

They're still talking COBOL

#cobol #legacy

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Bruce Axtens

Aug 5 '20

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

#urlrewrite #iis

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 30 '20

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

#javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 26 '20

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

#typescript #javascript #googleappsscript

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 24 '20

A Me() function for JavaScript and Google Apps Script

#googleappsscript #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 17 '20

Now need help setting up a reverse proxy in IIS

#iis #reverseproxy

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Bruce Axtens

Jul 16 '20

Need help with NGINX

#nginx #networking

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Bruce Axtens

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

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 26 '20

Sometimes JavaScript arrays don't compare

#todayilearned #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 25 '20

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

#javascript #googleappsscript #googledocs

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 17 '20

How to pre-dimension a 2D array in JavaScript

#todayilearned #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 15 '20

Another random string generator

#deno #typescript #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 14 '20

Words that end with -ism (another Quora question)

#deno #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 14 '20

However, the Deno community chat is on discord

#todayilearned #discord #deno #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 13 '20

There's a Spectrum chat for Deno

#deno #spectrumchat

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 11 '20

Learning Deno and liking what I see

#todayilearned #deno

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 10 '20

Doodling in C# at Quora

#csharp

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 3 '20

JavaScript polymorphism in Google Apps Script

#todayilearned #javascript #googleappsscript

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Bruce Axtens

Jun 1 '20

Writing a COM DLL in C# and interfacing with JavaScript

#todayilearned #legacy #csharp #javascript

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Bruce Axtens

May 19 '20

Try It Online

#todayilearned #scripting #languages

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Bruce Axtens

May 18 '20

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

#hopl #programminglanguages

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 25 '20

With Google Apps Script going to V8, whither ts2gas?

#help #googleappsscript #javascript #googlesheets

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 23 '20

For those who learn COBOL

#legacy #cobol

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 23 '20

COBOL - not dead; not dying; not even idle (#4)

#legacy #cobol

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 17 '20

COBOL - not dead; not dying; not even idle (#3)

#cobol #legacy

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 16 '20

COBOL's 60th birthday

#cobol #legacy

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Bruce Axtens

Apr 16 '20

COBOL - not dead; not dying; not even idle (#2)

#language #cobol #legacy

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