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Andrew Fletcher
Regular expressions (regex) are extremely useful in extracting information from any text by searching for one or more matches of a specific search pattern. The basic anchors - ^ and $ expression action ^The matches any string that starts with The end$ matches a string that ends with end ^The end$ exact string match (starts and ends with The end) pragmatic matches any string that has the text pragmatic in it   The basic quantifiers — * + ? and...
Andrew Fletcher
Whilst updating nodejs and npm on a Centos 6 or 7 server running Apache, I...
Andrew Fletcher
The purple warning notification of annoyance recently came my way!  I...
Andrew Fletcher
I'm currently working on a project that requires login, register, forget...
Andrew Fletcher
iOS localization on the fly If you have added languages to your app......
Andrew Fletcher
Recently I had an error with a domain smtp server not recognising port 587.  To begin to test what was happening I wanted to get some key information about the server.  My tool of choice was the dig command.  Using the dig command: dig codebales.comUnderstanding a DNS look up results from Terminal using the dig command.  This command causes dig to look up the A record for the domain name codebales.com or whatever you enter. To do this dig starts by...
Andrew Fletcher
Updating Realm and RealmSwift from 5.5.x to 10.0.0 brought in the following...
Andrew Fletcher
After creating a new view with a @Binding string as follows struct EditRival:...
Andrew Fletcher
What to do when you want to filter a Realm object, using NSPredicate in...
Andrew Fletcher
Today while in Terminal, I ran a regular script pod update.  However, this...
Andrew Fletcher
I'm going to take you on a journey about adding a gradient tint to a background image.  The journey will go through text modifiers with regular and semibold font weights, and font colour.  Using an image from Unsplash.  Adding a black tint, then transform it to a gradient using a colour array.  If you get lost along the journey, the final result is available on GitHub. Level: beginner Previously I've looked into adding a tint overlay to a background image......
Andrew Fletcher
Creating a new SwiftUI project is a quick process.  There are already...
Andrew Fletcher
How to apply a gradient tint over a background image? Set the background...
Andrew Fletcher
For detailed notes regarding how to add custom fonts to your iOS app see...
Andrew Fletcher
Working on formatting the date in Xcode, and you come across the situation where...