Introduction Neo4j is a really cool, really rad graph database that has the clubs pumpin’. Okay, yes, computers has a different definition of “cool” and “rad” (especially RAD), but Neo4j is quite funky nonetheless. Building on Neo4j’s aforementioned funkiness is…
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Exporting Cypher queries from the Neo4j browser
Introduction Executive summary: need to export your Neo4j favourites to co-workers, friends and family? This article provides a JavaScript solution, as well as a Chrome extension, to do so. Neo4j is a really cool, fast and powerful graph database. It…
Tagged with: Chrome, database, export, extension, graph, Javascript, neo4j
Posted in Javascript, Technology
Posted in Javascript, Technology
NPM in a corporate world
Spoilers: this article makes an incredibly basic clone of an NPM repo, with just the dependencies required for the job required of NPM, then makes it available for developers to run an npm install on. The Problem It seems like every…
Tagged with: ant, build, corporate, enterprise, front-end, grunt, Javascript, node.js, npm
Posted in Front-end, Javascript, Technology
Posted in Front-end, Javascript, Technology
SMS – the Pot of Gold over the Rainbow Nation
Introduction R15 000 a song. How’s that sound? It’s not some new RIAA settlement. It’s something far closer to home. The SMS, or Short Message Service, has been wildly successful over its history. Initially conceived of as a way for…
Lining the Terrain
Introduction For various reasons, I need to draw some lines on terrain in Unity. I’m not sure if these are the algorithms I’ll end up using, but given that I couldn’t find anything but pseudo-code for them (okay, I didn’t…
Tagged with: 3d, algorithms, graphics, procedural-generation, roads, splatmap, terrain, unity
Posted in Unity
Posted in Unity
“Don’t look, just fly.”
So I’ve recently had a need to have a look at this Angular 2 business (in plain JavaScript, the tutorial has not been fun translating TypeScript to JavaScript as I went). (Okay, it’s been a bit of fun) The days…
Tagged with: angular, corporate, http, https, npm, proxy, ssl, the-pain, why-do-i-have-to-go-through-this-to-do-my-job
Posted in Javascript, Technology
Posted in Javascript, Technology
IntelliJ says Maven’s M2_HOME system property is not set
And it’s right! To be fair, IntelliJ should really set this kind of thing up for us (given that it’s really not that hard), but I guess we should allow it a quirk every so often. I’ve found I run…
#OpAfrica hits vreport
Super-brief introduction So, #OpAfrica are being very busy little bees. I’m trying to mentally process the data dumped from the Water Affairs leak (both in terms of scale and apparent incompetence), so just to be thorough here’s a look at…
GCIS Data Breach
Introduction The GCIS is the Government Communication and Information System. It’s not entirely clear from its name what that means. From their website, To provide professional services, to set and influence adherence to standards for an effective government communication system,…
Quacking up – time with the QuackBox
VR Google Cardboard appeared on the scene quite a while ago. Ages actually. But actually doing things like sourcing lenses is a whole lot of work, so something I was naturally disinclined to do. Naturally, I forgot all about it…