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

Apr 26 '24

Awesome COBOL!

#cobol

1 min read

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Bruce Axtens

Mar 9 '23

"COBOL: you're thinking about it wrong"

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Feb 8 '23

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

#gratitude

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jan 27 '23

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

#wordpress #woocommerce

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Dec 16 '22

Need REST access to information available in XML dump of website

#woocommerce #wordpress

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Dec 6 '22

Advent of Code 2022 (Day 1)

#watercooler

2 min read

Bruce Axtens

Aug 6 '22

Hey, programming language creators ...

#programming

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jul 29 '22

COBOL on Exercism is live!

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jul 18 '22

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

#googleads

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

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

Bruce Axtens

Jul 8 '22

Test Driven Design in COBOL

#cobol

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Apr 14 '22

Google Sheets setValues anomaly?

#javascript #googleappsscript #googlesheets

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Mar 24 '22

My first post on Tealfeed

#watercooler #career

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

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

Bruce Axtens

Dec 9 '21

Extracting example SQL statements from a log

#deno #javascript #sql

3 min read

Bruce Axtens

Dec 8 '21

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

#javascript #regex #deno #tsql

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Oct 8 '21

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

#linkedin

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

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

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

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Sep 8 '21

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

#help #typescript #vscode

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Sep 2 '21

Wordpress API request problem.

#help #wordpress #http

2 min read

Bruce Axtens

May 5 '21

[Twitch.tv] Half an hour of Exercism

#twitch #programming

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Mar 4 '21

Punctuation in programming languages

#javascript #programming #debugging #sleeplessness

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

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

Bruce Axtens

Feb 4 '21

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

#help #googlesheets #googleappsscript #javascript

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jan 27 '21

COBOL gets a hip replacement

#cobol #legacy

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Dec 7 '20

Generating ES3 from Typescript?

#typescript #javascript

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Nov 16 '20

Sometimes the Typescript CLI seems strangely opaque

#help #typescript

1 min read

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

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Oct 2 '20

Disabling and re-enabling a button in Google Apps Script

#javascript #googleappsscript #typescript

2 min read

Bruce Axtens

Oct 2 '20

Reinstalling Xubuntu after a failed disk copy

#linux #grub

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Sep 24 '20

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

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Aug 26 '20

Another older language: BLISS

#bliss #legacy

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Aug 25 '20

Another older language: RPG - Report Program Generator

#legacy #rpg #kotlin #java

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Aug 19 '20

Reverse Proxying Facebook

#urlrewriting #javascript #iis

2 min read

Bruce Axtens

Aug 19 '20

Using UrlRewrite to inject scripts into web pages

#todayilearned #javascript #urlrewrite

2 min read

Bruce Axtens

Aug 13 '20

How to add Tracing to Windows Server 2012 R2 under Azure

#azure #iis #tracing

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Aug 12 '20

How do I embed javascript into an IIS UrlRewrite rule?

#iis #urlrewriting #javascript

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Aug 11 '20

Need help with IIS UrlRewriting (again)

#iis #urlrewrite

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Aug 6 '20

They're still talking COBOL

#cobol #legacy

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Aug 5 '20

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

#urlrewrite #iis

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jul 30 '20

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

#javascript

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jul 26 '20

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

#typescript #javascript #googleappsscript

2 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jul 24 '20

A Me() function for JavaScript and Google Apps Script

#googleappsscript #javascript

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jul 17 '20

Now need help setting up a reverse proxy in IIS

#iis #reverseproxy

2 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jul 16 '20

Need help with NGINX

#nginx #networking

1 min read

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

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jun 26 '20

Sometimes JavaScript arrays don't compare

#todayilearned #javascript

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jun 25 '20

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

#javascript #googleappsscript #googledocs

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jun 17 '20

How to pre-dimension a 2D array in JavaScript

#todayilearned #javascript

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jun 15 '20

Another random string generator

#deno #typescript #javascript

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jun 14 '20

Words that end with -ism (another Quora question)

#deno #javascript

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jun 14 '20

However, the Deno community chat is on discord

#todayilearned #discord #deno #javascript

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jun 13 '20

There's a Spectrum chat for Deno

#deno #spectrumchat

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jun 11 '20

Learning Deno and liking what I see

#todayilearned #deno

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jun 10 '20

Doodling in C# at Quora

#csharp

2 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jun 3 '20

JavaScript polymorphism in Google Apps Script

#todayilearned #javascript #googleappsscript

2 min read

Bruce Axtens

Jun 1 '20

Writing a COM DLL in C# and interfacing with JavaScript

#todayilearned #legacy #csharp #javascript

3 min read

Bruce Axtens

May 19 '20

Try It Online

#todayilearned #scripting #languages

1 min read

Bruce Axtens

May 18 '20

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

#hopl #programminglanguages

1 min read