It is always easy to assume that you've understood something before someone showed you the correct solution. When I tried to follow someone's tutorial on how to create REST APIs using node.js and express.js, I found out I didn't get REST APIs completely right. I have also found out a few more things on the side, which I will also be sharing in this blog.

There are plenty of companies researching into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning. Products such as Google Now, Siri and Cortana are all examples of combinations these. Apart from these big players, the trend is moving toward "vague" software usages, where the user specify something without being very exact. From these non-deterministic instructions, the software will be able to understand and execute and product the correct results. The following are just two examples I came across recently, both are pretty cool.

Started working on a existing project built using MEAN.IO, and Mongoose framework was used as well. I found its documentation a little confusing, so here's what I found out after doing some research.

I have already blogged about bash alternatives, Fish shell and Zsh in my previous blog here. I have only started using Zsh recently due to recommendations from a colleague, so thought I'd give it a try. This blog is mainly focusing on how to make Zsh look nice, so no tutorial on installing it.

A lot of people talks about the benefits of Test-Driven Development, how great it is when you compare it with non-test driven development. People would give a massive list of advantages of using TDD. For me these are the core reasons:

Came across this free app testing tool today, currently not much use for me as I mainly work on web related projects. But hopefully will be working on mobile projects in the future and this will be very useful. Just want to mention that this is a automation test framework from what I have seen so far, so not meant to be used to do manual testing.

Vue-strap is a repository that contains a set of native Vue.js components based on Bootstrap's markup and CSS. This is all very well and good, however, the second I tried to use this I came across issues.

I ran into this problem where we wanted to strip away the url of different sites to its root url. On top of that I also wanted to remove anything before the domain name, for example for staging.domain.com I only want domain.com from it.

Came across something called Fish Shell today, and after Google search took me to this page on unix-shells I realised how many different variation there are I can choose from. Each having their benefits, so far it seems ZSH has very good customisability and Fish Shell has very good out of the box experience with no configurations.

I was working with replacing strings using Regular Expression today and I found this amazing tools which saved me a lot of trouble. It allow custom text string to perform the regular expression on, and you can toggle between 3 different regular expression syntaxes: PHP, JavaScript and Python. There are also useful tips on the right hand side as well as a regex syntax look up table. Overall, a very handy free tool.