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.

I recently needed to convert PDF documents which contains tables. From what I could find, there are only two good solutions out there.

Linux is still something that's new to me, I know the basics like to install some software I need to run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install in the terminal. But I never really knew how to 'undo' these actions, today when I was trying to fix another bug, I came across the following ways to uninstall the software are installed in Linux terminal.