JavaScript Objects Deep Dive: Object Property Setters and Getters

Most people don't realize JavaScript has object property setters and getters or accessor methods.  When an object has a setter only it is a write only property, when it has a getter only method that it is a read only property.  If a property has both then it is a read/write property.  A perfect example is if you are working with a private property in JavaScript which has the $ prefix in front of it.

Let's say you have an object with a private property $n like the example below:

        var game = {

            $n: "Awesome Game!",

            get name() { return this.$n}
        };

The code above only has a getter name that exposes the private property $n when you console.log you should get value of the $n like the code snippet below

Iaas With AWS: Create An Application Load Balancer (Host)

 In the previous post we went over how to create a Application Load Balancer, based on routes in the URL.  In this post we are going to change the rules so that it directs traffic based on host names.  For example we could have acmebanking.com route to target group 1 and accounts.acmebanking.com route to target group 2.  It's the same concept as the previous setup but instead of routes, we are using hostnames instead.

In order to implement this solution we need to setup a record in Route 53, which is AWS domain registration service.  You can follow along with the DNS names, but if you have a hostname registered with AWS that's even better.

1. So the first thing you want to do is go to Route 53 dashboard, go to Hosted Zones

git & github: Sync Your Local Repository With A github Repository

In the previous post we created a local git repository, in this post we are going to create a remote repository in github and link it to the local repository that we created.

Here are the steps to create a new repository in github:

1.  Log into your github account and click on the "New" button next to the text "Repositories"

Bootstrap 4: Grid System Cheat Sheet

One of the main concept of working with Bootstrap is the Grid system.  It could be intimidating at first to work with the Grid system.  But the system is quite elegant and simple solution.

The most important thing you have to remember about the grid system is that it divides the page into 12 columns, and it is responsive meaning it will adjust to the size of the client's screen.

You can control the size of the column with the .col-sm, .col-md, .col-lg, .col-xl, which translates to small, medium, large, and extra large screens.  In addition to the screen size you can also control the with of the column with the -n at the end of class attribute.  For example if you want a column for a small screen to span three columns it would be .col-sm-3.

Here is the cheat sheet, I am going to use color coding for the different sizes.

Small - Green
Medium - Orange
Large - Red
Extra Large - Blue

Docker : Command to See What Containers Are Running

In our previous blog posts we ran containers with the Fedora and CentOS images.  In this blog we are going to run a command to see which containers are running in our host system.  To get a list of all the containers running on our host Ubuntu system we type in the command docker ps -a command.

JavaScript Basics : The while loop

The while loop statement in JavaScript simply executes a statement block until a condition is not true anymore the syntax for the while loop is as follow

while (expression is true)
{
     execute these statements
}

The while loop is an iterative loop if the condition is true and the statements are executed, it starts at the top of the loop again and executes until the expression is false.  Therefore, there's a potential for an infinite loop.

Iaas With AWS: Create An Application Load Balancer (Routing)

 In the previous post we went over how to create a Network Load Balancer, in this post we are going to create one of types of load balancer AWS offers.  We are going to create a Application Load Balancer, this balancer  is designed to work best with the typical line of business web applications.  It deals mostly with the requests/response scenarios on the web, therefore it supports the HTTP, and HTTPS protocols exclusively.  It can be setup to respond to the routes that configured or the hosts.  It all depends on how your web applications serves the client.  In a way it's the easiest load balancer type to understand because it deals with headers, URLs,  routes,  parameters, query strings and etc.

Before we create the load balancer we need to create more than one instances with a web server because we need to test that the load balancer is able to switch.

1. Create four instances with the user data to create Apache Web Servers with these commands in the User Data for instance, if you need the full instruction on how to create instances with User Data you can read this post . 

git & github: Create a Local NorthwindCafe git Repository

In this blog post we will create a Git & Github repository for the Northwind Cafe application that we've been working on.

First let's create a git local repository

1. Follow the steps on this blog post to create an empty NorthindCafe in git repository using Visual Studio Hour 1: Create ASP.NET Core Project From Scratch

JavaScript Basics : do/while Loop

The do/while loop is similar to the while loop.  The difference is that the first the loop expression is tested after the do statement block is executed at least once.  For example let's use our countdown example again.

If we have the code below the countdown displays the same results as the output.  However, the first iteration is performed without a evaluation of the expression.  It's not until the countdown is 9 that the while part of the loop kicks in.

Docker : Pull The Latest CentOS Image Into A Ubuntu Server

The beauty of Docker is that you can run a very lightweight image of another Linux distro on your host system.  In this post we will be pulling the latest image of CentOS into our docker container on our Ubuntu server.