When you use Visual Studio Code on Windows, one handy feature is you can always call it from the command line by typing "code ." (without the quotes) in the folder where you want to work on. But when you try that on macOS Terminal, this is what you get: zsh: command not found: code Not to worry, the same feature can be had on macOS but it's just not installed by default. In order to … [Read more...]
How to Get Application Pool Identity Password With AppCmd
Typically, web application is run using ApplicationPoolIdentity on IIS. However, for various reasons, it's very common to find a large corporation uses a service account to run the application pool. Sometimes the challenge comes when you need to move the website to a different server and you're not given the proper credential to set it up on the new environment. What's worse, it's also not … [Read more...]
How to Migrate IIS Websites to a Different Server
Setting up a website on IIS is very easy to do. However, it can get very tedious when we have migrate multiple websites from one server to another. For a new server, the easiest to migrate all those settings of course is to clone the server and then we can reconfigure the IP addresses for each web instance from IIS on the new server. But what if that option is not possible? In this post, we'll … [Read more...]
How to Use RegEx to Replace Text in JavaScript
Just to build on top of the code from the previous post. This time, there is a page on a Web Forms application with a text that needs to be eliminated, but we no longer have the ability to re-compile. Fortunately, the change is cosmetic so we can resort to using plain vanilla JavaScript to solve this. Again, the provided HTML, although it was from a real legacy application, it has been cut … [Read more...]
How to Get HTML Elements with textContent in JavaScript
This is a short instruction on how to identify an HTML element based on a specific string that can be searched using textContent property. It's best to demonstrate the method with an example. Using the HTML page below, we are going to search for a text "Search This!" and select the whole row and change the background color to maroon. First of all, we are going to create a simple page using … [Read more...]