In 2008 the first digital currencies emerged in the form of Bitcoins. At first, it was a novelty and few really took it seriously. This was evident in its reception to the global economy. Although many people bought up the currency it still didn’t fare well in the markets and was considered volatile for several years. Only in 2017 did cryptocurrency become more valid and realistic. …
Category: Web Development
Torbjorn sharing work experience around web development, and digital transformation in a digital world
In this how-to, I will show how I implemented HMAC in a Cloud Function that acts as a webhook using the node Express application framework. The focus of this article is how I implemented HMAC and …
The fast development of the internet brought new ways in which businesses are conducted. What was unimaginable only a few years ago, today is the norm. Businesses around the globe have seen new opportunities and decided …
In this how-to article, I’m going to show how you can secure your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Functions HTTP trigger, it has not been that straight forward to secure HTTP trigger in Cloud Functions in the …
This short how-to will explain how I implemented a toggle function with Angular and Firestore, I had this user requirement to create a button and then by clicking the button the color of the button and …
I have created a Cloud Function that uses the NewsAPI to read the latest news and store the news in a Firestore collection. To read the news links I created an Angular app to read the news. …
Regardless of where you hosting your WordPress site, you can use Cloud SQL to be your backend database. In this How-to, I will explain the steps I took to migrate from the WordPress local MySQL to …
There are times when you write a cloud function that you need to protect an API key, account information user id and password, or other sensitive data. In the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) you can use …
Bitcoin halving is expected to take place around May 12th, 2020, A bitcoin halving is an event when miners receive 50% fewer bitcoins for verifying transactions. Bitcoin halvings are scheduled to occur once every 210,000 blocks until the …
With our current situation with the Covid-19 virus affecting our lives, I can not spend so much time outside cycling as I normally do, as there are restrictions on how where to go. I do have …
I had this use case when I read data from a Firestore collection, some fields were empty, when the data was going to the UI I did not want to display the empty fields. …