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Back in the early 2000s if you were a Java developer working on building web apps, chances are you were using Apache Struts. It was the de facto, go-to web framework of it’s time, pretty much used everywhere by everyone (it was even noticeable online for it’s pattern of using ‘*.do’ URLs for its Actions). …
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Having spent some time in the past building an implementation of Donald Knuth’s Algorithm X in Java to solve Sudoku Puzzles, I recently wondered what it would take to modify it to generate new puzzles. If you missed my previous posts on this investigation, see: It turns out having a working solver is part of …
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The nth-child CSS psuedoclass allows you to apply a style to child elements in lists, such as <li> items or table <tr> rows or <td> cells. I’ve been working on a React frontend client to a Sudoku puzzle solver which is deployed as am AWS Lambda. It’s easy to build a table of <input> fields, …
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Most errors on AWS are explicit and self explanatory, but once in a while you run into something that tells you something went wrong, but not how to fix it. When setting up an S3 bucket to serve a static website, I got this error being returned as 301s for referenced files: <Error><Code>PermanentRedirect</Code><Message>The bucket you …