Author: Andreas Katzian

• Custom JSON API Routes in WordPress Plugins

  Custom routes in WordPress plugins can significantly enhance your website’s functionality, allowing you to create unique and dynamic interactions with your users. By leveraging the WordPress REST API, you can expose custom endpoints for various purposes, such as communicating with a front-end application, fetching data from external sources, or building a proxy to other services…

  April 7, 2023

  Code

  JavaScript, JSON API, Plugin, WordPress

• Automated Hubspot Email with Line Items Data

  When creating transactional/automated email templates in Hubspot, you are mainly limited to displaying information via personalization tokens. However, the “Programmable Email Beta” introduced additional capabilities to add your custom code and enrich your email content with further data.

  February 17, 2023

  Code

  HubL, Hubspot

• Export and Backup Your Data and Files from Slack

  We decided to opt-out of the very noisy universe of Slack in favor of native frictionless messaging, note-taking, and sharing tools. So after navigating the Slack Data Export Jungle and finally exporting data as JSON files, we created a handy Python script to download and backup all shared files, so you don’t have to.

  July 2, 2022

  Code, Process

  Backup, export, JSON, Python, slack

• Running Python Azure Function Locally on an M1

  Currently, the Azure Function Tools do not support Python functions on an M1. There is an ongoing process to update the tools in the future. When trying to start the python function, you will receive an error message like the following: Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Script: Architecture Arm64 is not supported for language python. Meanwhile, it is necessary to implement a workaround…

  June 14, 2022

  Code

  Azure, Azure Function, Mac M1, Python

• Hubspot Emails with Custom Data

  Using the standard email feature from Hubspot and working with the Drag&Drop editor is pretty fine. However, you may want to create some more sophisticated emails for your customers in some situations including complex data.

  June 1, 2022

  Code, Process

  Email, Hubspot, Node.js, Workflow

• Running Rake Tasks with Cron and File Locks

  Rake tasks within Ruby on Rails are compelling. It doesn’t matter if you need to do some maintenance, cleanup or complex data processing, rake tasks will emerge in your system as it is becoming bigger and more complex. More importantly, you certainly want to execute these tasks regularly and in the background. cron is a wonderful tool to execute…

  November 29, 2021

  Code

  Cron, rails, Rake

• Build Docker images with GitLab CI on AWS ECR

  GitLab CI is a great way to automate testing, building and deploying of almost any application. Recently we came across the requirement to setup a repository with several definitions of Docker container images. For sure we wanted to use GitLab CI to also automate the building of our images and to push them to our…

  February 12, 2019

  Code

  AWS, Container, Continuous Integration, Docker, ECR, GitLab

• Action Cable on specific page within Ruby on Rails

  Using page specific action cable functionality within ruby on rails comes in very handy sometimes. It allows you to target given functionality to specific pages and controllers. Furthermore, it reduces the number of open web sockets, which again reduces your server load.

  August 19, 2017

  Code

  actioncable, coffeescript, devise, rails, ruby

• Formatting number input with Rails, Bootstrap, SimpleForm and autoNumeric.js

  Often you want to format your number inputs in a pretty and proper way for your users. Using Bootstrap and SimpleForm within your Rails application is a good way to start, but how will you deal with number formatting within your input field for decimal and thousands separators?

  June 21, 2016

  Code

  currency, formatting, rails, SimpleForm

• Optimizing png file size for mobile websites on your mac

  Got a bad rating on your website site speed (e.g. from Google PageSpeed Insights)? Did you observe the advise “Properly formatting and compressing images can save many bytes of data”? Don’t panic, here you’ll find a handy solution to optimize your png files on your mac.

  June 29, 2015

  Code, Process