Chuck Grimmett

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Category: TIL

  • Adding Months to a Calculated Date in Salesforce

    Adding Months to a Calculated Date in Salesforce

    Adding dates is tricky. Months have different numbers of days, so you can’t rely on just adding 30 days to get an extra month. You also can’t just add a certain number of months because formulas in Salesforce don’t auto increment the year. The solution is modular arithmetic and conditionals.

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  • Automating MySQL Backups with Gulp

    Automating MySQL Backups with Gulp

    No more forgetting to export the database regularly.

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  • Fixing s3_website Java 9 Error with jEnv

    Fixing s3_website Java 9 Error with jEnv

    s3_website doesn’t work with Java 9. Use jEnv to define an earlier version.

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  • Making line height work with spans

    Making line height work with spans

    Line height doesn’t work on spans by default

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  • d3.nest

    d3.nest

    Using d3.nest to transform stacked data.

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  • Giving Atom a try

    Giving Atom a try

    Switching IDEs after 10 years.

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  • Gulp and Sketch first use notes

    Gulp and Sketch first use notes

    Gulp and Sketch first use notes

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  • Jekyll 3.2 Undefined Method Downcase Error

    Jekyll 3.2 Undefined Method Downcase Error

    Here is how to get rid of a pesky Jekyll undefined method downcase error.

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  • Comparing Sheet of Data in Excel

    Comparing Sheet of Data in Excel

    How to compare data columns of data from different sheets in Excel.

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  • Smooth Pie Chart Transitions with D3.js

    Smooth Pie Chart Transitions with D3.js

    This tutorial shows how to make smooth transitions in a pie chart using d3.interpolate.

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  • Let’s Update a Pie Chart in Realtime with D3.js

    Let’s Update a Pie Chart in Realtime with D3.js

    This tutorial builds on previous work and updates a pie chart in realtime.

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  • Let’s Make a Pie Chart with D3.js

    Let’s Make a Pie Chart with D3.js

    Here I learn the basics of making a pie chart with D3.js

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  • Let’s Make a Grid with D3.js

    Let’s Make a Grid with D3.js

    This tutorial is a way to apply what I learned about data joins, click events, and selections in D3.js. Along the way I learned about building arrays.

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  • Fun with Circles in D3

    Fun with Circles in D3

    Learning D3 by playing with circles

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  • D3 Intro and Joins Notes

    D3 Intro and Joins Notes

    Notes from the D3js.org Introduction and Thinking With Joins

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  • Emmet

    Emmet

    Emmet is a tool that expands your HTML and CSS workflow.

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  • Relearning D3.js

    Relearning D3.js

    How I’m relearning D3.js.

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  • Error Document Handling with .htaccess

    Error Document Handling with .htaccess

    TIL how to forward error pages to real pages with .htaccess.

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  • Loading scripts in WordPress with wp_enqueue_scripts

    Loading scripts in WordPress with wp_enqueue_scripts

    Here is how to load scripts on specific pages in WordPress with wp_enqueue_scripts

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  • jQuery replaceWith

    jQuery replaceWith

    TIL how to quickly replace elements with jQuery

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