Discover Interesting Programming Posts Worth Reading (part 1)

Searching for interesting content and questions was always an important part of any programmer’s life. As a matter of fact, being able to search efficiently to find material is an important basic skill that every programmer should know.

In this posting series, I like to share some interesting posts and questions/answers that I encountered during my work. I also mention what was my query that resulted in that particular post. Hope you enjoy it!

Let’s start!

Docker Volume Relative Path

Once I was running up a docker container locally to test an application. The application required some initial admin setups and configs through UI that I had to redo each time I run the container. Therefore, I decided to create a directory and use it as a mounted volume to persistent the docker storage for config.

Surprisingly I encountered an error! Something like Invalid Character for the Volume

As I noticed in the Post blow, it seems the docker volume path has to be absolute and not relative!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46526165/docker-invalid-characters-for-volume-when-using-relative-paths

So be careful!

Get Table Width With JS

This one gave me a headache for a while. I was trying to get the width of a table to use in another task. Tried many stuff and had no success since I was under the impression that “Yeah, this one is straightforward! no need to search!”

Wrong!

Finally, I found this. Looks like we need to use offsetWidth for a table!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11912673/javascript-to-determine-table-width-height

Style The Scrollbar in Chrome

The boss told me “I don’t like the scrollbar“.

I mean, he was right. The default one in Chrome is not nice. So how can I change that?

This post showed me how to do it.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44334106/how-can-i-style-horizontal-scrollbar-by-css

The End.