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NetSuite API – Setting up Access Token Authentication

I’ve been working with NetSuite Suite Bundler since 2015. At the time authentication to NetSuite’s API or NetSuite’s RESTlet was accomplished by sending a username and password with each call to NetSuite. If you’re just getting started be sure to read Netsuite API Developer’s Guide first.

NetSuite (I think in 2017) changed this to also allow Access Token based authentication, instead of a raw username/password. As of January 2019, this is now required; the old username/password mechanism has official been deprecated.

Let’s explore how to make API calls with the Access Token based authentication.

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July 20, 2019
Setup routes in Node.js with Express.js and Jade with controllers, models, and views

I like the structure of Model View Controller (MVC) and I wanted to apply it to my Node.js projects.

I’ve written previous articles about Node using Jade Templates with Express, but I didn’t go into much details about code organization; let’s do that now.

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July 14, 2019
Node.js as a background service

When you are developing and testing your application, it’s ok to constantly start the Node.js server; however, once you’ve finished or you are trying to setup a production web server you want the Node.js service to always be running in the background. Let’s explore the variety of ways to accomplish this.

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July 6, 2019
CSS3’s border-radius property and border-collapse:collapse don’t mix

Let’s explore an alternative way to achieve border-collapse:collapse with border-radius in CSS to have a collapsed, rounded corner table.

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June 25, 2019
Web API Global Exception Handler using an ExceptionFilterAttribute filter

Web API and MVC with C# offer stellar global filters that can be registered in the App_Start/FilterConfig.cs file. For Web API and MVC the global filters goes inside the RegisterGlobalFilters function. This function contains an override based on whether you are applying the filter to MVC or Web API. Today we are going to look at how to implement an extension filter of the ExceptionFilterAttribute.

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April 19, 2019