Author Archives: Chris C

Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 8 – Create Game Players CRUD – Part 1

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Chris C

I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs presentation at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working). Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show you … Continue reading →

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My Takeaway from Reading When

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Chris C

Book: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect TimingAuthor: Daniel H. Pink Any book that promotes napping is a win for me. These days it’s easy for me to catch a couple ZZZs as I work from home. When I was … Continue reading →

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Thank you for Attending my SQL Saturday 840 Presentation – Create a Time Travelling Database

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Chris C

Thank you to everyone who attended my SQL Saturday 840 “Create a Time Travelling Database” presentation. I enjoyed your questions and the discussion after the presentation. If you have any further questions feel free to reach out to me at … Continue reading →

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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 7 – Create GamePlayers Table

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Chris C

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My Takeaway from Moneyball

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Chris C

Book: Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair GameAuthor: Michael Lewis Both the movie and book are great and truth be told I watched the movie well before reading the book. In both cases they do a great job of … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Create a React-Rails App

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Chris C

A working example can be found here in the Saturday MP Examples GitHub. First thing you need to do is create a basic Rails app as outlined in my previous post. My setup is the same as creating Rails app: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host … Continue reading →

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Happy Holidays!

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Chris C

Saturday MP (i.e. Chris and Ada) are taking some time off over the holidays to visit with family, friends, and spending a day not changing out of our pyjamas and playing games all day. We will be back to our … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned how to Generate a ERD for Rails Application

Posted on November 18, 2018 by Chris C

Back in the day Rails apps didn’t add foreign keys to database tables. Believe it or not this was a feature not a bug. The idea was that you shouldn’t “repeat” the relationship between you models in the code and … Continue reading →