Author Archives: Chris C

Family Vacation is Over

Our family vacation is over and the basement is back open for business.  Actually we where open on Monday but I forgot to remove the digital closed signed.  Sorry about that. On this trip we visited Hong Kong and Shanghai, spending … Continue reading

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Closed for Family Vacation

Saturday MP is a small family business and like your local family run restaurant the entire family is involved in some way.  Currently it’s mostly me working at Saturday MP but Ada helps with some book keeping and in the … Continue reading

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Today I Learned The Final Backslash is Important in Apache HTTPS Redirects

Lets start with the bug: When requesting a download link via the Downloads page the link that is sent via e-mail is invalid.  It is missing a slash. 1) Enter a e-mail on the Downloads page (https://www.saturdaymp.com/downloads) that has already … Continue reading

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Degree of Temporalness

This post is part of a larger discussion about temporal databases.  Hopefully it stands on it’s own but for more context see the Temporal Database Design page. Most of us have worked with database tables that track some historical information.  … Continue reading

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What is a Temporal Database?

You can read the official Wikipedia definition but for our purposes it’s a database where you can query for historical data using SQL. For example, say you have someone named Chronos who lives in New York but on April 15, … Continue reading

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Today I Learned How to Create Custom NUnit Constraints – Part 2: Constraint Usage Syntax

In Part 1 we created a custom NUnit constraint but you where limited in using the constraint.  You could only write: It would be nice to write: To do that you should read the documentation.  End of blog post. So is … Continue reading

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Today I Learned How to Create Custom NUnit Constraints – Part 1: Creating the Constraint

NUnit has has built in constraints for most the tests you will need to write so there is no need to create your own.  End of blog post. OK, that was a bad joke.  The first step in creating a … Continue reading

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NConstraints Version 1.0.0 Released

A common unit test assert I need to do is compare all the property values of one object to another.  For example: In this test we only have two properties to test but if the object has 10 plus properties … Continue reading

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Today I Learned How to Run NUnit Tests for a .NET Core Project in TeamCity

In TeamCity you can’t use the usual NUnit Runner to run .NET Core unit tests.  At least I couldn’t get it to work.  I’m sure this will be fixed in the future but for now the below works for me.  … Continue reading

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Odds Are you Work for a Small Business

If I was a betting man I would bet you work for a small company (99employees or less).  Odds are I would be right half the time.  How did I come up with those numbers?  Using some math and stats … Continue reading

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