Author Archives: Chris C

Closed for Family Vacation

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Chris C

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

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Chris C

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

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Chris C

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?

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Chris C

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

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Chris C

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

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Chris C

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

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Chris C

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

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Chris C

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

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Chris C

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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Importance of Spouses in Small Businesses

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Chris C

Starting a new business is hard.  In 2010 study just over half of new business in Canada survive 5 years or more and only 30% survive 10 years.  Similar statics for our neighbours in the south. Saturday Morning Productions has been … Continue reading →

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