Author Archives: Chris C

Introduction to Object-Relational Mapping for DBAs – Part 3

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Chris C

Why Developers Use ORMs (i.e. their Strengths) This is the third and final part of a lighting talk I’m giving at the SQL Saturday Edmonton Speaker Idol Contest.   Imagine I’m actually speaking the words below and showing some of the … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Object-Relational Mapping for DBAs – Part 2

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Chris C

This is part two of a lighting talk I’m giving at the SQL Saturday Edmonton Speaker Idol Contest.   Imagine I’m actually speaking the words below and showing some of the images on slides and/or doing a demo.  Code can be found here. … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Object-Relational Mapping for DBAs – Part 1

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Chris C

This is the part one of a lighting talk I’m giving at the SQL Saturday Edmonton Speaker Idol Contest.   Imagine I’m actually speaking the words below and showing some of the images on slides and/or doing a demo.  Code can be … Continue reading →

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XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox 1.4.3 Released

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Chris C

I’m happy to announce the release of XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox 1.4.3.  The main feature of this release is exposing the DidTapCheckBox event in the underlying BEMCheckBox.  You can find a full list of issues fixed in this release here. The easiest way to … Continue reading →

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Happy Holidays and all the Best in 2018!

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Chris C

This morning I made my last shopping trip before Christmas, at least I hope it’s my last trip. Pro tip: the Costco near us officially opens at 10am but if you show up at 9:45ish they will let you in.  … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Fix Illegal Characters in Path Error with TeamCity and RealmDB

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Chris C

When building a Xamarin application one step is to build the Android APK file.  This is a MsBuild step in TeamCity that looks like: This step generates the following error: Notice the “*Undefined*Tools” in the directory path.  To fix this … Continue reading →

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Overlapping Segments Create Space Time Paradoxes

Posted on December 12, 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.  You can read the official Wikipedia definition but for our purposes a Temporal Database is a database … Continue reading →

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Temporal Database Timelines

Posted on December 7, 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.  You can read the official Wikipedia definition but for our purposes a Temporal Database is a … Continue reading →

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Notes on Fixing Incomplete Bitcode Error in TeamCity Automated Objective-c Builds

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Chris C

Notes I took while trying to fix the Incomplete Bitcode error in submission bug.  Not sure if it’s fixed yet as I haven’t tried submitting an app to the App Store yet.  Hopefully someone else will try it and confirm it’s fixed. … Continue reading →

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Family Vacation is Over

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Chris C

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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