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Author Archives: Chris C
My Takeaway from Reading David and Goliath
Book: David and GoliathAuthor: Malcolm Gladwell The subtitle for the book is “Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants” and as you would expect it has many examples of an underdog beating a giant. Often the underdogs have to … Continue reading
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Tagged David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell, Takeaways
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Generate a Todo List in Standard (Rubocop)
The older I get the more I appreciate code linters. Something that can detect and often correct my formatting errors? Great! One less thing I have to worry about. Then I can spend my time on more important tasks such … Continue reading
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Tagged rubocop, ruby on rails, standard
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A Pleasant Development Environment featuring Docker and Rails
With the current virus issues I forgot to publicize that my presentation about creating pleasant development environments was posted along with an example of Dockerizing an existing Rails application. You can find the slides for the talk here. Finally you … Continue reading
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Tagged corgibytes, development environment, presentation, ruby on rails, software development, yegrb
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A Rails 6 Template and Then Some
I appreciate people posting getting started examples and templates online. They are good for getting started and playing with a new technology. The problem is the templates are usually not production ready. They are also missing a bunch of the … Continue reading
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Tagged ruby on rails, software development
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Today I Learned Altering a SQL Column Removes it’s Default Value
This one I actually already knew but temporarily forgot about it so got to relearn it. In MySQL, and many other databases, updating the column with an ALTER statement will remove any properties not explicitly listed. For example, say you … Continue reading
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Tagged MySQL, Today I Learned, utf8mb4
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My Takeaway from Reading Sometimes you Win, Sometimes you Learn
Book: Sometimes you Win, Sometimes you LeanAuthor: John C. Maxwell My takeaway from this book had nothing to do with it’s premise: learning from your mistakes. Instead my takeaway had to do with writing. Specifically make sure your audience can … Continue reading
Today I Learned About GitHub’s Dependabot
Recently I created a CI build for the Introduction to ORM for DBAs presentation example code. One of the reasons I picked this code base was so I could try out Dependabot for the security alerts I’m getting. The security … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, dependabot, GitHub, Today I Learned
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Notes on Fixing Ubuntu 18.04 VM not Booting
Some notes so I remember how to fix this problem if it happens again and I don’t waste a bunch of time figuring it out right before a customer production release. Not a great start to my day. This issue … Continue reading
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Tagged Ubuntu, virtual machines, virtualbox
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Today I Learned How to Setup Azure Pipelines CI
Our last EDMUG meetup was an excellent presentation about Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps reminds me of GitLab where it is more then just continuous integration (CI). It includes issues tracking, repositories, and continuous delivery. All pretty standard stuff. However, one … Continue reading
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Tagged .NET Core, Azure DevOps
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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 8 – Create Game Players CRUD – Part 1
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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Tagged .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, DataGrip, Entity Framework, Introduction to ORMs for DBAs, ORM, sql-server
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