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Author Archives: Chris C
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
Posted in Software Development
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
Posted in Notes, Support
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
Posted in Introduction to ORMs for DBAs, Software Development
Tagged .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, DataGrip, Entity Framework, Introduction to ORMs for DBAs, ORM, sql-server
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My Takeaway from Reading When
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
Thank you for Attending my SQL Saturday 840 Presentation – Create a Time Travelling Database
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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