Category Archives: Software Development

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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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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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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Notes: Upgrade NUnit.Xamarin to NUnit 3.8.1

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Chris C

The notes I took when trying to upgrade the NUnit Xamarin project to NUnit 3.8.1.  The reason I did this was to fix issue #87.  When I try to us NUnit Xamarin on another project it fails with the following … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Automate Objective-c Builds in TeamCity

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Chris C

Several months ago I discussed how to manually build an objective-c project so it can be consumed by a Xamarin Binding Project.  In this post I show how to automate the building of the objective-c project.  In my case I need … Continue reading →

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