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Category Archives: Software Development
Today I Learned how to Install PostgreSQL in Ubuntu
For an upcoming project I’m thinking of using PostgreSQL. I’ve heard lots of great things about PostgreSQL in the past but have been too scared lazy busy to try it. What changed my mind was JetBrains DataGrip database client. I’m sure there … Continue reading
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Tagged DataGrip, PostgreSQL, Ubuntu
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Blast from the Past: New Tools Require New Standards
I recently started a new contract that involves tools and software languages I normally don’t use. I have to remember that .NET best practices don’t necessarily translate to PHP/Java. I have to remember that New Tools Require New Standards (originally … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Software Development
Tagged Blast from the Past, getting old, software development, tools
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Introduction to Object-Relational Mapping for DBAs – Part 3
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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Tagged Entity Framework, ORM, SQL Saturday Edmonton
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Introduction to Object-Relational Mapping for DBAs – Part 2
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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Tagged .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, DBA, ORM sql-server, SQL Saturday Edmonton
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Introduction to Object-Relational Mapping for DBAs – Part 1
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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Tagged .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, DBA, ORM, SQL Saturday Edmonton, sql-server
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XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox 1.4.3 Released
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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Tagged BEMCheckBox, xamarin, xamarin ios .net native-binding, xplugins, xplugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox
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Today I Learned How to Fix Illegal Characters in Path Error with TeamCity and RealmDB
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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Tagged realmdb, TeamCity, xamarin
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Overlapping Segments Create Space Time Paradoxes
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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Tagged Temporal Database
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Temporal Database Timelines
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
Notes on Fixing Incomplete Bitcode Error in TeamCity Automated Objective-c Builds
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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Tagged BEMCheckBox, TeamCity, xamarin, xamarin ios .net native-binding, xplugins
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