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Today I Learned The Final Backslash is Important in Apache HTTPS Redirects
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
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
What is a Temporal Database?
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
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
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
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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Tagged .NET, .NET Core, NUnit, TeamCity
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Notes: Upgrade NUnit.Xamarin to NUnit 3.8.1
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
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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Tagged BEMCheckBox, TeamCity, xamarin, xamarin ios .net native-binding, xplugins
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Today I Learned How to Install a TeamCity Build Agent on a Mac
When I was first figuring out how to port the BEMCheckBox to Xamarin I built the framework manually. This is obviously not a good long term solution so I set about figuring out how to automate the build. The first … Continue reading
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Today I Learned How to Create a Xamarin iOS Binding for Objective-C Libraries – Part 4 The Actual Binding
This is the 4th and final part about incorporating an objective-c library in Xamarin. In my case I’m binding BEMCheckBox. In part 3 we used Sharpie to create a C# interface for the BEMCheckBox. In this post we will show … Continue reading
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Tagged BEMCheckBox, C#, ios, native-binding, objective-c, xamarin
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