Category Archives: Software Development

Introduction to Object-Relational Mapping for DBAs – Part 2

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Chris C

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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Introduction to Object-Relational Mapping for DBAs – Part 1

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Chris C

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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XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox 1.4.3 Released

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Chris C

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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Today I Learned How to Fix Illegal Characters in Path Error with TeamCity and RealmDB

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Chris C

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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Overlapping Segments Create Space Time Paradoxes

Posted on December 12, 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 database … Continue reading →

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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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