Category Archives: Today I Learned

Today I Learned how to Copy a Putty Key From Windows to a Mac

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Chris C

You created a private Putty key on Windows workstation to access a remote service but now you need to access that same remote service from a Mac workstation.  In my case I need to access the same Git repository from … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Create a Key Pair Using PuTTY

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Chris C

I recently had to generate a private/public key pair to access a Git repository.  While I’ve done this several times before I never do it enough to remember all the steps so this time I wrote it down. Since my … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned how to Install PostgreSQL in Ubuntu

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Chris C

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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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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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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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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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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Today I Learned How to Install a TeamCity Build Agent on a Mac

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Chris C

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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