Notes for creating a UWP Surface App using .NET Core
These notes are more for personal use, so sorry for any incoherence :P. But maybe someone will find them helpful, even if UWP apps have been »
Writing a React Native iOS module in Swift
The odds were against me: The documentation is a little slim. I haven't been paying attention to the javascript universe for 6 months. But I have »
Creating a custom visual in Power BI
I'm making a visual to display a single KPI with some data, similar to Card with States - no graphs or anything fancy. To get started, »
Working with SQL Server in Django (+ schemas!)
Update as of 2019-10-16: This is pretty outdated and all of the issues are not difficult to solve. I recommend reading my new posts here for »
Testing requests in Play Framework
It's easy to test forms and controllers in Play Framework, except for when you add real-life things like CSRF protection and authentication. Other frameworks, like Django, »
Sane logging for postgres
Getting situated I’m using CentOS 7, and my logs are at /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_log by default. Or if not by default, then »
Play framework - testing forms with array fields
I have an HTML form with a couple of fields, one of which is an array, the other of which is not. I want to be »
Play Framework - throw an exception to return an HTTP response
Hmm, when I write out the title, the idea seems pretty gross. But it makes some boilerplate-type things really nice. Take, for example, a user profile »
Ebean throws Null Pointer Exception when int column is null
6-16-2017 update: Hmm, turns out this issue was partly due to my Java inexperience. Primitives can't be null. Oh well, I think this could still be »
Supervisord issue on centos
Every now and then I'd get a message about supervisor not being able to find its socket. So I'd blindly start supervisor again and everything would »
Getting SQL Server to work with Play Framework
Originally published on svbtle on SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 I'm using the jTDS driver with Play 2.5.8 (which uses HikariCP) and kept getting exceptions like »
Implementing something like Django's exception middleware in Play Framework
Originally published on svbtle on SEPTEMBER 13, 2016 One thing that I’ve found to reduce boilerplate is being able to throw exceptions from helper methods »
Testing with Unmanaged Databases in Django
Originally published on svbtle on AUGUST 23, 2016 I’m testing some API endpoints in a Django app using two different databases. One of them is »