So, the first obvious question is: what’s wrong with Jekyll? Overall, Jekyll is fine. I just never liked how hard it is to install it on Windows. For the most part, I made most of my blog changes blindly. That includes structure, style, and blog posts. The next big question is: why Hugo? Well… It is super easy to install for one. But it is also popular, easy to use, and works similarly to Jekyll....
The expectations surrounding app releases have changed greatly in the last several years. From months-long release cycles to release many times in a day. In part, this is made possible by smaller applications powered by micro services and some of the typical technologies employed with these applications. In particular, Containers bring a lot of new capabilities including easier deployments via orchestration tools such as Kubernetes. As a developer and team lead, one of the best added benefits of containers is how easy it is to spin up an environment for each change....
On multiple occasions, I found myself trying to check if a query for data read is safe to execute or not. This is typically useful when the query is saved outside of your code, and you cannot restrict the access level of the user executing it. The following regex, while not exhausting by any means, will detect most query patterns typically used to change data. Note that inserts, updates, deletes, and merges are permitted on temporary tables (e....
The input type date is a very nice control introduced in HTML5. The problem is that it is very limited at this point and features such as placeholder may not available. Regardless, you may use it successfully if you are willing to make some css adjustments. In this post I will show how to add a placeholder to a date editor using minimal javascript and css. For the demo below I’m using vanilla css and vuejs just because it is so easy to use....
I spent a few too many hours fiddling with Xamarin Form’s collection view and multi-selection binding. That was somewhat frustrating so I’m writing a little about it in the hopes that you don’t have to deal with the same. If you have a view like this: and a View Model like this: You’d expect the binding to work, right? No problems. Well, no. It doesn’t. The CollectionView will only bind SelectedItems to collections of object....