Category: Software Development Tips & Tricks
Creating Tray Applications with Electron
Electron is a technology that allows developers to create desktop applications using web technologies. This approach has a few advantages. First, it will enable us to create a desktop application using web technologies. Second, it allows us to create a single application that works on Windows and Mac. There are many good examples of applications…
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Passing Data to Any Angular Component on Router Navigation
There are several different ways to pass data from one component to the next. We will briefly discuss a few of these options and then implement passing data from a component you’re navigating away from to the component you navigated to using router NavigationExtras. Finally, we’ll end the discussion with a brief list of considerations…
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DynamoDB Streams
AWS’s DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL data store (non-relational data store). Often, we will want some sort of audit or logging of who is changing data. This can be done using DynamoDB streams. DynamoDB Stream will send all changes to a Lambda function we write. First, let’s create a new Lambda function. The code just…
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Using Azure to Securely Restore a MySQL Database
We had a need to move an on-premises MySQL Database to an Azure Flexible Server MySQL database. We could have taken the insecure path of sending a backup of the original database to a developer and restoring it from their local machine, but that would have led to customer data on their machine. We were…
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Quick Look – RestSharp
It is very common to make REST API calls as part of our applications today. REST APIs are probably the most common API flavor out there. The ease of interacting with REST APIs is perhaps the biggest driver for REST APIs becoming so popular. You can make REST API calls using pretty low-level tools in…
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The Magic of Git Bisect (And Why Small Commits Are Important!)
Have you ever had a bug slip through CI/CD, and the code you were CERTAIN worked a while back is no longer working as designed? If the bug is hard to find or in a piece of code that is hard to debug, git bisect may be the tool you are looking for. If you…
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Pulling Calendar Items Using Swift
In a previous blog post, I took you through how to pull contacts from iOS or Mac. In this post, I will show you how to pull calendar items. This turns out to be very similar to pulling contacts. First, we must request access to the calendar. As part of requesting access, we must create…
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Scaffolding
Sometimes we just need a few screens to perform some basic data editing. Often this is necessary for an admin system. We could build full systems for that (which has some advantages), but we might be better off with some scaffolded UI. In software development, scaffolding is when some pre-generated code is used to get…
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Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Basics
This post is intended to give you a swift kick from behind into a pool of CORS, without taking all day to do so, and without digging into any specific technologies. With that said, let’s learn to swim. What is CORS? From Mozilla: “Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is an HTTP-header based mechanism that allows…
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Contact Integration for Your Swift App
iOS and Mac have built-in systems to house many things, such as contacts. If you are building software that has contacts, there is a good chance you will want to pull those system contacts and integrate them into your system. So how does one go about integrating those contacts? The code to do so isn’t…
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