Category: Software Engineering
How to Set Up a New Vue App
After being out of the loop for the last couple of years on advances in unit testing for component-based web frameworks, I have been pleasantly surprised at the experience and value available in unit testing my front-end code. In this blog post, I am going to walk through how to set up your first Vue…
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Saving Data With CouchDB
In my previous post, we queried some data in CouchDB. But the problem with that is we need to put some data into the database if we want to query it. Adding data to CouchDB isn’t difficult. You just need to insert another document. Doing so is pretty straightforward. If you want to insert a…
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CouchDB Using Nano NPM
In my previous blog post, I did a quick intro to CouchDB. In this post, we will dive into writing some code that uses CouchDB. We will use NodeJS for this application. You could just as easily write this in C# or any language, but for this post I thought I’d play around with NodeJS….
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Getting Started with Marten
As I wrote in my previous blog post, PostgreSQL is a very capable SQL database. But one thing very interesting about PostgreSQL is its excellent support for JSON documents. The ability to store JSON documents in a database basically allows the database to run like a NoSQL document store, effectively combining relational and non-relational into…
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Getting Started with PostgreSQL
Writing software applications involves building many components. One of these components is the client, the piece of the application that the user interaction interacts with. Another component is the backend business logic, typically writing that in some server-side technology. The backend business logic enforces the required business rules. But another standard piece of application software…
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Using the Harvest API
Anyone who does consulting is keenly aware of the importance of time tracking. Harvest is an excellent tool for logging time for projects. It’s the system we use here at Don’t Panic Labs, and we’ve found it to be both low friction and highly valuable. But there may be times when you want to use…
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I Want My .NET Maui!
There is something really appealing about native applications. As a user, having a “real” application – as opposed to a web application – often feels better. Native applications feel like a real piece of productive software. Maybe that’s why I enjoy working on them. I know that my work will produce something I might enjoy…
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GitHub Actions and a C# AWS Lambda
GitHub is the standard for online source control. It was really the first platform many of us knew about for the hosting of git in the cloud, and we have all used it at some point. At Don’t Panic Labs, we have been using Azure Dev Ops more than GitHub during the last few years….
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Building Serverless Applications in C# with AWS Lambda
Hosting your backend solution used to be pretty straightforward for .NET developers. You were basically writing an ASP.NET website that was hosted in IIS. Today there are a lot of options, of which IIS is still one of them. Many of the web applications we write today end up hosted in either Azure App Services…
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How To: Sending Emails with Mailgun
Sending emails is a common feature in software these days. A user signs up, we send an email. A user places an order, we send an email. This sort of action happens all over. So it isn’t surprising that as software developers, it’s pretty common for us to include email functionality in the systems we…
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