Sea Shepherd’s ship, Steve Irwin is visiting Wellington for a few days after returning from the southern ocean. I may not completely agree with their methods, but all Greenpeace do these days is hassle people on the street.
One of the cool features of PostgreSQL is in-database enumeration types. With Entity Framework Core 2.1 and the latest Npgsql packages these become (almost) first class types in EF. I say almost because migrations can only create enumerations, any changes have to be manually added to the migrations.
My personal project ended up with multiple EF contexts. No real reason, it just ended up like that. Following the Npgsql documentation I used a class static constructor to map the enumerations to Npgsql
Wheat & Gluten-Free Home Baking by Lola Workman, unfortunately not available on Kindle.
This is one of my newest cookbooks, but it is rapidly becoming one of my favourites. I purchased this late last year from Cook The Books, a local cookbook store and a very dangerous place for my wallet. It’s well worth a visit if you’re in to any sort of cooking.
Wheat & Gluten-Free Home Baking concentrates on breads and buns and it does these really well.
I have many gluten free cookbooks, so I’ve decided to start reviewing them so everyone else can pick the best.
Back in 2013 my wife and I visited Toronto, I’d managed to convince her that the Toronto Indycar race would be fun to watch. While over there we went to the amazing Bunner’s Bakeshop, a completely gluten free and vegan bakery. I’m not vegan but I was seriously impressed with their cakes and cinnamon rolls.
Since I posted my gluten free bread recipe I’ve been trying different
things to improve it, mostly varying the flours and binder quantities. It’s a
slow process as I have to eat a loaf of bread after each attempt!
Since being diagnosed with coeliac disease in 2005 (Or thereabouts. My medical records were lost…) I’ve
been trying to make a decent gluten free bread. It’s tricky since gluten is the very thing that makes bread
work, but with a lot of experimentation and some Science I’ve found a recipe that works pretty well. This loaf
is gluten, diary and egg free, and could be made soy free as well.
After many years using an ancient GPL version of MovableType (4.32, the last to support
PostgreSQL. I have aversion to MySQL) I’ve gone to a new
static site generator - Hugo. I’ve previously looked at Jekyll
but the complexity of migrating my MovableType content over was just too much. Finally
I got sick of paying for a server that gets no use and moved my blog to S3 storage
and had to do something.
I’m back, after a short break and much swearing at third party libraries. I was going to use React.NET as that bundles up all the things required, but it has too many opinions about how you call your React components. Since I’m using Redux an react-router this makes most of the code redundant, so I went back to using the raw components.
Additionally, I switched from V8 to using Microsoft’s Chakra runtime because the existing V8 interop libraries do not support .
Time for the web UI! I’m building this using ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET MVC 6 for the controller side and React, Redux, Immutable and TypeScript for the view layer. I’m not a fan of node.js, but I do like the web view being defined in one place so running React on the server side appeals to me. I could run it fully in the browser but servers tend to be faster than clients, especially mobile clients.
The backend Api servers are going to use the WebAPI component of ASP.NET 5 to make a RESTful api. Since I’m using entity framework for the database layer this is a remarkably simple piece of code, especially since most of it will be automatically generated.
Right now I’ll focus on the basic create/read/update/delete (CRUD) methods, later on I’ll get to some more interesting logic when it’s time for automatic transaction posting and budget forecasting.
