Notes on database relationships

Quick post. I've made mistakes while designing relational databases in the past, and most of them had to do with not understanding relationships well enough. I just happened to read someone else make a similar mistake on StackOverflow, and thought I'd write some quick notes on

Fixing that weird locale error when SSHing to a server

Each time I ssh to my server I'd keep seeing this error: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8", LANG = "C" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning:

Getting started with SDL

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a C library for writing games. This blog post should help you get started with developing SDL games. If you prefer to use Visual Studio, this article will be irrevelant to you. Follow the steps at lazyfoo.net instead. I'd suggest that you

Custom Authorize Filter

We've all used the [Authorize] attribute in ASP.NET MVC applications. To limit access to a particular action to users of two roles, you'd use something like [Authorize(Roles="Admin,Moderator")] on the action. There's always a chance that we mistype the

Why you must learn to touch type

I had to be convinced to learn touch typing. Here's me paying it forward!

Publishing GitBook to Github Pages

Markdown is nice. And it'd be really nice to get documentation or some notes up there with just Markdown, right? GitBook lets us do just that. From their website: GitBook is a modern publishing toolchain. Making both writing and collaboration easy. Here's an example of a

Show GIT commit SHA in .NET applications

Many applications display their commit ID alongside the version. VS Code is one such example: Though I've only tried this on ASP.NET sites, this should be doable in most .NET applications. To do this we create a pre-build event that'll execute a git command and

Getting started with R

This blogpost was for a friend who needed help learning R. If you're new to R, this should help you too. Also, I'm quite new to R myself and am not an expert by any means. Introduction R is a really simple language you can use

Working on your final year project

Your final year project is perhaps the most important thing you'll be doing in college. This blogpost is meant to help Computer Science students work better on their final year project. The project topic The project you're going to be working on should be fun to

Managing AppStates in Android

There are times when the state of the app must be retained even if the app is closed. At first, I used to subclass the Application class and store the application's state variables there. The Android developer reference, however, says that's not required: There is normally