Okie dokie... TCR works. And is fun. A bunch of the product / planning elements of the site that got worked in I kinda threw aside for the TCR script. I still want to focus on writing to cosmos. Since I have the CosmosItem; let's go ahead and ... Think…
PREAMBLE (written after the fact) My next series of posts is probably going to be about writing my magic card site for the nth time. The goal is to do strict TDD using TCR. I did a little of it tonight... and it's 1am... so... I'm…
I've spent the past few weeks working out how to do AAD auth to a Function App. That's right; 3 weeks. I search so much... and Bing... Bing is the most worthless search engine. I doesn't mark pages I've visited as visited.…
As it happens now, it's been a little while since my last post. I don't have as much to think through as I did the many prior years. I'm pretty shitty at the "self-promotion" aspect that a prolific blogger or tech-coach will…
I got a message on LinkedIn a little while ago from a reader (Hi Marcelo!) asking my thinking around Contract Testing. I wrote up a brief answer, but there's definitely some more thoughts bouncing around in my head... so it's ramblin' time! For those unaware…
It's time for Mono. MonoState objects. MonoState This is a design pattern I found, and then later found this name for. When I originally found the pattern I was calling it a WrappedSingleton because... it's a Singleton that's "wrapped" in a class…
Time to put my code where my mouth is; it's a big mouth. I've put my core code of MtgDiscovery.com (version 2) up to be able to blog about. I don't have the code base. Much is currently stripped out. The repo is…
This ties to my site https://MtgDiscovery.com - A shock, right? Sometimes I have to update sets and re-ingest data. This happens a lot when the feed doesn't align with how I collect the cards. Best example is when the size of the set represented on the…