While building my app ThinkBack I decided to use Realm as my underlying data-store. ThinkBack allows users capture notes and categorize them using hashtags. A note can have many hashtags and a hashtag can have many notes. This is the basis of a many-to-many relationship. Realm’s documentation on model relationships shows an example using a …
While building my app ThinkBack I decided to use Realm as my underlying data-store. ThinkBack’s home screen contains a list of notes which need pagination to avoid loading everything unnecessarily. From the Realm docs: Pagination & Limits Some queries only need to access a subset of all objects that match the query. Realm’s lazy-loaded collections …
There’s currently no native support for detecting whether or not the device ringer is set to silent. This poses an issue when you want to leverage the state of the ringer to trigger some action within the app, such as notifying the user. Fortunately there’s a fairly straightforward way to detect this on your own …
In my Xamarin iOS application I’m leveraging the UITableView control to page through a collection of items in a performant manner. The UITableView uses the GetCell method of the UITableViewDataSource delegate to create or reuse instances of cells as they become visible on screen. Great, that sounds efficient, and it is! However, in my application the …
jQuery Validation is a very convenient client-side validation framework that has made the implementation of client-side validation much more streamlined. For many web applications, introducing validation for a static form is as simple as defining the rules, messages and a handful of other (optional) settings. What about when we have dynamic content on our form? …
We have a system built around the K2 Blackpearl workflow engine that routes requests to the appropriate destinations. We switched a number of users from one active directory domain to an entirely different one, which K2’s cache wasn’t aware of. This caused some users to be missed when resolving the workflow destination active directory group …
I came across a need to download a file through an AJAX request to a Web API 2.0 endpoint. A quick search revealed a fairly straightforward way to tackle this problem, which is to implement a custom IHttpActionResult (available in Web API 2.0) that sets up the HttpResponse in a way that can be digested by …
After going through the free provisioning profile article I’ve been able to debug my Xamarin iOS app on a physical device. I wanted to verify what happens when the application gets installed for the first time, so I deleted the app from my phone. After running the Visual Studio debugger, the application was reinstalled successfully on …
We went out on a limb and purchased the Polaroid 4K Ultra HD TV. For the most part this TV was a good buy: great picture, sound and built-in functionality. One feature, however, made the TV appear to have a mind of its own. Periodically throughout the day we found that the TV turns on …
Living in the city has shown me just how hard it can be to find an affordable apartment with a reasonable amount of space. Having two cats in such a small place doesn’t really give them much room to roam or pseudo hunt. Inspired by this cat tower, I decided to build an automatic cat …
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