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LibraryHippo 2020 - Sending Email from Heroku

After getting a do-nothing web app running on Heroku, I think the riskiest requirement is having a scheduled job for LibraryHippo to check families' status and notify them. However rather than trying to satisfy that requirement, this time I'm going to try to set up email sending, mostly because it …

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LibraryHippo 2020 - A Bare-bones Flask App

Last time I laid out the uncertainties that have to be explore before I want to try hosting LibraryHippo on Heroku. Here they are again, roughly in descending order of importance and risk:

  1. web app hosting
  2. scheduled jobs
  3. scraping library websites on users' behalf
  4. a small (perhaps a few MB …

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Automatically Sync nupkg and project.json Dependencies

Recently while working on an open source .NET project, I forgot to update the .nuspec after changing a package dependency in my project.json. Of course the resulting nupkg contained the wrong dependency. Fortunately, the package wasn't published in that state, but I didn't want to risk such a thing …

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Select May Not be Broken, But it's Bent

Earlier this week at the day job I ran into an interesting problem working with a DataTable. A view that's supposed to show a subset of the table's rows showed nothing. I dropped into the debugger and became even more confused.

Visually inspecting the DataTable showed that there was a …

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