Letters From My Mind

Just a set of random thoughts by a self professed geek who is into Star Trek, Rock Music (especially guitar driven ones), cars, aircraft and ships. Cementing my geek creds would be my passion for software development. I do C# and JavaScript professionally but I do fondle with Dart and other languages for fun.

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Frank Kelly Freas

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Matching database field names with underscores in dappet.net.

A little trick I learned on using the default dapper.net mapper to match screaming case field names.

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In 1888, German booksellers and publishers agreed that publishers would set one price for each book, and booksellers would abide by it. The fixed-price promise aimed to reduce competition between sellers, and give lesser known titles a chance to flourish. “The arrangement resembled a prenuptial agreement between both sides, based on trust,” Michael Naumann, former publisher and German secretary of culture, wrote in 2012. The agreement became law in 2002. Today any retailers who sell off-price books are required to pay heavy fines.

Amazon may never win the book market in Germany, thanks to a century-old agreement - Quartz (via infoneer-pulse)

Cool!

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The Dune

The howling winds blow

A man steps into the dunes

The sands rapidly shift, the landscape only has one constant, change

Changes from the prevailing winds

Some induced by machinations of men

Some by random chance

Causality reigns supreme

Guided by the sun by day

Path taken reflected by the stars at night.

Path never clear

Path ever changing

All the man can do is soldier on

The price of stagnation, atrophy

Backward, only has past achievements, pain and regret

Forward, a chance

A legacy

What form of legacy?

Good or bad, changes like the dune

The man walks on

A mere speck in the dune.

Potential to merely affect it

Never to control it

The dune is eternal, the men, aren’t

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My Cordova & Ionic Toolchain - Code Tools - Part 2: Sublime Text

My thoughts on Sublime Text 3 as a tool for code editing in Cordova/Ionic.

MY thoughts on Sublime Text for Cordova/Ionic Framework.

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My 2 months with Ionic/Cordova

I have been developing experimenting with cross platform mobile development these 2 months. I have had some experience with Xamarin, no production applications yet so most of this are just based on my nascent experience with Xamarin. My opinions may...

A blog post about my 2 months with Apache Cordova and the Ionic Framework.

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Memories of Copenhagen, DK

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Okay, one of the most annoying thing that happened to me was my value object/model class was getting this strange k__BackingField appended to the fields. This is how the class looked like [Serializable] public class UserVO { [DataMember] public...

A little tip to fix a problem I faced today.

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Good read.

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Cool!

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Das Guitar

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Gloomy Pit Stop (at Plus Highway Senawang)

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KL/PJ traffic when you auddenly feel the urge to take a shit.

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The Roundabout

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Traffic (at Jabatan Pengeluaran, KWSP PJ)

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Dark Memories (at Universiti LRT Station)