Developer Environment

Automated and repeatable Developer Environment setup

Hours to minutes: setting up a .NET / Node developer environment from scratch using PowerShell + Chocolatey...

March 7, 2022 · 4 min · lpains

Simple prevent write commands in SQL Server

Some times you just need to check whether a script will try to mess with your DB. In this post, I show you a regex that can help you check for that....

May 25, 2021 · 1 min · lpains

Date input placeholder hack

The input type date is a very nice control introduced in html5. The problem is that it is very limited at this point and features such as placeholder are not available. Thus, let's hack it!...

February 5, 2021 · 1 min · lpains
Dashboard

Enforce read only access in SQL Server queries

If you run dynamic or configurable SQL queries and you need to ensure that writes are denied, this post is for you....

July 7, 2020 · 2 min · lpains
Timezones

Xamarin Forms converting from one timezone to another

Yet another post about date and time. Need to convert a date from a specific time zone in Xamarin Forms? No problem, this post will show you exactly how....

March 16, 2020 · 1 min · lpains