This is the article for you if you are trying to create your first typed component in React/React-Native. — Hello Friend, So you’ve decided to dip your toes into the world of Typescript in your React/React-Native app. Cool. Let’s walk through how you would upgrade a simple button component from JS -> TS. …

I heard this week that Disney is remaking the “Little Mermaid” and casting Halle Baily as Ariel. As you can imagine, this generated the all-too-normal wringing of hands on social media with pro-remake and anti-remake forces taking aim at each other. I think I can understand some of the points…

In this article, we’ll be going through the (very) basics of generating documentation from docstrings in your Python code. It is a bit of a grind, but after you do it once, it will be easy to repeat the process in every new project. For our purposes, we will assume…

A friend recently asked me for my thoughts on the role of art within the church. Here they are. Hopefully you will not find them an utter waste. In my particular strand of the Christian faith (basically “evangelical/non-denominational”) we have historically kept the arts at a distance except for music…

Yes, I feel your pain. Here’s a solution. — Have you had this experience? The Oracle team at your organization is encouraging/requiring applications to start connecting to the databases via LDAP instead of other traditional methods. You lookup the cx_Oracle documentation and find that there isn’t anything on LDAP based connection strings. Wah-wah. :( Thankfully, I have a DBA friend named Raj who taught me about `sqlnet.ora` and `ldap.ora`.