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trboydenon Links to Free Books on Programming

Xamarin.Forms Notes Book for Professionals: https://books.goalkicker.com/XamarinFormsBook/

trboydenon Innovation to fight the pandemic – Hands-free handle made of recycled plastic

Or, you know, install motion-detection door openers that require no touching at all (helpful for amputees that might not have arms...).

trboydenon Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019)

Excellent craftmanship of a helpful blog. Very reminiscent of the style used by the Head Rush Ajax (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596102258.do) book O'Reilly published back in 2009 and the rest of the Head First series.

trboydenon Show HN: SfEDI: a simple way to write EDI documents in dotnet core

Not seeing a whole lot of value of SfEDI over just writing a StringBuilder if you want to treat EDI like a CSV file. http://www.X12.org (once their servers are back online) provide XSD schemas that you can generate (http://www.liquid-technologies.com/online-xsd-to-cs-generato...) classes from that would provide full validation of an EDI document. Those classes would then allow you to serialize/deserialize from POCO to XML which most EDI providers (http://www.spscommerce.com) support. The validation piece of that is key to making sure your documents are valid for the EDI translators that will be checking your documents prior to them getting to the supplier/customer.

trboydenon Nushell – A New Type of Shell

They totally blew it. Should have called it Nutshell.

trboydenon New iPhone SE

I got my iPhone SE (iPhone 7) on Amazon for $150 a couple months ago... It sadly replaced my (real) iPhone SE that took a dip in a pool.