Two alternate approaches to access data from an Sql query I haven’t written in a while. I tend to write when something intrigues me and I believe it might have value to someone else. I was tasked to query a database and return the results in JSON format using C#…

The mathematical term symmetric difference(∆) of two sets is the set of elements which are in either of the two sets but not in both. For example: A = [1, 2, 3, 4] B = [3,4,5,6] A∆B = [1,2,5,6] Embarrassing First Attempt Embarrassingly, my first attempt at solving the problem is seen below…

My last article I was working on a spinning wheel for random list selection. This is a continuation of that project. I want my users to be able to make their own lists. In order to do that, I need to allow the users to store data. …

Least Recently Used Cache Algorithm — I practice algorithms everyday. My go to websites for algorithm practice are leetcode.com and algoexpert.io This particular problem is on leetcode.com titled LRU Cache. Least Recently Used Cache is helpful for removing old cache items thereby maintaining a fixed memory space and limiting the cache size for faster cache searches. …

React Hooks are a recent addition to React. They allow state without using classes. Although classes are still supported, the general consensus is to migrate towards React Hooks. My first foray using React Hooks was working on an open source project called Musyn (https://github.com/d-rowe/musyn) …

I recently worked on a project that involved testing various databases and horizontal scaling architecture. One of the databases was Postgres and the other Arango. Although Postgres is available as an Amazon-Linux-Extra and easily installed, Arango is not. …