This Dot Life

A decade long of NotImplementedException

10 years back this day, I officially kick-started my "this.life". I have come a long way since then and as usual I did not realized that today till end of the day and a small incident which pushed me to evaluate my geek journey. I am just planning to journal my 10 years of experience, learning, memories and conclusions in this post. Readers, if you looking for anything technical or code solution, please skip this and help bump-up my bounce rate, thanks for visiting :) Bill's Skill I was sta » Read more

Jsinh Final 31 January 2020

XCode license must be accepted in order to be connected and working against the Mac

So, I recently refreshed my Mac - I use it for Xamarin development and while I am travelling or to show off :D I use it in conjunction of my awesome Windows Desktop Build with VS2017. So I follow the drill, install Mac - update all things - setup iTunes etc. This time I started with Brew first to install NodeJS - even before I installed XCode or Xamarin - Brew suggested to install XCode command line tools so I installed it (almost there, hang on). Then I installed XCode (v8.3.2 in my case » Read more

Jsinh Final 10 July 2017

Meet Thanos - My version of "God's Own Machine" (2017)

THE IDEA "God's Own Machine" - Always loved this term, not sure who coined it but read it first from Scott's Blog long back. All right - back in Early 2014, I decided to create my own build (custom assembled desktop computer) and I came up with a build that I call "Triga". Follow the link for more details of it. Three years later while using Triga day and night, I started feeling to do an upgrade and create a better build to keep up with the new tech / gadget's trend. Plus, this one was dy » Read more

Jsinh Final 09 February 2017

Change default NodeJS - npm and npm-cache directory on Windows

Developers mostly like to take control of your machine and how things work on it. This time I decided to take control where NodeJS would restore my global packages and manages package cache. In this case I am referring to Windows 10 particularly as that is my core development platform. By default NodeJS gets installed in C:\Program Files\nodejs folder (assuming you are installing nodejs - Windows x64 version). After installation lets say I wish to install http-server package so I can run s » Read more

Jsinh Final 03 November 2016

Error: StrongTypingException: The value for column 'IsPrimaryKey' in table 'TableDetails' is DBNull

Using MySQL community server in one of the projects I have been working on. Few days back I reset my machine and installed latest version of MySQL server - v5.7.12 (development mode). This started giving me error on "update from source" in EntityFramework (EDMX) - design first approach. Unexpected exception occurred when generating the model. See output window for more details. Exception message : 'StrongTypingException: The value for column 'IsPrimaryKey' in table 'TableDetails' is DBNul » Read more

Jsinh 01 June 2016