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Embrace the shame; or how to get hired leveraging the hate towards Ruby (and Rails).

Feb 7, 2024 · 9 min read · If you have been following any popular developer creator on social media in the past few years. It would probably be safe to assume that you already know, the only way someone can possibly get hired in this industry is by picking up React with Typesc...

Integrating Azure B2C OAuth2 (Authorization Code Flow) with an Electron App

Aug 22, 2021 · 7 min read · Introduction Recently after investigating a few cloud based identity providers (AWS Cognito, Okta, Auth0) as potential replacements for an aging rails applications authentication system. We eventually decided to give Azure B2C a try since we were alr...

Re-Packaging GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) for MSIX in the Windows Store

Jun 9, 2021 · 2 min read · Challenges When launching the packaged application the executable is unable to find the location of critical DLL files needed at runtime. Experimenting with the DynamicLibraryFixup shim from the package support framework seems to introduce other issu...

Re-packaging Reader Rabbit 1 & 2 for MSIX in the Windows Store

Apr 19, 2021 · 2 min read · Challenges Reader Rabbit 1 & 2 were originally released in the early 90s and the original installation media can no longer be used to install on modern machines. The workaround install method of simply copying the CD contents to the computer & runnin...

Re-packaging SketchUp 2019/2020 for MSIX in the Windows Store

Apr 14, 2021 · 3 min read · Challenges The default installation of Sketchup 2019/2020 requires access to read and write files to the local program data directory on the machine which is not permitted by MSIX. This causes the application to be unable to set/verify the licensing ...