Demo posts are one-off experiments, a testing ground for ideas that do not fit into current projects.
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NCBI provides a web interface to run BLAST searches. However, it is also possible to download the databases to search locally. This post shares the process of downloading the BLAST+ suite of command-line tools, setting up the Swiss-Prot database, and performing a simple blastp search. The source code is available
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This post presents an example of using workflow sets in the tidymodels framework with cross-validation and varying recipes and models. The dataset in use is Pima Indians Diabetes. The previous post established the baseline accuracy of 73%. The goal for this time is to improve upon this number. Preliminary This
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This post walks through a starter analysis of the Pima Indians Diabetes dataset using R. The dataset has been sourced from Kaggle - one of the data sources mentioned in the previous post. The dataset is in tabular format. Each row represents a patient of Pima Indian heritage. The columns
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The last three toy projects showcased on this blog are Arithmetic Trainer, Achievement Quantifier, and Noter. Besides being written in C#, the commonality between all three is involvement of randomness. Arithmetic Trainer generates random practice questions. Achievement Quantifier uses AutoFixture to generate random data for unit testing. Noter uses Bogus
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This post is a short demo of using ADO.NET to insert and query data against a SQLite database. The source code is available on GitHub here. Context The example data are achievements - anything that can be quantified and occurs on a certain date: public sealed class Achievement { public
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Calendar Explorer - an app for viewing different time periods - such as days, weeks, quarters, and times of day - and navigating between them using intuitive swipe gestures and a time scale picker. In other words, it imitates the functionality of a typical calendar app. This post details the
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Developing an application and running it from an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is one thing; distributing it to users is a whole other level of complexity. This post approaches this complexity by exploring one specific case, divided into manageable steps. The starting point is a "Hello World"-like
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This post showcases how to take a project from the Pluralsight EF Core 8 Fundamentals GitHub repo and make a few tweaks to it. This post serves as a reminder to oneself of completing the EF Core 8 Fundamentals course this week. Adapt The first step is to choose a
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This post gives an overview of .NET templates, which are starter structures for solutions, projects, or individual files. As an example, the default .NET template for a new solution includes only the solution file. It can be customised to include additional items, such as a .gitignore file and a README.
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This post examines how to import data into Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB while staying within the free throughput limit of 1000 Request Units per second. It also showcases the use of Bicep templates, as well as the Bogus and ShellProgressBar C# libraries. The source code is available on GitHub
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This blog post documents a process of taking the app built in the Simple ToDo-List tutorial and slightly modifying it. The codebase is here, the pull request with all changes described in this post is here Get Ready The project codebase lives in a GitHub repository, which requires a name.
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This blog post showcases a process of Yamesant developing a small Products Search project. The project exposes a single API endpoint to find products in a MongoDB collection. The collection is small (on the order of thousands of documents) and read-only. There is no simpler starting point. The search request