toraritte‭

I read posts (e.g., 1, 2, 3) that recommend triggering a CI build process by pushing an empty git commit. I don't understand how this is a good idea as the commit history will be peppered with mea...

3 answers  ·  posted 28d ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 3d ago by matthewsnyder‭

Our organization (blindness non-profit in California) is obligated to submit reports to grant organizations (e.g., Department of Rehabilitation) on a regular basis. Most of the time, this means exp...

1 answer  ·  posted 25d ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 24d ago by toraritte‭

All of these projects use Microsoft's OpenXML SDK for Office behind the scenes: 1. .NET (F#, C#) The F# Guide recommends NPOI, which also seems to be the most popular and most up-to-date, but the...

posted 25d ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 24d ago by toraritte‭

Found an article about starting a repo with an empty commit. Read the post a couple of times, but still don't understand the reasoning: 1. git log and other commands blow up with terrifying ...

2 answers  ·  posted 27d ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 27d ago by Michael‭

Found this old article at the bottom of the search results to be the best explanation to date: (The longer version is here, SSL Handshake (Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 R...

posted 5d ago by toraritte‭

Based on the SO comments, this is not a good general practice, and I believe the point of the posts mentioned in the question is that it can be done (but one probably shouldn't) this can be use...

posted 28d ago by toraritte‭

More specifically: Is there a dedicated docs page listing "properties" that are idiosyncratic to F# .fsproj project files? Why am I asking? Started learning F# a couple of days ago, but just now ...

1 answer  ·  posted 22d ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 22d ago by toraritte‭

Found the example below in a book teaching logical database design, but I'm stuck on how one would implement this in PostreSQL: The diagram reflects the following business rule: An instructor...

1 answer  ·  posted 2mo ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Derek Elkins‭

I would like to download the old-time radio show I Love a Mystery from the OTRR website. I figured out how to construct the list of right URLs, const urlStub = "https://otrr.org/OTRRLibrary/jukebo...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 3d ago by Zer0‭

Quoting an answer from SO: Perhaps there was an advantage years ago prior to version 1.17.12 which added the --root option to rebase. Nowadays though, I can't think of any reason to start with a...

posted 27d ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 27d ago by Michael‭

Just getting into F#, finally figured out how to add .NET packages to projects, but the way I managed to get it to work doesn't make sense. Once the package is installed (either with nuget or paket...

2 answers  ·  posted 24d ago by toraritte‭  ·  last activity 22d ago by toraritte‭

For example, given this function head, this is the hint that is generated: let updateCell workbook sheetIndex rowIndex columnIndex value = // XSSFWorkbook -> int -> int -> int -> stri...

0 answers  ·  posted 15d ago by toraritte‭

Are any of the popular Excel .NET projects have a functionality similar to Apache POI's DataValidationEvaluator class?

1 answer  ·  posted 15d ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 13d ago by toraritte‭

I have little to no idea what happens after a client obtains the server's certificate. It has to make sure that it (somehow) valid, but how?

1 answer  ·  posted 5d ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 4d ago by toraritte‭

On top of values seemingly coming from nowhere in multiple columns, they also affect each other's behavior: In the GIF below, if the cells in the left column have no value selected, then there is n...

1 answer  ·  posted 14d ago by toraritte‭  ·  edited 14d ago by toraritte‭