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Being able to use two database engines

In the series: Football predictions in ASP.NET and Angular

The last weeks I have been pickup up the development of the football predictions website again. One of the things I realized (again) was that my home pc is quite old and limited on resources, so I don’t want to run a SQL Server in a docker container. Since I already investigated to use SQLite as a database engine, I decided to make the database engine configurable. It turned out to be a small change.

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Testing the controller

In the series: Building an arcade cabinet

Earlier this month I ordered the parts for the controller for my arcade cabinet. This week everything arrived and I took a good look at what I ordered.

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Researching audio controls

In the series: Building an arcade cabinet

In the previous post I mentioned that I want a way to control the volume. During the day I probably don’t mind putting up the volume a bit, but that is most likely not what I want later in the evening.

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Researching

In the series: Building an arcade cabinet

Last spring I started to use a very old laptop for retro gaming. Back then it was a bit of an experiment, but it turned out I use it quite often. So I decided to make the next step and investigate if I could build a real arcade cabinet.

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Recovering Blogger comments

While reading my post about recovering my very old blog again, I read the Blogger Importer docs again and noticed that it has an option to recover comments as well.

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