Sunday, January 26, 2020

Generate XLSX file using C# and OpenXml package

The Following features are implemented:

  • Cell formatting
  • Cell colouring
  • Borders
  • Columns custom width
  • Formulas
  • IgnoredErrors

The resulting xlsx file looks like this:

Monday, January 20, 2020

Setup react-native for Android on Windows 10 and build .apk

As being just a newbie at react-native, I ran into many obstacles trying to setup everything for it. I spent quite a while resolving all issues, googling every bug and making my first 'pomodoro' app working. So I decided to track some steps here I did just in case I forget them and I can to refresh my memory reading this post :). Almost everything here is as is, without detailed explanation. But it works. At least for me.

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Implement TabPages in Vanilla JS and CSS

Today, as the lunch break challenge I decided to create Tabs in Vanilla JS and that's what I made:

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In descriptive writing, the author does not just tell the reader what was seen, felt, tested, smelled, or heard. Rather, the author describes something from their own experience and, through careful choice of words and phrasing, makes it seem real. Descriptive writing is vivid, colorful, and detailed.

Good descriptive writing creates an impression in the reader's mind of an event, a place, a person, or a thing. The writing will be such that it will set a mood or describe something in such detail that if the reader saw it, they would recognize it.

To be concrete, descriptive writing has to offer specifics the reader can envision. Rather than "Her eyes were the color of blue rocks" (Light blue? Dark blue? Marble? Slate?), try instead, "Her eyes sparkled like sapphires in the dark."

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To be evocative, descriptive writing has to unite the concrete image with phrasing that evokes the impression the writer wants the reader to have. Consider "her eyes shone like sapphires, warming my night" versus "the woman's eyes had a light like sapphires, bright and hard." Each phrase uses the same concrete image, then employs evocative language to create different impressions.

To be plausible, the descriptive writer has to constrain the concrete, evocative image to suit the reader's knowledge and attention span. "Her eyes were brighter than the sapphires in the armrests of the Tipu Sultan's golden throne, yet sharper than the tulwars of his cruelest executioners" will have the reader checking their phone halfway through. "Her eyes were sapphires, bright and hard" creates the same effect in a fraction of the reading time. As always in the craft of writing: when in doubt, write less.

n this excerpt from Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, notice the writer's choice of adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. Granite. Mizzling. Du Maurier's choice of words allows the reader to almost feel the weather occurring on the page.

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