Devin W.C. Ryan

Hobby Tracker

I’ve decommissioned this project, with the thought that it was to broad with the intent of coming up with an idea I’d like to do that is more focused.

Hobby Tracker was working towards a mobile application with an AWS back-end to track quilts and novels/books in ‘reading lists’ of your choosing with the status.

In 2015, was an MVC5 application for tracking various things (i.e. golf scores & novels read) and presenting information in a dashboard, like your handicap for a golf course, number of books in a year, etc.

MySql.Data Reference

I previously wrote a post about configuring MySQL for use with a Microsoft MVC application.  I noticed after publishing that my application could not connect to the database and returned the following exception: System.ArgumentException: The ADO.NET provider with invariant name ‘MySql.Data.MySqlClient’ is either not registered in the machine or application config file, or could not be …

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Tracker Database v.1

Tracker Database Design

What is an application without some sort of storage mechanism behind the scenes?  Above represents my database design which I am going to go into more details about. At the heart of the database is the User table which stores user information and associates a reading list, measurement, or golf round with a corresponding user such …

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