By Christopher G. Prince Part 1 of this article covered using Chinese yeast balls to make an alcoholic rice beverage, and Part 2 covered making koji rice. In this final part of the article, I cover my experiments using koji rice to make sake. Using the koji rice in brewing My initial forays into using koji…

By Christopher G. Prince Part 1 of this article covered making an alcoholic beverage from rice using Chinese yeast balls. However, I wanted to experiment with other techniques and in this part of the article I discuss making koji rice — used in traditional sake making. Getting away from Chinese yeast balls: Making your own koji rice Another reason I wanted…

By Christopher G. Prince Making a simple alcoholic rice beverage My father fed me some of his home-made sake when I was a kid. This was nigori — unfiltered sake. So, I have fond memories of this beverage. In this new pandemic age, we keep mostly to ourselves. I’ve not been into a liquor store since…

Apple is resolving the potential security concern I had before — As I described in a prior Medium article and on a Stackoverflow post, Apple had previously provided no mechanism with Apple sign-in to have custom servers updated if the Apple sign-in user revoked their account permissions at some time within a day. There were only methods to initially verify an…

Should we adopt Apple sign-in for server-side use? — [July 2020: See also Apple Sign-In: Custom Servers and an Expiry Conundrum (Part 2)] Well, I’m making good headway on integrating Apple sign-in with my app, but it hasn’t been easy. And I still have a question — which seems like a show stopper. My purpose for writing this article…

Summary: In doing load testing with SyncServerII, mySQL deadlocks arose under certain conditions. SyncServerII enables multiple users access to shared groups of cloud-stored files. When different users access the same sharing group, a lock needs to be temporarily held to preserve user assumptions about the state of the data. …

Picture the scenario: You’ve spent an excessive amount of time getting a mobile app ready for release. You go through the typical Apple review. As part of your app, you also have Google integrations: e.g., Google Sign-in and Google Drive. And thus, you have to switch to production mode with…

I started the SyncServer (now, SyncServerII) open-source project because of a frustration with ownership of data by apps versus users. It is all too typical for an app to hide its data from users. I’ll pick on one of my mobile apps as example: WhatDidILike — which keeps track of…