Lately, I’ve started noticing a pattern in data layer of one of our projects at work. The pattern looks like this: SqlConnection connection = null; SqlTransacton transaction = null; try { connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString); connection.Open(); transaction = connection.BeginTransaction(“transactionName”); // execute database queries and do mapping and stuff } catch (Exception) { if (null != […]
I don’t know how many of you, dear readers, remember still how it was like being a web developer in late 90s? You know, the time when not every kid knew how to do web-sites. The time of Geocities, Angelfire and Lycos. The time without Google (well, nearly). The time before cross-browser javascript frameworks and […]
This week one of our clients experienced an interesting problem. Data obtained from ORACLE database did not display unicode characters. They were either replaced by ‘?’ or some other character. This happens for one of two reasons (or in worst case scneario both). Either your database has wrong collation or your ORACLE client does. The […]
Not so long ago an application written in .NET 1.1 started to pop this error up and about. Funniest thing though, only Windows 10 clients with Creators update installed were affected. Now, we could argue, why there is still an application written in .NET 1.1 and running, but that could be a lengthy debate in […]
There has been a lot said and written about how people should log time they spend on tasks. Some claim you should log only the time you actually worked on a task, some that you should log all time, including intrusions, lunch breaks etc. And from the project standpoint, I agree with later option. However, […]
There is always interesting time, when new project is on the board. This time it was a mobile application and me and my coworkers were tossing ideas left and right. So a discussion got a turn to what color scheme should user interface use. Mostly out of fun (and some out of envy), I claimed: […]
For a task at work, I needed a mock WebApi for mimicking behavior of 3rd party API, that is not accessible from my machine. Sure enough I proceeded using line of least possible resistance and selected ASP.NET MVC Web Application template and WebAPI and ended up with bloated project that scared the life out of […]
Custom software is software that is usually done for one client, one environment and limited user base. It’s specific use case means, it won’t be sold more than once, which translates to high enough price to cover development costs. And then some. So why do companies decide to order and pay for custom software over […]
I doubt that anyone serious about tech could avoid hearing at least a little bit about NPM “disaster” in recent weeks. Some say, it is developers ego, that caused entire ecosystem to crash down. Others blame NPM for caving in to capital instead of open source. But the problem lies elsewhere. In recent years, a […]
If you are a proud developer of software sold internationally or in Slovenia, you might pay a little attention to this. It has not been noted anywhere of importance and I discovered it by chance when one of the programs I am working on crashed. Versions older than Windows 10 had the following Slovenian date […]