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 […]
Anyone that tried to cache static files eventually got to a point where cache caused more problems than it solved. After all, telling all your users to press Ctrl + Refresh in their browsers is not exactly how one should do things on the web. Two years ago Mads Kristensen presented us with a solution […]
A few years ago, I wrote a post on why I don’t trust 3rd party APIs. It has never been more true than today (in days of NuGet, npm and other package managers) when adding an API is a matter of seconds. Seriously, you don’t even have to break a sweat. Package managers and web […]
In olden times, when I did C and C++ development, memory leaks were a common thing. From time to time I still wake up from nightmares in which I debug, trace and try to locate and plug memory leaks (of course, as this is nightmare, I fail to do either, or it wouldn’t be a […]
At work, I got a short task of extending a varchar column in our database from 25 chars length to 50. The task seems easy enough. But, as things usually turn out, it contained a GOTCHA! The column was also a part of primary key on that table. Thus, I started to wonder. Can you […]
In 2013 Forbes reported that approximately 30,000 sites across the globe are hacked each day. Yet, for some odd reason, in 2015, I still see web applications that employ questionable password storing mechanisms e.g. storing passwords in plain text or just hashing them with md5. With 30,000+ sites hacked a day, there is a strong […]
Recently, I started to learn how to do mobile apps. Instead of classic ToDo app, that everyone is so fond of, I decided I will do a bit more realistic application. It would include, for starters a first time initialization, that would run (what a surprise!) at first run of installed app. This initialization would […]
This might be a bit of a d’oh, but if you decide to handle exception, handle it properly. What do I mean by saying “properly”? Have you ever seen code like this? var myClass = new MyClass(); try { myClass.SomeMethodThatCanThrowException(); } catch { } finally { myClass.Dispose(); } This code is stupid. Exceptions are a […]