Yesterday, I encountered an article on Medium titled A Better Bug Tracker by Anthony Sciamanna. The author goes to great lengths describing why bug trackers are unnecessary and point to the problem in your development workflow. Further, Mr. Sciamanna quotes Uncle Bob Martin (self proclaimed Software Craftsman): “Think about what it means to use […]
It has been a long time, since I have written a post. Reasons vary. Most of it is down to my laziness and limitations to my spare time. Some of it is down to lack of motivation as well. Anyway, during several last months I have, surprisingly, learned many new things. I limited my pick […]
In a 3 day week, I only managed to learn how to get distinct IP addresses from log file. How to get distinct IP addresses from log file For a customer of ours, I had to screen two years of log files and find distinct IP addresses for certain criteria. You could check those log […]
It’s been a quiet week at work. Fixing a bug here and there, implementing minor features, writing some documentation etc etc. Hence, this weeks findings are not programming related. Without further ado, here is what I learned last week: Windows 10 app restart on unexpected shutdown (or after update restart) cannot be disabled; Solving ‘PkgMgr.exe […]
I am a firm believer of a fact, that if you are not learning anything new at your work, it is time to move out of that comfort zone, pack your bags and find a gig where you will. Lately, my work shifted and consists of 99% maintenance grunt work and 1% of actual new […]
Lately, I’ve started noticing a pattern in data layer of one of our projects at work. The pattern looks like this:
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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 != transaction) { transaction.Rollback(); } throw; } finally { if (null != connection) { connection.Close(); } } |
This repeats itself in just about every data layer method. Lines and lines of useless, repeating code for which I am also to take a lot of blame. So I thought: “There must […]
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, […]
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 […]