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Posted on 04 September 2019

Posted on 04 September 2019

Pair Programming (PP) is one of the XP practices. Many modern software development companies use it in daily activities. On the other side in many places PP is treated as a waste of resources because the same result could be achieved with half of the effort. Software developers also have mixed feelings about this methodology, including me.

Posted on 20 November 2018

In one of my previous posts i've introduced Roslynator

Posted on 30 October 2018

Roslynator is a collection of code analyzers, refactorings and code fixes. It is a Roslyn-based equivalent of FxCop. To some extend it is a replacement for Resharper from JetBrains. Of course R# is much more powerfull, bur Roslyntor is also getting more and more traction recently.

Posted on 08 October 2018

In one of the projects we work at Gemotial it was pretty cumbersome to test feature branches locally. The changes very often could have an impact on MSSQL or Oracle backend. We thought it would be great if we cloud run the changes on our integration tests configuration in Jenkins. Then, use the tests results (a link to it) in merge-request description. That way we could ensure that new functionality does not break the software.

Posted on 20 September 2018

My blog always used Wordpress as the blog engine. I remember version 2.6. That was long time ago. During recent years the engine was actively developed by the community. Currently there is version 4.7.

Posted on 04 September 2018

Why there are parks in the cities? Why did city architects decide to keep those green islands?

Posted on 24 August 2018

Recently one of my colleagues asked the following question on Twitter:

Posted on 05 August 2018

I've been programming for over a decade. During that time I went through several pretty difficult scenarios in my programming assignments. I want to share some thoughts in this post.

Posted on 20 June 2018

A few weeks back I've created a survey for developers. The idea was to test my 7 dev types and potentially uncover something new.

Posted on 01 June 2018

This post is a part of How To Ship Maintainable Product series

Posted on 20 May 2018

For the last few weeks, I have been learning docker. The start with new technologies was, as usual, easy for the basics and fairly difficult for the more advanced stuff. On some stage, I found KataCoda. The service motto is: Learn new technologies using real environments right in your browser.

Posted on 22 August 2017

There are plenty of books about motivation. How to motivate yourself and others. We give ourselves something we like after finishing a difficult task. It can be a chocolate bar or an hour of video gaming. We try to motivate out employees with many benefits: free healthcare, informal Fridays, pizza days, in-house conferences etc. At the beginning it works quite fine, but as we go the effects are weaker and weaker.

Posted on 04 May 2017

This post is also available in Russian language at Softdroid

Posted on 02 April 2017

In one of my previous posts I briefly described the concept of test message. Today I wanted to explain it in more details. The need of having production system operational is self-explanatory. It is the highest priority in all businesses - be able to operate. Without any doubts regarding software quality. Users need to trust the system.

Posted on 07 February 2017

As you may know I'm a big fan of automation. I like to have things done in background and just receive notification if something happens. This saves time and allows me to forget about yet another thing to check situation.

Posted on 29 January 2017

"TD" abbreviation for Technical Debt term

Posted on 19 January 2017

In IT industry we have to learn quite intensive new things. Everything changes, but in our industry, it happens much faster. Today's buzzword is forgotten tomorrow. How do we approach that? 's annoying and silly to waste time on somethings like that.

Posted on 07 January 2017

Technical debt in software development is considered as implementing quick and dirty solutions in order to satisfy user (or deliver a sprint - Sic!). Those solutions should be paid-off in the future.

Posted on 14 November 2016

As IT community grows every year it is natural that supporting events like conferences, user group or hackathons will appear more often. Developers are attracted by free food and drinks, top speakers or new devices to test.

Posted on 06 November 2016

I'm a big fun of automation. I would even say 'what can be automated, can be forgotten' and you can focus in important things. This post happen to be next in new series called "Automation". The series came out somehow, I didn't plan it. It just seem that there are things I would like to share :)

Posted on 13 October 2016

We all suffer from having not enough time. Time to do this or that. I did some research on where is my time spent. My daily (and simplified) activities that could be automated look like following:

Posted on 30 September 2016

Since 2 years I have the opportunity to work with BizTalk. This post is one of "BizTalk series". I'll keep posting interesting tricks that are easy to do, but not so easy to find on internet.

Posted on 27 September 2016

Working with MSMQ can be hard. Windows does not provide a tool to generated or edit messages on the queue. There are plenty of tools that can do that for you. Especially I like Mqueue Viewer

Posted on 17 August 2016

In the past, there were myths and legends passed between generations. Later Gutenberg introduced printing... the knowledge started to spread across the world rapidly. This day's books are the main sources of transferring knowledge. Open-minded people read a lot. I try to stay open-minded...

Posted on 29 March 2016

Nuget is very good packed manager tool for .NET projects. We all use Nuget to get all necessary dependencies in our project. Usually, our projects are installed in Program Files or inetpub, which is perfectly valid :) Referenced dlls will be installed along with our projects. Everything is great!

Posted on 26 February 2016

WPF + MVVM is a very common way to make windows apps. It introduces the concept of data binding. We create a view-model based on one or many models and bind it to the view. Usually, it is easy... But how do you debug bindings if something is not going right? For example, you have Control Templates and styles and so on introduced in your app.

Posted on 22 February 2016

I like to meet people, discuss things related to programming, new technologies, ideas and so on. I was living in several cities and always wanted to stick to people sharing the same interests. After moving to Wrocław a few years ago I immediately joined WrocNET. At the moment I'm one of the organizers and looking forward to the next meeting :)

Posted on 27 January 2016

Communication is a substantial skill for humans. That applies also to software projects.

Posted on 01 January 2016

Logging information on how our application behaves is very often omitted or not properly handled by developers. We don't know what and when to log. We don't have a logging strategy. In this post, I' share my thoughts on this topic. Let's start with what hurt us when it comes to logging information from our projects.

Posted on 16 August 2014

A short while ago I had a task that required generating excel documents (xls) with special OLE objects. Checkboxes, to be precise.

Posted on 17 December 2013

My third ScreenCast from the Sample refactoring series is already available!

Posted on 02 December 2013

My second ScreenCast from the Sample refactoring series is already available! In polish again.

Posted on 01 December 2013

I want to share with you a ScreenCast I've recorded recently. This is the first of a whole series. The main topic of the series is: Sample refactoring.

Posted on 13 December 2012

For all who are looking for good ignore pattern. I use follow one:

Posted on 18 September 2011

When you fix a bug and you feel that it may occur in the future, don't waste time and write at least one Unit Test to check code against that bug.

Posted on 15 September 2011

This is often daily scenario in programmers work. Work day is about to end, You are in a hurry with finishing coding, just final commit and go home :) Looks natural. Save your work somewhere. Not so fast my friend!

Posted on 01 June 2011

In .NET world executable files using by default configuration file with special name. Microsoft has implemented following pattern: executable: program.exe and corresponding configuration file program.exe.config. In many scenarios this pattern is fitting well, but there are some cases when something else necessary. In my situation common configuration file was desirable! One configuration file with shared app settings, configuration strings, etc.

Posted on 19 July 2010

Architecture bugs are one of the hardest to solve. To solve in a proper way ;). Almost always they affect a huge part of the system. Fixes can have an impact on all application layers because mostly a fix requires changes in more than one layer. If the system is designed according to a set of rules (i.e. is not tightly coupled) then after fixing we don't have to sit and shake because something else somewhere else may crash...