The most difficult thing in any company is to change it’s culture. You see, companies are used to operate in certain frames of mind and they do not accept change lightly. Also, people have the tendency of sticking in comfort zone. Working in standard and set ways is nice and comfy. Why on earth would […]
In my 15 year career, I have yet to encounter a software company in Slovenia, where code review would be a part of work process. It is surprising how many companies just don’t care what kind of code they produce. And this is exactly the reason why most software originating from Slovenia, well, sucks.
There are some things that are unreasonably difficult even in this day of age. Well, not exactly difficult. Let’s say programmer unfriendly. For instance, opening a new mail window in your default mail client from windows .NET application. Preferably with address filled in. Google for it and you will get the same answer I did. […]
If you want to sell software to me, you only have to follow these three simple rules: Do not lie to me. Have full featured trial version. Respect me. Sounds simple right? It is. Except, there will always be that smart sales person that will say something like: “Why don’t we let users download […]
Unit testing has been around for ages (or at least since 1986, when IEEE standard on unit testing was confirmed). It still surprises me, though, how many people just won’t do unit testing. Reasons they state differ, but most of the times I hear something along the lines of: “Unit testing is too time consuming […]
I think every developer, specially in-house one, gets once in a while assigned a project he or she hates. OK, so perhaps hate is too strong of a word. Still, if it happens too often, nobody could resent the use of word hate. Anyway… I stumble on this sort of project once every three to […]
At my current gig, it is an outright chore to get a telephone number of an employee you want to call. There are actually two ways to go about doing this task. You can open Lotus Notes client, find an news-desk application, open that, locate address book document, open the document, open excel file and […]
At my present gig, there is this .NET web application for scheduling and requesting approvals for vacation and other absences, that I wrote two years ago. The application gets a bit of an upgrade from time to time, so that it runs smoothly and so that we improve user experience. But there was one thing, […]
You worked on a project for months. You made kazillion overtime hours to implement yet another feature that made it look just a little bit more like a rocket. It is your baby. You are proud of it. It cannot be crashed by a meteorite hitting Earth, it runs faster than the speed of light […]
For a project of mine, I needed to export Telerik report to PDF, Excel and Powerpoint. Now, first two options you get out-of-the-box when using Telerik.Reporting dll file. The third one, however, is a bit more tricky. Setting a format to PTTX in RenderReport method of ReportProcessor will return rendering exception. Quick Google search led […]