Newtonsoft.Json package is probably one of the most essential packages in .NET software development. For those of you, not knowing what it does. It takes care of object serialization to JSON notation and deserilaization from JSON notation. I have used this package in numerous projects since its inception and I can only say great things […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You kn0w, I am amazed by abundance of videos and tutorials out there that show you, how “easy” it is to create a mobile app. Sure, creating a “Hello world!” example with a few fields and a progress bar is not difficult, but that is hardly a representative app. In real world, you would want […]
In last few months I have been assigned as a mentor to young developer who wanted to work as a student for our company. This is my first foray in being a mentor to someone, let alone a prosperous young talent. The first thing when I was told about this, panic kicked in. But then […]