It’s easy to get carried away when presenting something you are passionate about. It’s even easier to counter that. Just apply the “So what?“ principle to everything you include in a presentation.
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How to design your content presentation so it’s engaging to your audience and sticks to the eight-second rule?
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How to keep the attention of our audience in a virtual presentation? How can we compete with the barrage of distractions bombarding people from every possible direction? It might be easier than you expect...
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There comes a time in every software developer’s life where they contemplate their career choice and wonder whether there might have been a better alternative. Those who push through that are the true developers, destined to do that. Some choose to go out of the tech industry altogether. There is an abundance of such people. Others, like me, choose to stay albeit in a different type of role. This blog post is for exactly such people. People who love the industry they are in but want to see another aspect of it.
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You get up in the morning. You make yourself a nice cup of coffee. You sit down to catch up on some news before starting your day. And the wave hits you like a freight train… Wildfires. Covid. Riots. Lockdown. Covid. Riots. LOCKDOWN! COVID! AAAAAAAH...
Let’s look on the bright side of things for once in 2020…
Is it still viable to develop desktop software?
What reasons are there to do so?
How to actually architecture such software?
And a lot more…
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Often, when WPF developers have to write a custom window, they find themselves drowning in countless articles, blog posts, and StackOverflow threads each depicting a different approach to the problem.
This is my view on the matter to that clutter of sources, hoping, this one, is the one that actually sticks.
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Recently we had to migrate a whole platform to new hosting and with that - upgrade the Transport Layer Security protocols.
After we did some testing, we found out something quite curious. Internally routed calls, or, simply put, internally called external APIs stopped working. We got a pretty meaningless exception, that after some reading lead us to the culprit.
When I first started working with Git (moved on from TFS), I tried numerous GUI clients in order to “simplify“ the transition. Well, numerous tries later, the CLI is my favorite friend.
During the transition process, I found out that there were some things I had to address in order to improve the semantics of our git histories and branch management. Feel free to use them as a “cheatsheet“ of your own.
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I recently read a blog post by a fellow software developer who captured the state of the modern day software development standards and inadequacies. He managed to describe the grotesque way that software products have become Frankenstein’s monsters of all the Frankensteins that have written them. It really stuck with me and I started thinking of the reasons why things are the way they are.
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This is a short story of how learning new things and knowing where and how to apply them can make you a better professional.
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