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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