I have just installed VS 2017. Resharper for VS 2017 is not available ready yet, so I decided to at least install the Productivity Power Tools. It required 3 (three) […]

Is it just me, or is Google search really getting dumber? I am having more and more (perceived, not measured) difficulty finding things, and the search results become more and […]

The story in a nutshell: you suddenly start receiving “405 method not allowed” response to PUT requests to your ASP.NET web service. This problem hit us last September, but I […]

SendGrid e-mail server silently converts plain text e-mails to HTML, losing line breaks in the process. They have some reasoning on why this is a good idea, but I do believe […]

“Number of days for all residences cannot exceed 365.”. This is the error I got from NJ division of taxation web site when I tried to enter how many days I […]

I have just stumbled on a beautiful example of a double negative in our code. We have a function that returns a list of object, and it takes a “filterFunction” […]

I remember how Linux community used to scoff at Windows for constant restarts and boasted ever longer uptimes: “my server has been running without reboot for 5 years!”. Guess what, […]

We have added some Reactive Extensions support to our software. All went well until it went into the automated build. Nuget version 3.3.0.212 could not handle System.Reactive.Core package: it would […]

I had to create a dump of a misbehaving process on Windows Server 2012 using Task Manager. Not only did it tell me where it put the dump, the file […]

Consider the following code: Why is it false? Because Foo.prototype is in fact not the prototype of Foo, but the prototype of objects created via expression new Foo(): As for […]