Why I don’t like SQL
Had a discussion with some friends where I said I don’t like SQL and consider it an atavism. They disagreed and said that SQL is a very insightful language and […]
Software Development
TFS and the KISS principle
How do you copy an SVN label to a folder? svn serverpath/tags/label destdir How do you copy a TFS label to a folder? Watch my hands: mkdir destdir cd destdir […]
One Hour Iteration, or How Much Agile is Too Much
Agile programming is called “agile” because it provides faster feedback cycle than traditional methods. In the traditional world, first you write a functional specification document. Then you have the users […]
Some anti-patterns I am experiencing first hand
I am working on a rather interesting WPF project, which “implements” so many anti-patterns I had to blog about it. The most interesting thing about this project is that it […]
VS 2008 unit test host cannot run tests in one thread
Our UI code is single threaded and UI classes use some shared static data. They work just fine, but the unit tests sometimes fail. Investigation led to threading issues. Visual […]
Temporary Measures
Temporary measures of today tend to become the legacy of tomorrow.
Where to put log files in Windows?
Following up on the previous post. Linux (and UNIX in general) has a centralized location for logs: that’s /var/log. Windows does not. The original idea was that you are supposed […]
Data flow diagrams
Just explained my project to a new team member and realized UML does not have standard way of expressing data flow diagrams. Indeed, it is an object-oriented toolset, and data […]
Should URLs depend on underlying server technology?
I ran into an interesting problem when I was brushing up my web site lately. Let’s say I had a static HTML page named http://www.ikriv.com/page.html. Now, I decided to use […]
About Time Zones and Humility
I am discovering for myself the world of RSS, ATOM, and blog feed aggregators. I tried to find out what’s the difference between RSS and ATOM (here is a good […]