Fragility of modern source code or why semver is evil
TL;DR Dynamic “semver” versioning is evil, because it makes it too easy to break things on a global scale. With semver versioning the builds are not-repeatable: you may get one version […]
2017
Visual Studio 2017: are they kidding me?
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 Google search getting dumber?
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 […]
How WebDAV prevents PUT requests from working
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 […]
Short summary: WCF vs Remoting for Windows services
This is a short summary of differences between WCF and .NET Remoting when they are used to control a Windows service. Complete article is found here: http://www.ikriv.com/dev/dotnet/AspNetCallsWinService/index.php. Complete code examples for WCF and Remoting are […]
C# Null Propagation
It makes things so simple, I really wish other languages had it. Today in five or six places I wrote something like _innerObject?.Dispose(); instead of if (_innerObject != null) _innerObject.Dispose(); […]
WCF named pipes: no security vs transport security
I am making a little excursion into the WCF land: I need to control my Windows Service from my ASP.NET server. While experimenting, I found that new NamedPipeBinding(NetNamedPipeSecurityMode.None) on the […]
Silent conversions are evil
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 […]
State of NJ does not recognize leap years
“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 […]
Don’t give me apples that are not red!
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” […]