Hurrah, our project actually has a class named (Something)TemplateFactoryBuilder! What does it do? Well, it’s very easy. It takes a serialized string and creates a factory, which will produce a […]

DotNetCore provides two types of installs: framework-dependent install and self-contained install. I tried to compile a hello-world app on Windows and run it on Ubuntu that has neither dotnetcore SDK […]

Technical decisions in software engineering are often driven by politics. The architecture committee decides that “all new code should use threading library X” or “we should be moving to using […]

StartCom certificate authority that hands out free SSL certificates, is no longer recognized by major browsers. I’ve got their certificate back in May 2016, and it worked fine, but in […]

Nuget Package Manager 3.4.4 for Visual Studio 2015 does not work with our local NuGet server. Apparently, they broke something compared to version 3.3.0, some redirect or whatever. New client […]

Resharper almost keeps class methods in order, but it puts everything with a [DispId] attribute in front. Teleric JustDecompile seems to sort things in alphabetical order. Neither seems to have […]

I recently noticed that voice messages produced by Google Maps driving directions changed from “turn left onto Foobar street”, and “in 2 miles take exit 27 towards Sleepytown” to simply […]

A couple of weeks ago I ran into a problem: I had a DLL file, but I was not certain which version of the source code it was compiled from […]

In my previous project we developed server-side software, that could only be deployed to production once a week. On Tuesday night you submit the binaries to Beta environment, and on […]

A couple of minutes ago I received a call from an automated system pretending to be from JP Morgan Chase that gave me an “online access code” and asked to […]