C#: Make base class containing common tests abstract
I was testing various sorting algorithms, so I had a base class that SortTestBase that contained actual tests and accepted the algorithm in the constructor, and derived classes that supplied […]
Where is my 3D Earth?
I heard all the buzz about 3D Earth view in Google Maps, but it did not work in my Chrome browser at home. I initially thought Google is doing some […]
Git: remember to use ––no-ff when merging feature branch to master
A few days ago I ran into a situation when I forgot to add –no-ff when merging a feature branch into master. The result was a mess. State before the […]
How to do console output in WPF
If you wish to access standard input and output in your WPF app, you will have to compile it as a Console app and fire up the WPF application object […]
Insane Apache RewriteRules
I have just spent a few fun hours fighting Apache rewrite rules in an .htaccess file. It turns out that temporary redirects just work, but permanent redirects require RewriteBase! Frankly, […]
Cloning an Azure virtual machine (long)
I needed to move my virtual machine from one MSDN subscription to another. There is a “Move” option in Azure portal, but it works only if you can access both […]
Template Factory Builder
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 App on Ubuntu: you need libunwind8
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 […]
Historical Roots of Political Anti-Patterns in Software Development
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 […]
TaskTimer: how to execute task on a timer
Over the week-end I created the TaskTimer class that allows to execute code on timer in an async method: static async Task DoStuffOnTimer() { using (var timer = new TaskTimer(1000).Start()) { foreach (var task in timer) { await task; DoStuff(); } } } Source […]