TL;DR: wrapping existing method DoSomething(MyData data), with an identically named generic extension method DoSomething<T>(T data) is a bad idea, since it erases compile-time type checking. DoSomething() may now be called […]
Today I spent several hours trying to find out why this code does not work: function doit() { return someObject .method1() .method2(); } but this one does: function doit() { […]
Coming back from .NET Framework, it feels like Win32 API was invented by some rather cold people with total disregard for the well being of the application programmers. Every other […]
This Friday I wrote a unit test and to my astonishment I have found that “a” < “A” < “ab”, with .NET InvariantCulture and InvariantCultureIgnoreCase string comparers. That means that .NET […]
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, […]
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 […]
I wrote a tool called “IsItMySource” that can list source files of a binary and, more importantly, check whether particular source directory matches the binary. The description is here: https://www.ikriv.com/dev/dotnet/IsItMySource/index.php. The […]
The default git merge is usually all you need, but if you have to deep deeper, you’ll find that git merge command has very weird looking and confusing options. I […]
As part of one of my projects I needed to use Microsoft DIA SDK. In particular, I wanted to retrieve source files checksums stored in PDB files. DIA SDK is a […]
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 […]
