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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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” […]