Watch out for burnout

Photo by nikko macaspac on Unsplash Working from home? How do you feel about it? I don't know about you, but from my experience working from home can lead to serious overwork and health neglect. When you have the working environment set-up at your home you can easily disregard your personal time and break the work-life balance. What … Continue reading Watch out for burnout →

10 steps for a good code review

Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash 1. Understand the problem Of course the first thing every code reviewer should do is to get himself familiar with the concrete problem which the implementation is meant to solve. You have to read the acceptance criteria, discuss them with the BA and with the developer to get the … Continue reading 10 steps for a good code review →

Connect to inactive node on clustered environment through SSMS (SQL Server)

If you are using Azure SQL Server and you have already configured a clustered environment to implement a high-availability architecture in Azure SQL database you will have one active node.The rest will be accessible only in read-only mode.When you connect to some of the inactive nodes through SQL Server Management Studio and try to open … Continue reading Connect to inactive node on clustered environment through SSMS (SQL Server) →

Software product as a musical instrument

Let me introduce you Bob and Chris. Bob is a musician. Chris is a software developer. Bob plays different instruments. But today he decides to play a rock song, so he chooses a guitar.Meanwhile Chris, who is a great full stack developer, is thinking of creating a public web site to promote his services as … Continue reading Software product as a musical instrument →

10 tips for a pleasant and productive software engineer’s everyday

Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash 1. Stand up every hour Yeah, it sounds trivial, but it is quite important not only for your health, but also for your focus. You can create a habit to stand up frequently or to make an effort to remind yourself by setting a timer. A pretty nice thing is the height adjustable … Continue reading 10 tips for a pleasant and productive software engineer’s everyday →

int type exceeding values loop

There is an interesting fact about the Integer type in C# in the cases where its values exceed outside of the limits. C# wraps around the int values and if you exceed the max value it starts from the min again. I will best illustrate this with the example below: Lets use the 32 bit … Continue reading int type exceeding values loop →

Parsing text from PDF using c#

While working on a project, I came across a requirement to extract some information from a PDF document. The tricky part was that only particular pieces were needed and not the whole text. Technology-wise I was using .NET as a platform and C# as a programming language. I was thinking of a way to accomplish … Continue reading Parsing text from PDF using c# →

Software development entropy

The chaos The law of entropy is driving the whole universe. The term means that all things strive to chaos and disorder. The molecules of everything are constantly trying to scatter in space. Only an applied external force is keeping all parts arranged and in some kind of order.So remember the chaos is everywhere around … Continue reading Software development entropy →

Search for an object in SQL Server

Photo by Oleg Ivanov on Unsplash If you have a big database structure with lots of databases, plenty of tables, views, stored procedures, functions, etc., sometimes you are lost in all the objects in your server. The good news is that there are ways to handle this situation. sys.objects view You can easily find an object in your … Continue reading Search for an object in SQL Server →

Interview me

Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash We all have been through the process of hiring. We have been participating in interviews and have tried to sell ourselves. Our aim is to show our skills set and to advertise the professional individuals we are. We want to shine, we want to be appreciated, we want to … Continue reading Interview me →