Clean code by Robert C. Martin
Mon, Mar 26th 2012 12:13a Vladimir Kocjancic There are authors that suit you and there are authors that don’t. Having spent a decent amount of time to get through Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, I have found out, that Mr. Martin fails to suit me. His self admiration and belief that he is new software messiah (and as such, [...] [read] Keywords:
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.NET Custom validators – perfect tool (almost)
Thu, Mar 22nd 2012 6:10a Vladimir Kocjancic I don’t know about you, but working with .NET validators is always a fiddly job. Sure, they enable you to do quick validations, but I am yet to find an app where each field only needs one validator. And this is where things usually get interesting. Using Display=”Static” on all validators messes your display, as [...] [read] Keywords:
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Happy New Year
Thu, Dec 29th 2011 5:10a Vladimir Kocjancic This year’s post count is getting a +1. I wish you all a belated merry Christmas and a really happy, healthy and successful new year 2012. [read] Keywords:
Firefox – new release cycle observation
Wed, Aug 24th 2011 6:12a Vladimir Kocjancic So working as I always do with Firefox – you know, several windows, kazillion of tabs – I have lately discovered that my PC was running slow nearing the end of a working day. Now, for first 100 times, I just ignored the fact that my 3,33 GHz Core i5 Workstation with 4GB of RAM [...] [read] Keywords: firefox
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DB2 Data Provider for .NET
Tue, May 31st 2011 6:12a Vladimir Kocjancic As you might have read, I am lately doing a lot of stuff in .NET with DB2 as a database server. In the past, the only way to connect to a DB2 database from .NET environment was via ODBC. Nowadays, IBM provides us with DB2 data provider for .NET. On top of that, launch of [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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DB2 transactions in .NET environment
Wed, Apr 20th 2011 12:09a Vladimir Kocjancic Recently, I have been working on a .NET application that uses DB2 as a database engine. On top of that, I needed transactions as I didn’t want for SQL statements to commit if one of them failed. Needless to say, DB2 uses it’s own principle to handling transactions. Basic principle Those of you, working with [...] [read] Keywords: application
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Hopping about
Sun, Mar 6th 2011 11:08p Vladimir Kocjancic This past month I was really really silent. Reason is quite simple. After 11 years, I have decided it was time to jump ship. It wasn’t a decision one would make lightly and you can trust me, it caused several sleepless nights. Specially as this was my first real gig. Lotus Notes development will now [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
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Upgrading Sametime to 8.5.1
Sun, Jan 16th 2011 11:13p Vladimir Kocjancic I have upgraded company’s Sametime server recently. Yes, that is correct. Sametime server. Singular. We are not that big of a company per IBM measures and even if we were, we are only using IM function of it anyway, so there is no point of using more than one server. But that is not important. [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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Demo
Sun, Jan 2nd 2011 11:17p Vladimir Kocjancic A few days hence, I had an interesting debate with one of my best friends about data used in a demo. He is convinced that real user data (e.g. Name, Surname, email etc.) should be used even in a demo. I, on the other hand, am impervious to weather you use fake, real-enough or real [...] [read] Keywords: email
Android development issue no. 1
Mon, Dec 20th 2010 2:00a Vladimir Kocjancic Due to personal interest, I installed Android SDK and emulator on my machine. Now, since I am a programmer, I am most interested in actually developing applications for Android. Hence, I installed Eclipse ADT plug-in. I created a sample project, and went to edit resources. I failed miserably. I couldn’t type in the window, couldn’t [...] [read] Keywords: applications
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Top 5: How to know your company doesn’t understand software development
Wed, Nov 24th 2010 4:12a Vladimir Kocjancic 1. Your direct superior believes unit tests can replace technical documentation 2. No matter how convincing your arguments are, project manager is always right. 3. There is no sign of a bug tracking software. 3a. In a chance there is, it is not used. 3b. If it is used, it is used in totally wrong [...] [read] Keywords: bug
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Domino URL cheat sheet
Mon, Oct 11th 2010 3:28a Vladimir Kocjancic Lately I tried to integrate some C# application with Lotus Notes application data. Hence, I needed to display view contents in some way. Naturally I googled for solution on how to display view contents as JSON and came across Domino URL Cheat sheet. Even though I lately decided to go with XML display (mostly because [...] [read] Keywords: domino
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Mercurial Visual Studio Web Sites
Mon, Sep 20th 2010 3:25a Vladimir Kocjancic Before I begin, let me explain that I am a big Mercurial and Visual studio fan. Sure, there could be some improvements made in both, but all in all they are a decent product, which I gladly use on daily basis. Recently, however, I stumbled upon a nasty problem. I had to make some modifications [...] [read] Keywords:
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Microsoft WebMatrix
Wed, Jul 14th 2010 2:00a Vladimir Kocjancic Last week I got notification of new Microsoft product release. Intrigued by some screenshots I decided to download and install Webmatrix. For those that cba to go to official site, Webmatrix is a combo of upgraded Visual studio WebDeveloper, IIS 7.5 express and MSDE. What is a big plus is that it knows kung-fu… Not [...] [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Javascript string traversing
Tue, Jun 8th 2010 2:00a Vladimir Kocjancic Lately I needed to parse format that Cisco uses for specifying transfer masks and route patterns to an array of telephone numbers a user could choose from. I wrote a neat javascript function that traverses the string and does what needed. I even wrote a neat recursive function that displayed the numbers in HTML select [...] [read] Keywords: javascript
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Reinventing the wheel vs. code reuse
Wed, May 12th 2010 3:00a Vladimir Kocjancic Lately I have been marked as a ‘reinventing the wheel’ guy. I don’t object to that. After all, when I see this cool new feature, I just need to see how it was made. And since I am there, I can also test my skills and rewrite it. But is it really that bad to [...] [read] Keywords:
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Cleaning behind you
Thu, Apr 8th 2010 2:00a Vladimir Kocjancic Ending up a big project, I was brimming with confidence. The code was well structured, it ran fast despite using external web services and on top of that, it worked on test system. Oh boy, did it work. I should have seen a warning sign there. But no. I let my vanity kick in and [...] [read] Keywords:
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Web services and arrays in LotusScript
Tue, Mar 2nd 2010 1:00a Vladimir Kocjancic Recently, I was working on an agent that used a web service to export data. Now, I don’t know if you noticed, but for some reason, consuming services is way easier in LotusScript than it is in Java. As far as I know, and I could be wrong, you need to import Axis in Java [...] [read] Keywords: agent
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Software that makes you go arrrrrrgh
Mon, Feb 15th 2010 1:00a Vladimir Kocjancic Recently, I had a “privilege” to acquaint myself with numerous small business applications for Windows. First, I would like to state that there is some good software out there and kudos to all of you who deliver it. Unfortunately, such software is in wast minority. However, you can quickly detect such software. Installation process is [...] [read] Keywords: applications
