General Software

Top Developers Are Not Paid for Coding

TL;DR — There is this misconception that top Software Developers are appreciated due to their technical coding skills, for example how fast they can code a solution to a problem. While coding is very important, the real strength of top developers comes from…

What is Serverless Architechture

TL;DR — There is a server. It is not a “my-on-premises-Linux-box” kind of server, but there is one at the end. Perhaps it is just not yours and looks and feels a little bit different from the developer’s perspective.

Dangers of the ‘nameof’ Operator (c#)

TL;DR — The are hidden dangers in the ‘nameof’ operator in c# 6.

Lately I have witnessed developers use new features that were presented in c# 6. My problem is not with using the new features, but with developers blindly refactoring their…

Object Pooling in .NET

TL;DR — A short and high-level explanation of object pooling technique with C#

The web is just a delivery mechanism

TL;DR — The web is just a delivery mechanism and your web browser is just another I/O device.

OOP destroyed encapsulation

TL;DR — Object oriented design did not bring encapsulation principles to software development, it broke it.

Many of my friends go to job interviews for software engineering positions, and the question they are asked a lot is “what are the advantages of…

How to open 2 instances of Windows Media Player

TL;DR — Kill the Mutex!

Have you ever tried opening up 2 instances of Windows media player (WMP)?
Did you ever wonder how come you are able to open as many instances of Chrome as you like but you can open only 1 WMP…