Lots of developers do pet projects besides their job. Things are pretty straightforward when you work alone. You code some functionality, then commit the changes and push it to the repository like GitHub, Bitbucket or Gitlab. Simple is that. But at some point, your code might turn into a full product. Folks start using it, new contributors come and your repository becomes their workspace as well. As you probably guess, if you want to keep the control over t...

Last night I started working on my new tech presentation which is going to consist mostly on live demos. Because of limited time (which is usually about 50 minutes) and few topics to discuss, I decided to use code snippets in my Visual Studio Code. Thanks to that, I’ll focus more on the „talk flow” rather than my typing which is not so good when I’m stressed.  Creating snippets in VSC Let’s start with creating an example C# snippet just to present the way it works....

Microservices are still pretty popular in our industry since they imply lots of benefits. However working with that kind of architecture might be annoying when it comes to commit the changes using GIT. Why? Simply because in a common approach, each microservice should be put in a separate repository. Therefore, instead of doing your typical „GIT sequence” once, you end up with few terminals where you do pretty much the same job. Fortunately, you can avoid that with no big deal. ...

In my last article, I presented how to run Aurelia unit tests inside Bitbucket pipeline. What’s quite funny (or may be scary for some of you) is that few hours after publishing, Facebook presented to me an add with „great CI tool” called Buddy. Without much thought, I navigated to the project’s site and I felt in love immediately. Why? There’s one reason – it’s dead simple...

It’s pretty funny to me when you think that you know some programming language quite well and suddenly you find out some feature, you’ve never heard before. I mean at all. That’s exactly what happened to me yesterday. Let’s see what’s that. Generics are very useful in programming since we can avoid writing similar code multiple times. But when we start to complicate them too much, it quickly reduces the legibility of the code. Of course, I don’t claim that whe...

The end of the May comes and hence the end of „Get Noticed 2017” competition. Therefore, I’m going to do a short summary which will describe things that I’m happy about together with those that I’m not. Obviously, this post also will be the last one in the GN2017 category which contains 16 articles. Wait, what?

Today’s post is going to be super easy, especially if you’re familiar with SQL, so without much explanation let’s discuss a little bit about two clauses that you might spot later in my Neo4j & Cypher series – Union and With.  UNION clause The Union clause can be used to merge the results of two queries. There are just two restrictions:the number of columns in both queries must be the samecolumn names in both queries must be the same Let’s demonstra...

In one of my previous post, we got familiar with the graph databases concept as the opposing approach to the aggregate-oriented, NoSQL databases. As I promised back then, there’s going to be a series of post dedicated to the query language designed for querying that kind of data structure called Cypher. Today’s one starts it and it going to present the way to install Neo4j and later is going to discuss creating simple queries.  Installing Neo4j To start our j...

Almost all my career I’ve spent with relational databases (later called RDB) and more precisely SQL Server. Honestly, I’ve never complained about that. It works fine, integrating with object languages is very quick since we’ve got a lot of different ORMs (like Entity Framework or Dapper) and it’s pretty easy to learn no matter how advanced developer you are. Sounds like a perfect solution, right? I mean, think about all the companies and projects th...

For couple last days, I worked on gifty to catch up a little bit. My primal task was to introduce JWT authentication to my microservices hosted by Nancy. That’s the topic for next post but today, I’ll describe the proper steps to fully integrate Nancy with Autofac and ASP.NET Core since it’s not that obvious (at least wasn’t for me) and took me way to much time to finally do it. So, I hope that this one will help you one way or another.  Installing pa...