It’s been almost a year since I did my first public speaking (related to programming). During that, many things changed including my personal point of view on that profession. It is nothing new that the first steps are the hardest, so in this post, I’ll describe my first feelings, mistakes, and moves which started my personal journey as a speaker. Since I’m still at the beginning of my way, this post will probably evolve from time to time but even thou...

I’m not a big enthusiast of hard-coded values in my apps, mostly because of three things. First, it’s really annoying to change their value if necessary (especially if one is used in many places). Of course, we can use some „find and replace tool” but to be honest I don’t fully trust them. Another thing is that in many cases we have absolutely no idea what do they represent. Let’s say we have the following of code:   PaymentService.Create(or...

As some of you might notice, I’ve not posted any new post since two weeks. There are few reasons for that including my vacations (finally) and other. But the most important one is the fact that I wanted to rest before huge programming competition. If you are not familiar with this even keep reading 🙂  Get Noticed One of the most recognizable Polish .NET developer – Maciej Aniserowicz – came up with really great and simple idea. Why not create some kind of competi...

I’ve been working as software developers since July 2014 and during that time my point of view of IT industry have changed several times. Before starting my career I had absolutely no idea about this profession but even though I loved that! Why? Simply because of my friends who talked about tons of money they were earning, lots of benefits in the office including snacks, coffee, PlayStaion, alcohol and so on. That seemed awesome! Infamously, I must admit tha...

This is one of those "I had to explain this couple times already so next time I want something I can redirect people to" kind of post. What I want to write about is difference in behavior between using new() and DbSet.Create() for instantiating new entities.

Przy okazji konferencji PolCaster 2016 (na której byłem w zeszłym roku) usłyszałem dość interesującą informację, a mianowicie: statystycznie podcast kończy się po 7/8 odcinku. Później następuje wypalenie, lub brak pomysłów i bum…koniec. O ironio mój podcast również przez chwile mógł wydać się kolejnym kandydatem do zamknięcia, ale tak jak zapowiadałem w podsumowaniu roku… POWRÓCIŁ! Nie będę się tu zagłębiał i rozpisywał nad przyczynami tak sporej przerwy (bo trwa ona on września), ale z tego miejsca wszy...

Nowadays, asynchronous programming isn’t something unusual. We all know that when it comes to do some I/O operations or HTTP request, we should do it async. Why? There’re several reasons but two most important  are:Efficiency. In many cases, the code might work faster. That’s because it’s not forced to wait for the result. Instead, it can work on some other stuff and then come back for the response when it’s ready. Simple is that.Comfort. Async improves the comfort of using our applications. We don’t blo...

Niektórzy w tej chwili lepią pierogi, próbują nie wrócić do domu z pangą, latają za zapomnianym prezentem niczym Arnold za Turbo-Manem lub w ciepłym, przytulnym domku wieszają na choince bombki. Ja z kolei mam cały dzień dla siebie i jego część postanowiłem na napisanie krótkiego posta o tym jak możecie wykorzystać enumy jako flagi i obwiesić nimi swoje obiekty tak bardzo jak tylko chcecie, a żeby zachować choć pozory świątecznej atmosfery zrobię to z małym świątecznym akcentem (takim tycim).

One thing that surprised me the most about the C# was the fact that it does not support multiple inheritances (which I knew from the C++). How can we deal with that? Of course, we use interfaces, since one class can implement more than one. But quickly we come to the very common problem...

In today’s post, we are going to explore another feature of the Aurelia framework or more precisely aurelia-fetch-client. So, in many cases, it would be nice to perform some specific actions when doing an AJAX request. For instance, before sending a request we want to log it into browser database like PouchDb. A more common example is calling a toastr on some error like 404, 500, 401. The problem with such a scenarios is that many developers duplicate their code in every single request/callback so they b...