In the previous post about Topshelf and Quartz.NET I mentioned that there is a chance to configure the inversion of control container instead of manually pointing which implementation we want to use. In this post, I will explain how to do just that, using a few popular inversion of control containers – Ninject and StructureMap. If you prefer any other container, please let me know. I’ll do my best to include it here. Plain projec...

How often in your code do you see ifs checking whether the object is not null? Often? Very often? What would happen if you didn’t have to check it out? Surely code would be easier to maintain – no ifs = no test cases. This can all be achieved using Null Object pattern.

Often developers as a log store use text files, system events, output console or database. In some cases they use distributed systems such Splunk or Elasticsearch. In this article I would like to present how to store logs in the form of objects, rather than plain text, which also offers all sorts of graphs and charts called dashboards.

Every programmer when working with databases will use a framework, which facilitates and speeds up development time. It is no different with me. I never liked ADO.NET. Taking out the data and storing it in a DataSet or DataTable that were not strongly typed is not a best idea. Especially when someone else on the later stage had to work with this code and no one actually knows what the author had in the mind writing it. For many years, I enjoyed the heavi...

Design patterns which I would like to present in this post are well described in the book Design Patterns. Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software  written by The Gang of Four (Gramma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides). In my opinion this book is must read for every developer, regardless what programming language you are using. Besides the fact that this book was written more than 20 years ago, it still contains a lot of useful details for developers of all levels. I often revisit this book to keep in touc...