A little bit about aspect oriented programming (AOP)
For the last few couple of years, as the hardware kept getting cheaper and more powerful, the programming languages core concern has been moved from performance to clarity and maintainability.
While in the past you had to keep asking yourself which algorithm was the best to, say, iterate over [...]
The "Beyond The Buzzwords" series is focused on giving those who are starting to write automated tests a practical overview, so that they begin to get a grasp on the mechanics of doing it. Also, to encourage those who don’t do it yet to begin doing so. That said, the idea is to not be [...]
Today’s post is about more than a simple punctual matter that I’ve come across at some moment in my day to day activities or on my restless nights of endless hacking.
Despise my overall remarkable programmer geekiness, I am first and foremost a philosopher. As a consequence to that, I love to I/O - big essays [...]
This remembers me of the good ol’ crazy nonsense errors from Oracle:
The screen is all blurred to maintain privacy because that’s my work PC.
I’ve got this pretty awesome message by trying to save a file during a build. That’s the kind of thing that makes a programmer day.
For the last few weeks, I’ve been working with PayPal API at my job. Besides the usual PayPal payment method, PayPal provides a direct credit card transaction solution too and it’s named Website Payments Pro. When we’re dealing with credit card numbers, we should be careful with fraudulent, illegal and false number cards. In my [...]
Imagine the following scenario: You have a project that you just developed in your local machine and want to deploy it into the CI (Continuous Integration) and approval environments. In this project, there is a configuration file (app.config) that contains a few settings, for instance, connection strings and log file directory.
Quite common isn’t it? So, [...]
It has been around 4 months that I have been playing with ruby and rails for personal projects and the fun and efficiency of working with it is pretty much awesome to say the least - specially since I love doing web applications and, even though I enjoy developing with C#, I totally hate doing [...]
