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2026
For two years every Windows release of Trucking Hub’s desktop app went through my laptop, because that is where the signing token was. How we moved an Electron app to Azure Artifact Signing and an Azure DevOps …
What AGI means, who gets to define it, and why the people building it started warning us in the same week NVIDIA said it had arrived. Three incidents this summer are the evidence.
My father was a mathematician who became a software engineer at Energoinvest in Sarajevo, built the computers I grew up on, and taught at a technical school. His birthday was recently, so let me tell you his story.
Nobody starts with credibility. It is an output of writing in public, not a prerequisite for it. Why the question ‘who am I to write?’ is backwards, and why you should publish anyway.
- Dobrodošli u vrli novi svet (Serbian) May 22
AI više nije napredni autocomplete, postao je sposoban član tima koji menja čitav lanac rada. Šta to znači za inženjere, lekare, advokate i sve nas, i kako da iskoristite trenutak.
2022
This text present one approach to Software Development called Interface-Driven Development. Its purpose is to make software design better and more efficient.
How we can ensure (automatic) high code quality in .NET even before code review? By using static code analyzers and some other tools.
2021
Continuous integration and Continuous deployment are an important part of modern software development practices and DevOps. It brings to software development teams a focus on fulfilling business requirements, code …
Web developers in the modern era often create different kinds of Web APIs and publish them to some platforms. In recent years probably some Cloud platforms. These APIs are then consumed by some SPA applications (React, …
2020
Ten books, language-agnostic, from Clean Code and The Pragmatic Programmer to SICP and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, plus honourable mentions - and why the author of a book is usually the next best …
What you can actually build with .NET, and with which part of it: .NET Framework, .NET Core, Mono and Xamarin, written in 2020 as .NET 5 was about to fold them into one.
- COBOL Strikes Back May 15
From time to time we hear about COBOL, that there is demand for it. What is it and why it is happening now?
Sharing knowledge is one of the main pain points in today’s software development. It also promotes innovation and developers productivity within developer teams. So, how we can produce a framework for sharing …
2019
A reference list of the things every C# and .NET developer should know: the CLR and garbage collection, async, LINQ and Entity Framework, debugging, profiling, and testing, with the nice-to-know topics separated out.
- Clean Code Best Practices Jun 11
Being a developer these days involves sometimes developing features and fixing bugs at a fast pace, which can result in code that is difficult to maintain in the long-term. In other cases, we want to make the most …
My strong opinion is that it is a must. A developer learns plenty from tutorials and examples, but nothing replaces a good book: tools and frameworks come and go, the thinking behind them stays.