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Is about establishing and following a particular way of naming objects and/or processes across an organization and/or on software projects. From file/folder names to tables, variables, classes and so on. Amongst many of the benefits, this ensures consistency across an organization and makes code so much more readable and “familiar”, if that makes sense. Road … Read more
Is this article. You were supposed to write a consistent, well documented article on <random topic> or complete that project piece of code, write the best crafted unit tests, have the finest wiki documentation… But life happens: COVID-19 hits you, anniversary in the family, a (new) personal project or just plain sloth. You end up … Read more
First of all, that stands for Integrated Development Environment and you might just know this concept from your daily activities, as it is “related” to almost every product development cycle. Let me detail. Now, imagine you’re into woodworking and you want to make a kitchen table. It goes without saying that you already have an … Read more
I must admit, this scenario is a bit “fictional” for a programmer, but yet plausible (man, this term always makes me think of MythBusters and how fun that show was). Anyways, if it’s that only time in your career when you decide to go on a vacation, but just as you prepare to leave the … Read more
You want to learn how to code as a hobby or to make a serious career change but you don’t know how to do it. Here is a list of thoughts that I sincerely hope will help you on this adventure. Programming/coding/software development is about problem solving When you start looking into the hows and … Read more
When developing software or any other type of product (i.e a book or a logo) you have work in progress before you get to that final “deliverable” that you either push to source control, send to an editor or to the actual client. This happens at a small scale on a daily basis. What I … Read more
This little experiment started after realizing that I am a digital hoarder. I used to have files in my downloads folders that were so old they had Clippit all over them in their youth 🤦♂️ This obviously needs an over engineered solution, hence presenting: Le code and that Windows task (exported from Task Scheduler as … Read more
In this experiment we will look into a (simple) way to generate 1 million fake, random email addresses using SQL (SQL Server 2019 as the tool of choice, but it can be easily done with MySQL, Oracle etc). We start with a list of 1000 fake, random names obtained from https://www.randomlists.com/ Then we write some … Read more
When starting the programming journey, as in all activities that you start, you have that crazy good energy that you want to translate it instantly into something tangible, something you can immediately feel proud of. Picking your first programming low hanging fruit. You buy your first drill, of course you want to make a whole … Read more