How async tasks work in .NET
When I was writing my previous post Should I Task.Wait() or await Task? I was slowly coming to the realization that it builds on a layer of abstraction some of us are not familiar with. …
Should I Task.Wait() or await Task?
CLR offers an excellent construct for parallel programming – a task. Instead of dealing with threads, developers only have to break their code into small parallelizable units of work, and magic happens behind the scenes. …
How to do the re-organizaion
I’ve been meaning to write on this topic for some time after publishing Why companies reorg? post. The original article covers re-organization from the employee’s point of view but leaves the manager’s perspective open to …
Complete guide to the Milky Way photography
Recently I expanded my landscape photography hobby into astrophotography territory. All it really takes to join this exclusive club is to walk outside your house at night and tilt the camera up. Everything after that …
Kawasaki Ninja 400 ABS review after a year of ownership
I’ve been riding my motorcycle for a year now and have gotten to know it on a first-name basis. I figured out the kind of rider I am and how this machine delivers on my …
How to free disk space in C:\Windows\Installer
The technique we will be covering in this post applies to all Windows devices however an inspiration for this post came from a low powered Windows device Surface RT. One day Windows told me it …
Why companies reorg?
Being a front-line employee, deep in business trenches, putting up a good fight against the competition – your attention is focused outward. You are hammering out a new product and dreaming about blowing the socks …
The great dysfunctions of the organization
There are so many ways to screw up a business and hiring the wrong people for the job is a distinct one. Organizations are comprised of people therefore organizational problems stem from the “wrong people …
ARM vs Terraform
Infrastructure as code is a powerful concept. More and more companies are transitioning from imperative scripts to declarative models. If you are an IT guy or avid DevOps in one of those companies you might …
How to coordinate SQL database schema update with application
Nearly every application developer on planet Earth that has a web service and a database, has faced this problem. How to upgrade a database and an application that expects a specific database schema in such …