How to mint Salesforce CDP access token
Salesforce offers a super cool metadata-driven platform that businesses shape to their needs. Anything a user can do in the UI, a developer can also do via the API. This is great for you as …
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How to rent your apartment
A friend of mine decided to rent his unit and reached out to me with a few questions. As I usually do, instead of just providing the specific answers to specific questions, I decided to …
How astronomic plate-solving works
Plate-solving is a technique used by astrophotographers to align the telescope in the sky very precisely using a star pattern matching algorithm. Aligning the telescope via plate-solving is not only easier but also significantly more …
How to do Scrum right, 5-minute crash course
The agile development methodology is nothing new these days. Since its inception in the spring of 2000, it has proliferated through the industry like a wildfire through the dry brush. Every one of us has …
Coding in React.js – JavaScript, actions, state, and localization
React.js is a developer-friendly framework for building interactive web applications. It takes the rich and verbose world of DOM and JavaScript runtime available in the modern browsers and packages it in easy-to-understand rules. No wonder …
Protect the home network with your own PKI certification authority using OpenSSL
Most home computer networks are not secure. At best, wireless networks are protected with a password. However, once the computer joins the network, a moderately skilled hacker can sniff most of the traffic, with the …
Sky-Watcher SynScan V5 hand controller firmware upgrade
Recently I had to spend a decent amount of time researching how to upgrade Sky-Watcher SynScan hand controller firmware on my EQ6-R Pro mount. Despite official documentation, a number of forum discussions, and a handful …
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 …