Most software does not start with code. It starts with understanding. That may sound obvious, but in practice we often skip this step. We get a task, open the editor, create a class, add a table, write an API, and start building. That feels productive. But sometimes we are only building fast because we have [...]
Why Words Matter in Job Titles In the tech industry, job titles carry weight. They shape expectations, influence hiring decisions, and guide how teams work together. Yet two of the most common titles-Software Engineer and Software Developer-are often used as if they mean the same thing. On the surface, this seems harmless. In reality, the [...]
This is my professional side, but not every professional story needs to be formal. These are a few moments from my working life, from early software engineering days in the 1990s to the present. Colleagues, offices, long days, strange setups, team outings, headshots, and the occasional reminder that a career is also made of [...]
For many of my projects at one time or another there was a need for a Windows service. With Visual Studio, debugging a Windows service is relatively straight forward but it happens fairly often that after the debug session the Windows service keeps running. With a running service you can't build anymore because the binaries [...]
In this post I will describe the Git branching strategy that we use. This “model” consists of a set of procedures that the development team must follow to manage our development. This model is based on a number of assumptions on how our development is setup. When these assumptions change our branching strategy (and CI/CD) [...]
As stated by Microsoft: "Using the MVVM pattern, the UI of the application and the underlying presentation and business logic is separated into three separate classes: the view, which encapsulates the UI and UI logic; the view model, which encapsulates presentation logic and state; and the model, which encapsulates the application's business logic and data." [...]
Without further ado, here is a javascript class that can be used to call a WCF REST web service: // ---------------------------------------- // ---------------------------------------- // Class WcfService // // Dependencies: // JQuery // // ---------------------------------------- // Constants // ---------------------------------------- WcfService.URL_LOCATION_LOCAL = document.location.protocol + "//" + document.location.host + "/"; WcfService.DATATYPE_JSON = 'json'; WcfService.CONTENTTYPE_JSON = 'application/json; charset=utf-8'; WcfService.MSG_PREFIX [...]
For my current project we need to validate IBAN numbers. IBAN numbers are validated with an ISO 7064 mod-97-10 calculation where the remainder must equal 1 static public bool Validate(string iban) { // pre-conditions if ( string.IsNullOrEmpty( iban ) || (!Regex.IsMatch(iban, "^[A-Z0-9]") ) ) { return false; } // clean-up IBAN iban = iban.Replace(" ", [...]
Starting from MVC 3 and up this issue has been addressed. From MVC 3 and up underscores in HTML attributes are automatically converted to dashes. Here's an example: @Html.TextBox( "tbxOne", "", new { @data_id = "someId", @style= "width:120px; text-align:right;" }) This wil result in: <input data-id="someId" name="tbxOne" type="text" value="" />
