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Why Do Employers Lie In Interviews?
This is a very common subject that many of us have already experienced. But when you realize that half of what has been said at interviews is actually a lie, you are already at least six months in the company, you have already started some project and it wouldn’t be appropriate to leave the company at that moment. →
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Design Patterns: Factory Method
Let’s continue our series on design patterns with the Factory Method. Like the Builder or Singleton patterns we covered in previous posts, the Factory Method is also one of the creational patterns. It introduces a slightly more complex approach, offering a higher level of abstraction for object creation. Additionally, it helps decouple the object creation process from the rest of the application. →
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Keep Your Database In Sync With Application: Fluent Migrator
In this post, we continue to explore ways to free your application from being tightly bound to the Entity Framework environment. The primary goal is to offer an alternative solution that is not only more flexible and robust but also gives you, as a developer, greater control over database manipulation with less abstraction and complexity. Here, we introduce a library for database migrations, which serves as a natural extension to tools like Dapper and SqlKata. →
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Dapper On Steroids: SqlKata
Dapper is a lightweight, high-performance ORM for .NET. It is widely used because of its simplicity and speed. Dapper in its essence provides simple mapping to POCO and works with raw queries minimizing the overhead. On the other hand it lacks of flexibility in terms of query writing, because we need to write queries like static strings. One simple example is shown in the code snippet below. →
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Design Patterns: Builder
This is also, like a Singleton, one of the creational design patterns. It provides the way of creating complex objects step by step by simple chaining and every particular step is independent of other steps. →
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Make Git Log Great (Again): Merge vs Rebase
A well-maintained Git log is more than just a record of commits—it’s a story of your project’s growth, collaboration, and problem-solving. But as projects scale and teams grow, Git logs can become cluttered, making it harder to trace changes, understand context, or troubleshoot issues. →
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Book Reviews: Clean Code
Undoubtedly, one of the most popular books in software engineering, it teaches the fundamentals of software architecture, methods for organizing code, and is widely regarded as a must-read for any software developer. Written by Robert C. Martin, also known as “Uncle Bob,” the full title of the book is “Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship”. →
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Design Patterns: Singleton
Tyipically the first design pattern most people learn, often wrongly ☺ To give an introduction, we can say that singleton is one of the creational design patterns which ensures only one class instance with single point of access thru entire application. →