My main area of expertise in my everyday work, is actually cleaning 😉 And no, it’s not Tony Soprano style of cleaning, but working on making the codebase better. I really enjoy refactoring, applying good practices, and seeing Sonar stats going up. Therefore, when I…
DB-related knowledge in the current age seems to be polarized. On the one hand, ORMs’ (and other similar solutions) creators are trying to abstract away as much possible. On the other hand – we have very specific use cases, where in-depth knowledge of DB configuration…
My journey into C++ started with the author of the language himself – Bjarne Stroustrup. Unfortunately, I can’t say that our first meeting bore fruitful results. To be honest, I’ve jumped to the other sources right away after I was done reading. Why ‘Tour of…
In my pursuit towards better understanding of low-level concepts, I’ve finally reached the bottom of it. How, you may ask? By diving into assembly language. Nowadays, I think that there’s no lower level than this. Obviously, I did not go there blindly. I was sure,…
As I’ve mentioned a couple of times – I’ve been around programming for quite some time. My first programming experience was rewriting BASIC programs from programming magazine called ‘Bajtek’. Hardware was Timex 2048, and I was circa 6 years old. As this was year 1990…