by David | Nov 7, 2018 | Automation, Tools
Today I will show how I went about automating google translate to speed up the translation of a large set of terms I needed for one of my apps, TravelRates. The actual translation is very simple, however, since it is based on the paid version of...
by David | Aug 17, 2018 | Deployment, Development
A week with cold turned productive During my travel throughout south east Asia at one point I found myself in Bali. I had hoped to get a diving certificate but having just returned from a mountain hike I instead got stuck in bed for a week. But this wasn’t a bad...
by David | May 3, 2018 | Tools
I’m currently out travelling and found that I had different time zone settings on my three cameras (phone, GoPro and digital). Easy to fix for next time but all the photos taken this far? Fortunately, *nix comes with command line tools such as touch and in...
by David | Jul 17, 2017 | Deployment
The I in SOLID stands for ‘Interface Segregation’. This is a fancy way of saying “splitting apart dependencies”. Basically, an object should not have to depend on more than it absolutely has too. If it does, it may have to be modified when the...
by David | May 18, 2017 | Development, General
When you get incoming requests and/or emergency tickets it’s important to be able to classify these properly to know whether you should stop what you’re doing or possibly if you should be doing it at all. This topic came up in my team the other day and at...
by David | Oct 9, 2016 | General
These past weeks we have focused on planning at my client. We’re figuring out the next steps in the product and this requires a lot of communication. As engineers I find that at times we focus completely at our trade. Often though, good or bad, we spend a huge...
by David | Sep 23, 2016 | Development
TL;DR; Use cases are higher level and describes to the user what a feature/story does and the user story describes how the system solves this need. My team is currently fleshing out some new features for the next version of our software and this morning I started...
by David | Sep 2, 2016 | Development
Now I use the enumerable extensions in C# a lot. First(), Single(), Select() is everywhere. However, I’ve found that there’s a few I’m missing and that sometimes they just don’t exactly suit my purposes. So, sometimes I create an additional...
by David | Sep 2, 2016 | Development, Statistics, Tooling, Tools
What is this? I got the chance to try out NDepend, although with everything else, it took me quite some time until I finally got around to picking it up. Now NDepend is a tool, both command line, stand alone and as an addin to Visual Studio which allows you to do...
by David | Aug 26, 2016 | Deployment, Development
So what’s the most pointless thing you’ve done this week? I’ve made a game to settle the score once and for all. And maybe, in the end, it’s not so pointless after all, though, if you do feel I could’ve spent my time doing something more...
