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A few months back I bought a new Synology NAS and decided to, on a whim, build an app for it from scratch.

I got my parents a Waveshare PhotoPainter for their anniversary.

As senior individual contributors transition from focusing on the “what" aspect of their work to the “how” (such as deciding whether to perform the tasks themselves or to help others to do it), gaining an understanding of the wider organization and its ro…

I’ve spent the last five years of my career in Staff and Principal roles and have always hit a point where I feared inertia was taking over.

I sat with Aya Shani and Eitan Masuary to chat about my career journey.

I was invited to discuss the role and evolution of the Individual Contributor track in the Software Engineering industry.

Imagine you’re joining a new role and see something that makes you go “wtaf did they think when they did this?!”

I talked to Vicky Kalmanovich about the kinds of skills we look for in software engineers and the interviews we don’t do that would test them.

I talked to Ran Tavory and Ori Lahav about my philosophies around refactoring and observability.

Refactoring has many faces.

I talked to Avi Etzioni and Gal Zellermayer about why open-plan offices should not be taken as the status quo.

I talked to Ido Kenan about my work on plaintextoffenders.com and bad password practices.

The less code in our systems, the better we are.

A dog is an animal, orders have lines of products and quantity, and multiple employees (who are also people) can work for a company.

These days sbt is the de-facto build tool for Scala, but most of us just write the minimum viable build.sbt file, import the libraries we need (and maybe throw in some sbt-assembly) and forget about it.

I’m always looking for a way to get more out of my setup.

I had a Stream of data coming in from an input source and had to do some heavily-CPU bound work.

I’m currently working on a product that is very tightly bound to MySQL.

I’ve been using Waze for a long time now and I love how it can predict very accurately how much time a drive somewhere would take.

This is my continuing series on using Project Euler to learn Scala….

This is my continuing series on using Project Euler to learn Scala….

Working with HDFS has many benefits, but there’s one disadvantage that for me, at least, was very painful and that is that it doesn’t behave like other POSIX file system.

As with when I learned Ruby, I find Project Euler to be an extremely useful way both to learn a language and its idioms and also flex my math muscles every once in a while.

Since January 2010, I’ve been working at LivePerson, as a Senior Java Developer and ScrumMaster.

(I’ve returned from my trip a few months ago, but didn’t have enough to blog about; hopefully, this is my returning to a semi-regular posting schedule; also, I’ve decided to veer off .NET in some of my posts, focusing on more issues that I like to talk ab…

In 15 days’ time, I’ll be taking off on a four months long trip around the world.

A couple of days ago I hit a regression bug in .NET 3.5 SP1, in which when you have a generic class that implements ISerializable and has static variables – you can not serialize it using a BinaryFormatter without your application either hanging (x86) or…

When index fragmentation becomes too high, indexes will be very inefficient.

I just filed a new bug with Microsoft Connect.

(I’ve noticed quite a few people were having this problem, so I decided to blog about it.

I’ve got one project in my solution which has a lot of JavaScript files and they keep on coming.

I recently wrote an engine that gets XML files stored at our clients’ servers using HTTP requests.

One of our products demands converting quite a large amount of HTML to equivalent scripts, written in JavaScript that create said HTML.

It’s been a few months since I started getting acquainted with the System.DateTimeOffset type and I can honestly say I don’t see any reason to use System.DateTime anymore….

I’ve known a bit about C# 4.0 for a while now and have had time to think about it.

Voting has been open for a few days now for which lectures will be featured at the next Microsoft Developers’ Academy.

After a couple of days of trying to run a load test for a web service on several agents via Visual Studio 2008, I come out much wiser and with a few new bald-spots, where hair I pulled out in the process used to be….

One of the nice things about LINQ to SQL is the ability to extend the types of the generated entities.

* Fabrice Marguerie, co-author of LINQ In Action, asked me to clarify that this post has absolutely nothing to do with their book and is simply meant in jest *… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback…

In a comment left by Bart De Smet, he pointed out that I failed to address the fact that the execution of all “yielding” methods is deferred….

I just love the fact that there’s a “Community Content” section to the MSDN documentation.

Here’s something I fell into today.

Here we go with the third installment of the Extension Method Roundup.

As a rule of thumb, when presented with two independent blocking I/O operations on more than one independent devices, it’s best to use threads to create parallel operations, instead of waiting for a single synchronous operation to complete.

Hey hey hey!

Post’s Correspondence Problem (the other PCP) is a computer science problem, in which you have (and I simplify matters) a set of tiles, each having any number of letters on them from a preset group.

Yesterday, in front of the staff and students at my college, I presented my final project for my C.S.

Let’s play a little game.

When using LINQ, queries may bloat up to dozens of lines.

First of all, if you’ve come here looking for how to activate connection pooling when using SSAS 2005 via ADOMD.NET, you’re in for a little surprise – there is none by design….