Why I am starting this blog

Lately I realized that it would be a good idea to start writing a blog about my experiences coding various stuff or analyzing the source code of various pieces of software.

So I decided to start this blog because I tend to forget what I studied over the course of the years. I feel that I missed so much not writing about these things. And surprisingly no one actually knows what I really delved into. It seems that I underestimated some of the stuff I did too, things like coding a kind of weird interpreter for C# using parts of the "Roslyn" compiler.

With this blog maybe people can see what I really do and how I really think. It can also serve as a diary to show my evolution in software engineering and programming.

So I hope you all enjoy reading this blog!

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Some software development common sense ideas

I haven't really written here in a long time so it's time to write some new things. These are just some random common sense things that seemed to short to write about individually but seem really interesting and useful to me or other people 1. There is nothing fixed in software development, all things vary by circumstances and time Remember the documentation that didn't seem that important when you started the project, well after a couple of years one the application has grown and become really complicated, no one actually knows everything about the application anymore. So now you really need that documentation. What happens if you suddenly need much more people to develop the application because of some explosive growth? Without documentation, new developers will just look at the application like they look at a painting. This actually happened to me. Maybe in the beginning of a project, a technology really helped you a lot but as the project grew, it started making things...

Some things which are often blindly applied and followed by developers which are not always good

This is probably one of the most controversial things that I have written so far but I am just tired of hearing about these things and discussing these things. Other developers that I know share part of my feelings. I would rather hear more about how people built things, overcame challenges or what new interesting ideas and concepts they implemented. Those things are really interesting and innovative, not hearing about the same theoretical things over and over again. I can just read and learn those things from 100 sources on the internet. Firstly, one of the most discussed and promoted things is agile/scrum development. I think I have been through 5-8 workshops about agile development methodology. And each time, some things differed. There is no 100% standard approach to this. Everyone uses their own version of this development methodology and seem to argue a lot that their approach is right and everyone else is doing it wrong. You go to an interview, this will be one of the first 10 t...

Some things about doing presentations that I learned recently

Lately I had to do more presentations ranging from technical ones about various technologies to other presentation about projects that I work on or even tools that I made for developers and testers. I didn't learn a big list of things from them but rather a couple of really important things to keep in mind when doing a presentation. To begin with, as a presenter your purpose is to make people understand what you are explaining first and foremost. I have seen all too many experienced developers trying to impress the audience when presenting something. They use a lot of pompous language, terms and jargon to make things seem more complicated than they really are. This is just to feed their own ego, to send a subliminal message to the crowd over the lines of: "Look at me how good I am, I managed to understand and apply these things which sound really complicated when I tell them". Imagine if they used a more simple language and a language which is less scary and intimid...

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