Tiny tips: Git merge without commit

This is one of the "Tiny tips" series.The purpose is to share little pieces of helpful practices and tricks that will make your work better and more pleasant.Take a look at the other tiny tips like Automate your environment, Use cheat sheets. Most of the time when I am merging from another branch I don't want all …

The Frog, The Broken Window, And The Resistance

The Adaptivity There is a famous phrase from Albert Einstein which says that in this world survive not the strongest individuals, even not the smartest ones but those who are the most adaptive.And that is definitely true for most situations in life. Seriously, look at the cockroaches. They're so adaptive creatures and they can survive …

Sheet music creation with JavaScript

I did this as part of my Master's Degree thesis. It is a pretty old and clumsy implementation (I admit it) and I should revise and re-write it with some modern JS framework, following the good practices and principles, etc. Nevertheless, my idea was to create a unified platform for every musician, where he/she can …

Recursive SQL queries

Recursion Recursion is the technique in which a function calls itself from within its own body.You can find out more about what is recursion and see some examples in various programming languages, a good resource is this one. Common Table Expression It is possible to achieve a recursion within a SQL query.This is possible with …

Working and music

This is one of the "tips" series.The purpose is to share little pieces of helpful practices and tricks that will make your work better and more pleasant.Take a look at some other tyny tips like: Automate your environment and Use cheat sheets. Do you prefer listening to music while working? If so - what kind of music? …

Tiny tips: Use cheat sheets

This is one of the "Tiny tips" series.The purpose is to share little pieces of helpful practices and tricks that will make your work better and more pleasant.Take a look at the other tiny tips like Automate your environment. Upgrade your working environment by surrounding yourself with easily accessible helpers. Print out some useful (for you) …

Tiny tips: Automate your environment

This is one of the "Tiny tips" series. The purpose is to share little pieces of helpful practices and tricks that will make your work better and more pleasant. Take a look at the other tiny tips like Use cheat sheets. You know the feeling when your machine needs to be restarted and then you have …

10 software development blogs to follow

No matter what technology you are interested in or what area of software development is your favorite one there are always Gurus out there for every topic. And guess what, all of them (or maybe almost all) are writing some kind of articles with the things they know and would like to share. So the …

Workshop: Principles, practices and professionalism in software development (in Bulgarian)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoBDqeRRpLk This is a workshop organized by "Software University" / aka SoftUni / (Sofia, Bulgaria) which took place on 21-st of Jan, 2021. The content which I covered here is about some good practices for software developers, a time management technique, the root OOP principles, SOLID, Composition over Inheritance, Design Patterns and Software Architecture Patterns …

Visual Studio: Remove deleted branches on GIT fetch

Something small and easy but useful. I always google it when I setup a new Dev environment.If you are also working with Visual Studio and its built in GIT integration, then you have noticed that the remote branches shown under the Branches tree in the Team Explorer, are only increasing. Even some of the branches …