AI

AI Gives Us Answers. But We Don’t Remember Them.

We've never had faster access to answers. But I've started wondering whether we're actually learning less — and why the effort we skip might matter more than we think.

AI

The Fallacies of AI Coding

AI agents can write code, open PRs, and refactor entire systems. But many of the things people believe about AI-assisted coding are simply wrong — not maliciously, just optimistically. Here's what working with AI on real production systems actually looks like.

nodejs

Introducing: Metrics reporting done right

A battle tested NodeJS library for time-series metrics reporting

Automation

Installing a Developer workstation

Imagine this scenario: after a grueling interview process, off-boarding from the previous position and a bit of vacation, you're starting at a new company. Its super exciting! Getting

Software Engineering

3 Pitfalls in Golang I Wish I Had Known Earlier

During the last year we've been developing a complex semi-real-time system in production. We decided to write it with Golang. We had little to no experience in Go,

DEV

How to restrict pods to run on only on specific nodes in Kubernetes

Pods in Kubernetes run on cluster which is comprised from different nodes. A cluster may have many different deployments, replica-sets, jobs and different type of nodes running them. In many

Unit testing

Why I'm TDDing

14 years ago, when I started my professional career as a programmer, my team leader conducted a week long session where everyone in the team had to write tests for

DEV

4 Tips for a healthy codebase

As developers, our days (and nights) revolve around writing code, moving from one piece of code to the next. What makes a codebase easier and fun to work with? Ask

Abstracting dependencies to keep a flat dependency tree between components

Every piece of software has dependencies. No one likes to reinvent the wheel. So when you need a database access library or logging, using an existing one is a given.

Continuous Integration

How to run Visual Studio 2017 projects using Build Tools for Visual Studio

One of the biggest changes Microsoft did lately in the .Net eco-system is a new version of MSBuild. This version advocates smaller, light weight MSBuild files, that consolidate the entire

Tech

Tech challenges for developers

Recently one of our team leaders presented me with the following question: "What can I do to challenge my developers from a technical point of view, outside of the

Agile

Can't we all just get along?

I was reading this great post talking about UX vs UI [https://medium.com/@mikeatherton/ux-is-ui-105460807734] when an interesting thought came to mind. The post discusses the differences between UX

Patterns and Practices

How to implement a State Machine for your Embedded project

When you are working on an embedded device, you usually start simple. A main loop that does something. As you start to add more features, the complexity of the code

Web

Why CSS slows down your page

Latly, I've been working on improving our web site's mobile web experience, from a performance perspective. I started by inlining all the style definitions to be

Installations

How to setup a Ghost blog

After choosing a blog engine [https://blog.house-of-code.com/why-i-chose-ghost-as-my-new-blog-engine] and exported my content from my old blog [https://blog.house-of-code.com/how-i-exported-my-wordpress-posts-to-ghost], I started to think about how I'm going to take my blog to production (aka internet). I chose Digital

Web

How I exported my Wordpress posts to Ghost

Previously [https://blog.house-of-code.com/why-i-chose-ghost-as-my-new-blog-engine], i explained why I chose Ghost [http://ghost.org] as my new blog engine. The first task I had at hand, was to export all the content I previously wrote on my previous blog [http://blogs.microsoft.co.

Installations

Why I chose Ghost as my new blog engine

When I decided to go on the road with a new blog I had couple of options on the table. My requirements were: Simplicity and flexibility. Pretty quickly I found myself fascinated with Ghost [http://ghost.org]. Their stated goal is to create a

Gamification

Gamifying Your R&D

Continuous Integration [http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html] means a lot to me. It's like my second child. I found out the hard way that this sort of cultural thing is very hard to rely on and maintain inside an ever-growing company.

Agile

Through the Looking Glass: Google Glass as a Lean Startup case study

After a long time, I finally got my hands on Google Glass [http://www.google.com/glass/start/]. I got one to try out for a couple of days and I must say I am very impressed. I think they are a technological achievement.

DEV

How I Coded my Costume

A few weeks ago we had our annual costume party at the office. This year I had no idea what am I going to do… I thought about it a bit, tossed around some ideas, but I was blocked. Then a friend at work

Continuous deployment

Deploy & Deliver

Previously, we’ve discussed the vision of Continuous Deployment [https://blog.house-of-code.com/the-vision-of-continuous-deployment]. When people start implementing Continuous Deployment, I’ve noticed that they confuse it with Continuous Delivery. Both concepts are used a lot, and have several ways to define them (take

Continuous deployment

The Vision

I have a dream… In my dream each commit a developer does, is automatically tested and deployed to production without any manual intervention, without affecting the users of our app. Each commit is tested in the CI before it is deployed. Once the CI

Debug

Inspecting request from an IIS server

Let’s say we have a web application which makes calls to other services via http. We want to inspect the calls for bug hunting. If the calls where made from the browser on the client side then it is simple – use fiddler [http:

OFFTOPIC

My new ideal workplace

In my last post [https://blog.house-of-code.com/moving-on] (which was way too long ago), I wrote what is my ideal workplace. After a while I found it! After a series of interviews I was hired by Sears Israel [http://www.sears.co.il]

Debug

Transaction trouble with Cache

Consider the following problem: We have a web app which can send messages between the users that are connected to it. A user can send a message to any number of users. The implementation is simple: When a user sends a message The message