I know what a lot of you are already thinking, so let’s get this out of the way: “JAXB? As in XML? Come on, all the cool kids are using JSON.” The “XML vs. JSON” debate and the many arguments that contribute to it are pretty well documented; I won’t spend a lot of time […]

If you’ve been programming in Java and using any one of the popular frameworks like Spring and Hibernate, you should be very familiar with using annotations. When working with an existing framework, its annotations typically suffice. But, have you ever found a need to create your own annotatio

I want to discuss some takeaways from my role as a Quality Assurance (QA) Software Developer. My experiences in QA were two-fold: I started as a Software Engineer responsible for QA on a Scrum team and I later had a role as a QA Engineer responsible for implementing automated testing infrastructure.

“Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.”~ Bikram Choudhury When i introduce myself i say “I am a software developer and work on game development too”.The reaction will be “Is it? I am also a developer.How and where should i st

Code smells offer us a convenient way to identify, classify and address bad code. The phrase was first coined by Kent Beck, while helping Martin Fowler with his famous book, Refactoring. A code smell is an indication of bad code. It is something that is easy to spot quickly, and which probably tells

Making it intentionalRecently we started a mentoring programme - nothing rigid or too formal, but intentional. In essence each person in the company has picked someone else in the company as a formal mentor and they have committed to meet at regular intervals. Formal developer mentoring is new to u

This blog posts teaches you how to transpose the rows and columns of a two-dimensional array, jagged array and string in C#.

Although there is often some debate regarding its pronunciation, I believe that most of us can agree that NuGet is pretty great. In the past few years, NuGet has become one of the easily and most commonly used tools within a .NET Developers bag of tricks and rightfully so. Long gone are the days of

I am not aware of a software design pattern that has been vilified more than The Singleton. Just as every other design pattern, the singleton has its merits. Given the right situation, it provides a simple a clean solution, and just as every other design pattern, it can be misused. I ha

CodeProject In the past 10 months, we were discussing about ASP.Net MVC, Entity Framework, jQuery, LINQ and many more stuffs. Today, we are going to start with ASP.Net Web Services. What are web services and why should we use them? Web services are a standardized way for developing interoperable app