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I survived! The ‘GetNoticed’ competition is over!

This is the 20th and the last post in the GetNoticed! competition. So it means that… I DID IT! I survived till the very end, I managed to create 20 posts in 10 weeks. ReMaster is still alive (it could be fed better but let’s leave this subject :P). It’s time to celebrate, I mean, have some sleep ?.

What I’m proud of?

I have a blog! One year ago I was sure that my programming life is boring and even the problems I encounter while coding are too boring to write about them. And I believed that there is everything already written so what’s the point in writing the 100th ASP.Net tutorial?
Now I don’t know which subject from my long TODO list should I choose first!
I also fear less about pushing my code to github PR. I know that my style of coding is far from perfection ? and my code tends to be messy ? so that’s a huge step! I think I can even say that breaking this barrier in my head is the greatest outcome of the competition!

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What’s up, ReMaster?

A few days ago the Polish companies data provider published a new version of its API. I found out about it accidentally and decided to spend a moment to upgrade API used in ReMaster. Hopefully, from my perspective, it doesn’t change anything crucial so I will not have to change any logic concerning companies import (and that’s a real blessing considering the fact that testing imports lasts ages and I hate waiting for a result). Continue Reading

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How I fell in love with Elasticsearch and hated Java even more than before

This week I spent some time with ElasticSearch. I thought it would be nice to get a little know-how in case a companies table in my pet project’s database grows up so much that searching for a data will last forever. Well, considering the fact that one of the two most important features in my project is searching, I can’t believe I didn’t think about it earlier!

A few possibilities

There is a few search engines I could use. I was considering a Lucene (but it’s so old… I remember using it about 6 years ago!), Solr (I heard it’s the fastest one) and ElasticSearch (some says it’s aimed for bigger projects). So I decided on ElasticSearch… my project is gonna be huge, right? 😛 Continue Reading

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Staying at home programmer – survival guide!

If you have read (hehe, I know you didn’t :P) the very first post on my blog, you would know that I had about one year break in my, let’s say, ‘career’. For my personality it was quite a challenging and surprising time, but for me as a programmer, it was an extremely tough year. I literally had to fight for each hour spent on writing code so I decided to write down some tips that helped my knowledge and skills (somehow) survive.

And if you think that it doesn’t concern you, just think of a situation when you break an arm or lose your job and couldn’t find another one for longer than 5 minutes (haha, hehe, yeah, that joke is stupid, but I had to write it 😉 ) or decide to stay at home with your newborn. I was in the last situation. Continue Reading

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Software Talks conference review

Living in the eastern part of Poland means you don’t have a lot of IT events you can attend to. The situation is getting better each year but I am still a little bit jealous of the possibilities my friends in other cities have. But it doesn’t mean ‘our’ conferences and meetups are weak or boring – not at all! It only means that they are less often than I would like!

The one conference I attended last Thursday was Software Talks organized at Rzeszow University of Technology by PGS Software . With the main subject ‘Get back the control‘ it looked very promising. If I add, that one of the two prelectors was  Piotr Konieczny I think everybody will know why I was so anticipating this event. Who knows the Polish language and is interested in the security subjects probably knows Piotr and his blog niebezpiecznik.pl and for sure would share my excitement! Continue Reading

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Victories and defeats of the last week

Recently I have quite tough time coding. Anything I touched, throws exception with messages that even google wasn’t eager to answer. Since I started developing my pet project ReMaster, it became a rule. I don’t know if it’s because of my rather small knowledge of the .net core or just the fact that I work on the ReMaster usually late in the night and I’m half asleep by the time. But never mind and let’s focus on my last problems and solutions.

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