I've been getting stuck into upskilling in Kotlin. Mostly for TeamCity build automation and trying to produce quality tested code in a space where automation was retrofitted in. Today's fun little problem was the error message: Runtime error RootProjectId: kotlin.reflect.jvm.internal.impl.builtins.KotlinBuiltIns$3[92]: java.lang.…
It all started when I installed Windows Update 20H2 in October 2020. I've had a stable machine (HP ZBook laptop for reference) for months and months with the same Bluetooth hardware, no issues. But that fateful day I installed the 20H2 update from Microsoft, everything changed. Suddenly I was having…
The C# 8 feature Nullable has been well received by myself and others into our workflows and has improved code bases immensely. However, there is one niggly workaround that I'm not a fan of, and that is = default!; problem definition // This class is used to serialise/deserialise a payload from…
If your reading this blog, and used twitter in the past few days, you have probably already seen this tweet, or some of the replies coming through from the community: 10x engineersFounders if you ever come across this rare breed of engineers, grab them. If you have a 10x engineer…
An impromptu introduction to Snuffleupagus-Oriented Programming (SOP): https://t.co/jPkjPRgqQr— Casey Muratori (@cmuratori) July 21, 2015 Sometimes naming something is the best way to start talking about a topic that lots of people do but don't realise or haven't pulled together as a concept. This is one of…
With C# 8 on our doorstep, I figure it is a good time to reflect on recent additions to the language that have come before. There are some great improvements you may have missed, some that I really enjoy using, and some I consider have reached canonical usage status that…
With C# 8 on our doorstep, I figure it is a good time to reflect on recent additions to the language that have come before. There are some great improvements you may have missed, some that I really enjoy using, and some I consider have reached canonical usage status that…
With C# 8 on our doorstep, I figure it is a good time to reflect on recent additions to the language that have come before. There are some great improvements you may have missed, some that I really enjoy using, and some I consider have reached canonical usage status that…