Alberto on code life

After some back and forth with learning and reading all I needed for the project I finally dipped my hands into installing things and creating my project. This was a wild ride because I asked  A.I to create a python project for me. The wild ride begins! Photo created with Google Imagen The amazing triviality So I asked the LLM to create a Python project and use the UV package manager. UV was not installed and I had to install it. Unlike Cursor which would have installed it for me CoPilot did not, just gave me the command and I applied it myself. And then the picture below happened. Screenshot from my own machine The project was created and it even "read my thoughts" and what I meant with RAG and added the relevant description. At this point my mind is blown. Obviously previous context was responsible for the description and yet it was pretty amazing. The rest of the project was completed mostly with completions because I had to practice my Python skills. However even for that...

If you are a developer you are (probably and hopefully) familiar or have tried to apply Vibe Coding in your day to day workflow. If you haven't I suggest you give it a shot. It is not a solution for everything but is is one more tool in your belt. Apart from the coding itself though what else can we do inside our IDE that we didn't even think of doing before? This is the first of a series of short posts on my experience in Vibe Composing  rather than Vibe Coding. Consider the following premise; You are given a requirements document from your product manager. The document will probably be a few pages (tens) long. You don't really have time to read all this. You may even ask some A.I chat to summarize it. However, what if you could load the document in your A.I assisted IDE and ask your friendly chat agent to operate based on that document? Fantasy? Reality! Photo by A.I Enter personal project While at a crossroads on my career I had some free time to think about what is the...

Have you experienced the frustration of tests running perfectly well on your local machine and then failing in CI? This all too familiar "It worked on my machine" comes to mind. You set off to investigate and after a while you realize you are too far into the rabbit hole between code and logs in Kibana and this investigation is getting you nowhere. Wouldn't it be nice if you could hijack the logger and print the logs in the test runner's console? TL;DR NLog can be extended easily and NUnit  Console Runner does not play well with simple console logs.   Photo by  Kaboompics .com  from  Pexels Enter Console logging In .Net in general it is not advisable to log to console in a multi-threaded environment, because the console is not thread safe. While logging simple strings may not cause any problems logging strings with interpolated variables may very well be sub optimal to say the least. Should you use any such debugging technique you are better off with a thread ...

Let's see how we can help upgrade and stabilize the school's computers in the classes and labs he said .  But as I wrote before the Local Council's finances are in dire straights.   TL;DR The end may be happy. but the journey was glorious. ZorinOS Logo  Copyright © 2014 - 2020 Zorin Technology Group Ltd. All Rights Reserved. The state of computers in classes and labs Hardware ranging from the last generation of dual core Pentiums to 4th generation i7s with a sprinkle of, surprisingly fast but with very low memory and cache, dual core 64bit AMDs. Packed with dust, ridden with useless software and desktops full of documents over Windows 7 and some Windows 10 build 1803 or less. The list of complaints on slow or stuck PCs is getting longer by the day. The phrase "It does not work" appears in every other row on a spreadsheet. It is the end of June 2019, School year starts September 1st, the teachers do not know what they need on the PCs but they need it...

The purpose for a PC in a school is to be a teaching tool and not a hurdle. This is a retrospective of the most interesting volunteer work I have ever done (and still do). I live in a small town (~9000 residents), governed by a Local Council. As it happens the Local Council's finances are in dire straits (which I will not go into at all) and at the 3 schools within its jurisdiction (in two of them my children study), 2 primary schools and one middle school, the PCs in the classes have fallen to disarray. TL;DR No such thing this time. Read on How it all begun Somewhere around June 2019 one of the council members mentioned that he is trying to devise a plan to upgrade the school's computers and network infrastructures. Long story short I found myself willingly involved in that project spearheading change on the field while said council member spearheads change in administrative levels on the education board. I will spare you the long night hours upgrading OSs, the mistak...

In Part 1 we saw a first approach to NDepend starting off with analyzing a project of 2 assemblies and focusing on the smaller assembly. In this part we will focus on the main executable and the gems NDepend discovered in it TL; DR Memory leak detected... Photo by  Daan Mooij  on  Unsplash Enter 3 years old WPF project - Main executable Going back to the dashboard I see the "usual" long types or methods errors, some immutability warnings, which I would have set as errors and 400 violations of "Avoid namespaces mutually dependent" some with debt time of 4 days. "Oh come on.. what 4 days. How hard can it be..." Drilling down into the code (a wpf application) I realize that there is a single class that is injected in the constructor of every view model and I hardly see any services in the system save for calls to the DAL assembly. Without drilling down into the class I changed it's namespace and made the necessary, albeit sisyphic, chan...

A while ago I was asked by one of NDepend's founders to evaluate any .NET code base I wanted with NDepend and write a blog post about it. It turns out I came up with a two-part post. TL; DR Oh boy.... Photo by geralt on Picabay Enter 3 years old WPF project Without revealing the nature of the specific project I would just say it is a feature rich client, with UI elements customized to the customer's needs. It is written using MVVM, some third party grids and communicates with an SQL Server database via a classic  DAL class library. All and all the project is comprised of one executable and one DAL assembly. So off I went and added the necessary assemblies to a new NDepend project and let the analysis run. Given the size of the project it was pretty swift and started off with a a dashboard (or at least this is the view I chose to start from). NDepend desktop Dashboard At the same time a very nifty HTML based dashboard popped up in my browser NDepend HT...