Technical debt

Refactoring: strong vs weak

The perils of whiteboards

The state of affairs in computer-aided software design

On the Tired Light Hypothesis

Code review memes

Immutability Assessment

Human-readable names of dotnet types in C# notation

Build configurations

Theory vs- Practice

Beginning A-I- prompts with "Please--"

The confusion about the term Unit Testing

On Moore's Law

The best code review comment ever

Testana: A better way of running tests

The 'gay gene' paradox

"Lifeboat of the week" from Stack Overflow!

«Είμαι του Γρηγόρη.»

The Ju52 cocktail

On preferred pronouns

How to organize a Visual Studio Solution

Incident Impact Calculation Formula

Simplification of triple-choice prompts to dual-choice

Buienalarm vs- Buienradar

Continuous Code Quality Improvement

Artificial Code Coverage

On the evolutionary origin of reasoning

The most important quality of software

Audit Testing

Types of dependencies

Call Graph Acyclicity

Towards Authoritative Software Design

Converting MSBuild project files from legacy-style to SDK-style

On Dotfuscator by PreEmptive Solutions

My pre-covid look

Migrating a project from DotNet Framework 4-7-2 to DotNet 7

[SOLVED] Maven deploy fails with status 422 unprocessable entity

The Trouble with XAML Hot Reload in WPF

Program Code is Uncountable

Hyrum's Law

Notable severely down-voted answers of mine on Stack Exchange

Trees of Eternity

[SOLVED] Windows: Sound becomes distorted after 1 second of playback

A few good reads from Simplethread

New GitHub project: VsDebugLogger

On Recruiters

Debating with other Software Engineers

Definition: Collaborator

If you are using mock objects you are doing it wrong

Collaboration Monitoring

Testing with Fakes instead of Mocks

On messages and message-passing

On Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Intertwine

Jargon

Jeff Atwood: Building Social Software for the Antisocial

IntelliJ IDEA can now exclude methods from code coverage

Setting up Windows

How to ALWAYS show all icons on the Windows 11 taskbar

About these papers

50 things expected of developers

On Microsoft "Visual" products

On Visual Programming Languages

On UML (oh, do not get me started)

So the "master" branch is not kosher anymore

Why the majority is always wrong | Paul Rulkens | TEDxMaastricht

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

Bathyscaphe

Fixing broken module names in IntellijIdea

Mouse Wheel Natural Scrolling in Windows

Getting AntiVirus software to trust a Windows Application

Common mistakes Dutchies make in the use of English

Incremental Integration Testing

On International Company Culture in The Netherlands

Windows: how to connect/disconnect wi-fi from command-line

Dear recruiter-

So, what is a Microservice, anyway?

The Stateful Microservice

On Stateless Microservices

What is wrong with Scala

What is wrong with C#

What is wrong with Java

What is wrong with C++

White-Box vs- Black-Box Testing

[SOLVED] In Windows, how to recover an invisible application window

A Programming Language

Malicious Inaction

Digital Audio Waveform Generation

SVG in WPF

Java with Maven: Giving CI/CD a try

The MVVM architectural design pattern

Object Lifetime Awareness

The famous "Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies" error message

Coherence: The Assertable Lock

Ferroli HR OptiFor OT-V Ventilation Unit User's Manual in English

The Wild, Wild Web

Domain Oriented Programming

On Validation vs- Error Checking

Stackoverflow is not suitable for poignant questions

The case for software testing

Red Heart Stickers

Bypassing the blocks to The Pirate Bay

Samba (SMB) on Ubuntu

Clipboard Managers for Ubuntu as of April 2019

Medium-com: Psychology of Code Readability by Egon Elbre

Ferroli BlueSense Boiler User's Manual in English

Researching mp3 cover art downloaders

Rooting my Android Phone

Solved: Windows Explorer shows generic thumbnails instead of embedded album art for music (mp3) files

Confucius on naming

GitHub project: mikenakis-rumination

On JUnit's random order of test method execution

GitHub project: mikenakis-classdump

GitHub project: mikenakis-bytecode

My Very Own™ Coding Style

GitHub project: mikenakis-agentclaire

Open Source but No License

What is wrong with Full Stack Development

Douglas Crockford talking nonsense

On Code Craftsmanship

Tablecloth

Simplicity

Disabling the Group Policy Client Service in Windows

My notes on "Greg Young - The Long Sad History of Microservices"

Migrating a project from java 8 to java 9

A Hacker's Tale

Rich Hickey - Simple Made Easy

6 videos from TechSummit Amsterdam 2017 (Jun 1st)

What is wrong with UUIDs and GUIDs

My notes on the Fielding Dissertation (REST)

Roy T. Fielding: Understanding the REST Style

On scripting languages

Devoxx 2016 Belgium - Microservices Evolution: How to break your monolithic database by Edson Yanaga

Devoxx US 2017, Knowledge is Power: Getting out of trouble by understanding Git by Steve Smith

GOTO 2016 - Microservices at Netflix Scale: Principles, Tradeoffs & Lessons Learned - R- Meshenberg

GOTO 2015 - Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software - Mary Shaw

GOTO 2015 - DDD & Microservices: At Last, Some Boundaries! - Eric Evans

GOTO 2014 - REST: I don't Think it Means What You Think it Does - Stefan Tilkov

GΟΤΟ 2014 - Microservices - Martin Fowler

"Andy" android emulator - Avoid it like the plague

Solved: "something went wrong" trying to create new user account on Windows 10

Solved: Brightness control keys do not work on Asus Laptop

New Mobile Phone

Rooting my Samsung Galaxy S2 mobile phone

The Mother of All Bugs

Computer telephony in C++ with MFC

Crossword Puzzle Compiler

Is my mentor's concern for code quality excessive?

Why Oracle Sucks

Woohoo! One more of my "Programmers SE" answers has received a score of -5 !

How to: Completely disable "Aero" in Windows 7

How to: Enable the Administrator account in Windows

How to: Disable the administrative shares in Windows

Solved: Windows: WiFi connect immediately after boot and before logon

Solved: cannot eject USB device: "This device is currently in use-"

Solved: The network folder specified is currently mapped using a different user name and password

The GWX (Get Windows 10) KB3035583 trojan horse

Remote Desktop Connection quits without a word

Intel NUC5CPYH incompatible with Windows 7 Ulitmate 64 bit?

On dogma in engineering

Wow, 5 upvotes, 10 downvotes and counting

Mandatory disposal vs- the "Dispose-disposing" abomination

Solid State For The Win!

Minimal MySQL Memory Footprint

A stackoverflow question that received no love

Movie: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

The transaction pattern and the feature badly missing from exceptions

Bug reporting: a checklist

IntelliJ IDEA feature request: editor actions for moving the caret left & right with Column Selection

Why the 'final' (Java) or 'readonly' (C#) keyword is a bad idea

Assertions and Testing

On Electronic Cigarettes

Benchmarking Java 8 lambdas

Benchmarking code written in Java or C# (or any GCed, JITted, VM-based language)

What do you need a debugger for?

Pronouncing the name of your web server

Picture of Earth from Orbit in Cosmos S01E07

"By using this site, you agree to the use of cookies"

Stackoverflow-com question deleted within 2 minutes

Solved: svchost-exe high CPU and memory

A monstrous Visual Studio 2010 intellisense bug

Vintage stuff from my days of 320x200-pixel 256-color VGA

A few samples of my work on Darkfall Online

Vintage: my work on FESPA for Windows (Visual C++ and MFC)

Screen Capture (Screenshot) under Android 4

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (up until update 2) is lame!

tattoodavie's woes

My notes on "Spring in Action" (Manning)

My notes on "Clean Code" by Robert C- Martin

C# Blooper №14: Weird / annoying interface method visibility rules

C# Blooper №13: Stack<T> and Queue<T> do not implement ICollection<T>

C# Blooper №12: 'Where' constraints not included in method signatures

C# Blooper №11: Zero to Enum conversion weirdness

C# Blooper №9: Annoying case statement fall-through rules

C# Blooper №10: Switch statements are not properly formatted

C# Blooper №8: No warnings for conditions that are always true/false

Why the Microsoft C# compiler lacks many useful warnings

C# Blooper №7: No warnings about unused private methods

How to get a raise

C# Blooper №4: Lame/annoying variable scoping rules, Part 1

C# Blooper №6: No warnings about unused parameters

C# Blooper №5: Lame/annoying variable scoping rules, Part 2

How to copy multiple contacts from Outlook to Lync

Scanning printed photos

Canon Pixma MX700 printer dead and resurrected (Not!)

Solved: Local resources unavailable on remote desktop

Net code running faster under the profiler?

The "Handoff" Pattern

C# Blooper №3: No warnings about fields having already been initialized

C# Blooper №2: No warnings about accessing uninitialized members

C# Bloopers

Hail-Mary Local Variable Initialization

C# Blooper №1: No warnings about uninitialized readonly members

Intertwine: Normalizing Interface Invocations

Preventing a file from being committed to SVN if it contains a certain keyword

Gerasko Aei Didaskomenos

Wonderful MSBuild

Fixing the AutoCloseable interface of Java

The exploding hatch in the movie Sunshine (2007)

General web site maintenance, plus a recent picture of me

Vintage Demos

Darkfall video released

My way of making coffee

Enfocus Software Sucks

Short Stories

New Darkfall Online web site released today

'Miserable failure' links to Bush

I got a new job!

My international (non-Greek) music collection

My Greek music collection

On Smoking

Had to remove some stuff to meet my web host's quota

My Resume now available in English and in Greek

At last, my new computer is functional

Pictures: 11 - Summer vacation 2001 part 5: Zakynthos

Pictures: 10 - Summer vacation 2001 part 4: Kefalonia

Pictures: 09 - Summer vacation, August 2001, part 2: Lefkada

Pictures: 07 - More of Milos

Pictures: 06 - Easter vacation, April of 2001, Milos

Pictures: 05 - Back in Greece 1996-1999

Pictures: 04 - Shortly before I left the USA in 1995

Pictures: 03 - Silverlakes, California circa 1994

Pictures: 02 - Trip to San Francisco, thanksgiving of 1991 or 1992

Pictures: 01 - Early

Pictures

The Nostradamus hoax

The WTC Disaster