Implicit Conversion and SQL Server Today, I spent most of my worktime analyzing a bug, where for a larger than normal number of input rows an SQL query would take longer than 30 seconds (default timeout duration) and the request would fail. After understanding the data flow and validating that the data itself shouldn’t cause […]
Category: Development
TIL: Ninja & MSYS2 Clang
Ninja Continuing my quest of compiling SFML with all the flavors of Clang on Windows, I tried out the build system Ninja for the first time. It’s well-known, has its own CMake generator for a very long time and compared to a normal Visual Studio build it’s quite fast. There honestly isn’t too much to […]
TIL: CPM, Clang & iOS on Windows
In this Today I Learned (TIL) format, I want to very briefly share things I’ve come across and learned from today. CMake Package Manager Someone on the SFML Discord was trying to get SFML to play nice with their CMake script which uses CMake Package Manager (CPM). CPM is not a built-in functionality or officially […]
Missing PowerShell System Modules
This is a very short article in hopes, that it gets picked up by search engine and helps someone else or my future self. After the holidays I was making sure everything was up-to-date before start any work, but of course, things are never that easy and I ran into the following error, while updating […]
Record with OBS Studio
On my current project at work, we sometimes need to record a meeting, unfortunately the recording feature of the meeting software isn’t enable. As such I’ve written a short guide on how to use OBS Studio and thought, I’d share it on here as well. Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio was, as the name implies, […]
You Are Not Wasting Time
On the SFML Discord and forum, I get to mentor and support a lot of new beginners, often with some of their first steps in programming. It’s not uncommon that they feel like wasting their time, because they can’t figure something out and spend hours or days on it. I think every programmer, myself included, […]
How Not To Rebrand – Toggl
On the 9th of September Toggl, my then time tracking app of choice, rebranded the company structure and … the design. On that morning, I noticed that the icon of the Toggl Chrome extension suddenly had a pink background. My through was, that someone had mixed up some image formats and the pink color was […]
Article on Error Handling
Yesterday, I came across this interesting article Handling errors is canceling operations. While it’s mostly focused on C++, I found most of it being generic enough, that it also fits with other languages. The most interesting section to me, was the following paragraph: Exception handling is not a tool for broadcasting information about any failure in […]
Your Windows is a Hypervisor
For the longest time I’ve either picked VirtualBox or less often VMware whenever I needed a virtual machine. Only a few months ago I learned at work that Windows 10 comes with its own Hypervisor called Hyper-V. Usually you have to enable Hyper-V, but then it’s really easy to use. As a bonus note, if […]
Fetch GitHub Pull Requests Locally
It’s by no means a secret thing and Google will be the first to tell you, but by the off chance that someone hasn’t thought about it, here’s just the command how to do it. git fetch origin pull/<id>/head:<branch> <id> refers to the pull request id on GitHub<branch> refers to a custom branch name of […]