Miha Jakovac Coding and Development
Occasionally you get an error or find an issue in your code, which you can not comprehend. It can be difficult to solve, or it is something really silly. In any case that is when we put our detective hats on and start the investigation. Lately, we were upgrading our customer’s Web API to a…
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I am used to working from home or remotely and using tools to make my work more productive and easier. We are using communication tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, collaboration, planning and shipping tools like Azure DevOps, tools for remote programming like Visual Studio 2019 Live Share, etc. Yesterday we had an online meetup…
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Recently I went deep with the load testing with the special tool called Bombardier! It’s a command-line tool for running HTTP load tests and boy it’s a nice tool. First some basics. If you check Wikipedia you can find this definition: “Load testing generally refers to the practice of modeling the expected usage of a…
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Developing, testing and upgrading your Web APIs can be a challenge. Luckily for us, there are many tools we can use to make our development more productive, our deployments safer and feeling better as custodians of our apps. In this short post I would like to introduce you to the testing with Postman. Postman is…
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From RFC 7519 page, JWT token is a compact, URL-safe mean of representing claims between two parties. It’s an encoded JSON object which is passed with the HTTP request to the protected HTTP API. If you are developing a modern cloud services, you are probably using some sort of OAuth2 authentication flow to authorize users…
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Do you know how to learn more effectively? Do you use highlighter or re-reading material to learn new stuff? If you do, well, there is some good evidence you need to change that if you want to learn more effectively. Bottom line is: Learning should be effortful and productive activity! It’s hard, but in a…
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Have you ever wanted to run scheduled tasks within a running Windows Service? I do from time to time, and the discovery of this library made a life a lot easier. I’ve come across Quartz.NET, which gives you a rich job scheduling system. Quartz.NET is a pure .NET library written in C# and is a…
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Lately I’ve been busy with setting up a fleet of Samsung mobile phones for a customer that run custom mobile application, let’s call it Tripko. The partner company who supplied the phones also provided us with a license for Samsung Knox Manage, which is a “Mobile device Management” a.k.a. MDM solution. We hit a few…
read more Sequence diagram is a very useful tool for representing a sequence of interactions between objects, modules or processes. I am using it mostly to represent HTTP interactions between REST APIs or Web Services. It’s very easy to understand within your team and with your stakeholders. There are many good books about Unified modeling language UML,…
read more A while ago we developed a solution for our customer, where PDF documents were automatically processed and imported to a document system. The core of the process is to analyze every page of the document, read codes (bar codes, qr codes) and merge pages together to create a final document, which is then imported to…
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