Apr 20, 2013

A few weeks ago I’ve decided to change my keyboard. For the last two or three years I’ve been using Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600, which is nice, low profile keyboard. During my research for the new keyboard I’ve found many articles about mechanical keyboards and how good they are in the comparison to “traditional rubber domes” ones. This convinced me to buy one. Still there was a question about exact model. So again I’ve spent some time reading materials about key switches and their purpose (I can recommend this thread - it contains lots of useful information). The final decision was to buy keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches.

Apr 17, 2013

I’ve decided to move, my not very often updated blog, to the new platform. I’ve made a choice to use Octopress blog engine. Octopress uses Jekyll, a static site generator in ruby, that basically takes bunch of templates files and produce a set of html pages. I could use Jekyll, but Octopress extends it with additional files, themes and plugins, so you can create your blog very fast with small effort.

Aug 19, 2011

Recently I’ve been working on the WPF application that extensively uses Caliburn.Micro framework for MVVM pattern. MVVM usually force you to write many properties in the ViewModel. Those properties should typically notify View about their values changes – to do that every ViewModel has to implement INotifyPropertyChanged interface and in the setters of the properties we need to rise NotifyPropertyChanged event, for example like that:

Mar 30, 2011

I decided that in the next few weeks I will write series of short blog posts with code snippets that I use during my everyday work.

Nov 4, 2010

Sometimes I write a class that has many similar methods. All those methods start from initialization block, then there is a processing part and at the end there is finalizing segment. In other words those methods are only different in processing code – rest is the same.