I’ve been recently working on a gateway service hosted in Azure that is primarily a TCP server. One of the key requirements of the project is that it allows clients running a desktop-based windows service to initiate a handshake over TCP when their respective service is started, and then keeps…

As the amount of people entering the tech industry grows, so does the competition. A heightened atmosphere of competition brings with it a growing sense of insecurity for developers, and guess who doesn’t like to show they don’t know something that others do; Insecure people. ‘Imposter Syndrome’ is the feeling that you do not belong in a particular environment and that one day, you are going to be exposed for the fraud that you are before being ejected from your profession with your reputation in tatters.

We all know that Windows Forms is old. Like really old. (Especially so in software terms). Windows Forms shipped with the version 1.0 of the .NET framework back on 13th February 2002, long before I had committed myself to a life of coding. Windows Forms may have already been a…

Micro-RPA which isn’t sexy but solves problems. Automating the flow of data in an organization is anything but accessible. This is especially the case when collaborating with people or adding new processes. There are too many variables (both logical and in code) to consider. Most of the time when a…

Last year, I reached the point during the development of ‘Protectorate’ in which I needed to implement some basic AI. As a Software Engineer, I work mostly in automation. Automation brings with it a certain need for intelligence, even if it is very basic. These days, the hot AI topics…