From time to time I have to explain design patterns to junior developers. There are many excellent books and web sites on this topic that I recommend. However, it turns out that often the developers cannot relate a particular design pattern to a real world scenarios. In such cases I try to give an example implementation …
Author Archives: mslavchev
Ramblings on code refactoring
As a Telerik employee I use Visual Studio and JustCode (JustCode is a Visual Studio productivity tool which provides code analysis, navigation, refactoring and other goodies). I often refactor my code with the help of JustCode. However over the years I had become more careful and in a way more reluctant to code refactoring. I …
Garbage collection – part 1 of N
Recently I deal a lot with memory problems like leaks, stack/heap corruption, heap fragmentation, buffer overflow and the like. Surprisingly these things happen in the .NET world, especially when one deals with COM/PInvoke interoperability. The CLR comes with a garbage collector (GC) which is a great thing. The GC has been around for many years …
Introduction
Hi. My name is Mihail Slavchev, welcome to my blog! Twelve years ago I was a rookie software engineer. I started my journey as a C++ developer, then did Java for a while and finally I landed into .NET world. Today, I think I am still a rookie, exploring new and amazing territories. Feel free …