Priority Queue is a data structure in computer science that is used to manage a collection of prioritized elements. It allows adding, removing and peeking (reading) elements in the order of their priority. The priority queue is used in many applications such as job scheduling, network routing, data compression, and…
Sorting collections is a common task in programming, and .NET provides a variety of tools to do so efficiently. One such tool is the SortedSet class, which represents a collection of unique elements sorted in ascending or descending order. By default, SortedSet uses the default comparer for its type, but…
Home security cameras have become increasingly popular in recent years, with many homeowners opting to install cameras to keep their homes and families safe. One of the benefits of these cameras is that they can capture footage of potential intruders or other suspicious activity around the home. In this blog…
Standing out of the pack starts by being visible, and being noticed by the right group of professionals. No matter how good your profile is, it is lost in a sea of similar profiles, so you need to show up and start attracting visits to your profile page. Suppose we…
Scraping content from websites can be a useful tool for gathering information or automating certain tasks. In C#, there are several libraries available that can help make this process easier. In this blog post, we will cover how to use the HtmlAgilityPack library to scrape content from websites in C#.…
Scraping dynamic content from websites has become an important task in data collection and analysis. With the advancements in web technologies, websites are now using dynamic content that cannot be easily scraped with traditional web scraping techniques. In this blog post, we will explore how to scrape dynamic content from…
Two good news: file I/O is unit-testable, and it is surprisingly easy to do. Let’s see how it works! A software no-one asked for First, we need a piece of software that deals with files and that has to be unit-tested. The TestableIO project does the following: given a directory,…
If you encounter the following error when pulling a repository in SourceTree: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487 it is due to to the Cygwin system failing to allocate a 5 MB large chunk of memory for its heap at the fixed address 0x68570000, while only a hole 2.5…
As the yearly dynamic range day is close (March 31st), let’s have a look at one of the biggest audio massacres of the year, Ed Sheeran’s “Castle on the hill”. First time I heard the song, I thought my headphones just got broken, it’s really that bad. So let’s measure…
Some might say that testing private methods should be avoided because it means not testing the contract, that is the interface implemented by the class, but the internal implementation of the class itself. Still, not all classes were designed with testability in mind, so real life compromises sometimes demand such…