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Unfortunately in Europe and especially in Poland there is problem with getting mechanical keyboard, not saying about the possibility of choosing the type of keys switches. You can buy some keyboards with [Cherry MX Redswitches] [3]...

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...

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...

Very often I have to check if a string contains specific sequence of characters, to do it I write something like this: and after few seconds I realize that it won’t work correctly because Contains method is **case-sensitive**. To solve...

When I see that kind of class I immediately start thinking about using *template method patter*. You can read about this pattern here . The general idea is that you have an abstract class that creates template method for concrete classes...