Coding with Titans

so breaking things happens constantly, but never on purpose

DataGrip connect to MS SQL

Recently I had some problems connecting with DataGrip to my Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance provided as part of purchased web hosting plan. By some reason my connection was always rejected with following error message: The driver could not establish a secure connection to SQL Server by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. Error: “sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target”. Microsoft’s documentation (available here) turned out to be very helpful. Read more →

Laptop for a developer (2017)

It’s been quite a while since I upgraded my machine for daily development. Till four months ago I was still using my 2011’ MacBook Pro with some additional upgrades done down the line (described them here and here). Nevertheless it was more often seen it became older and older and somehow the speed and work comfort was insufficient anymore. Once decision was made, for the first time in my life I wanted to buy my next laptop wisely. Read more →

Quoted boundary is sometimes not acceptable

In my recent post I have shown, how to track web requests issued against remote server I don’t have a control over. Curious reader could ask at this point – but what have I broken this time? And the answer is as usual – personally did nothing wrong, I was just doing my job. I had to port some HTTP related code from using Windows Runtime-specific HttpClient (i.e. Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient) to also work outside the sandbox on a regular . Read more →

Dolby Wrocław is hiring! OMG! Really? Keep scrolling…

I am a freelancer more than 5 years now. After so much time I started having this (really stupid as turned out) idea of abandoning that state of mind. Maybe I could hire myself for a big company, wear the uniform and work only limited part of the day (instead of whole time) and generally rest for some period. So as I usually never reply to headhunter offers, I did a try. Read more →