Thoughts on software engineering, technology, and building things.
Why agents drown in tool schemas, how tool search fixes it by deferring schemas and loading them on demand, the difference between generic and provider-specific search, and tricks to make it actually good.
Build a LangGraph docs agent that searches read-only documentation files with Bashkit shell tools instead of a vector database or embeddings.
MCP and CLIs made APIs usable for agents by adding metadata, workflows, discovery, and better errors. Maybe the next step is to move this logic back into web APIs and OpenAPI specs.
Sandboxed bash interpreter written in Rust. No fork/exec, no real filesystem, no subprocess surprises. Built for LLM agents, multi-tenant sandboxes, and CI.
Instead of helping agents bypass CAPTCHA, we should make agent identities official. Human sub-identities for agents, with proper permissions and clear separation.
AI coding agents are becoming gatekeepers of tool adoption. The data that shapes their recommendations is opaque, gameable, and already being exploited. Creators, consumers, labs, and governments all need to act.
Why Rust is becoming the go-to language for AI-generated code. Strong types, cargo conventions, LLM training data representation, and embeddability into Python and Node.js ecosystems make it a perfect fit.
A Coding Agent friendly tool to magically generate text and image artifacts like diagrams.
My experience of transitioning from human-first to AI-ready repositories packed to six practices that enable effective AI coding agents: feedback loops, entry points, specifications, progressive disclosure, skills, and testing documentation.
A review of AWS App Runner service capabilities and limitations at the end of 2021.
Setting up Azure Container Registry as a private Docker registry for your Kubernetes cluster.
Guide to setting up and running a Kubernetes cluster on Azure Container Service.
Building a serverless data pipeline with AWS Kinesis streams and Lambda functions.
Quick setup guide for running TensorFlow on any platform, including Windows.
Discussion about application configuration management strategies.
A review of web development tools and technologies used throughout 2011.
Updates on PsGet including new features, modules, and development challenges.
Automating git commits with messages extracted from JIRA tickets.
Setting up health monitoring for production systems.
Implementing automatic deployment pipelines using Mercurial and TeamCity.
Isolating business logic execution in separate .NET application domains.
Exploring potential pitfalls and issues with IEnumerable in .NET.
Announcing the central module directory for PsGet.
How to download files using PowerShell scripts.
Using PsRemoteFiles to transfer files via PowerShell Remoting.
Introduction to PsUrl for downloading web content and PsGet for PowerShell module management.
Yep! We are moving on. Welcome our first event.
Introducing innovative stuff in .NET.
Overview of the mocking in System.Reflection API. Some good changes in .NET 4.0
I think, now is good time to make small talk what F# is all about. Announce of the upcoming UNETA talk on subject.
Some subjective thoughts about potential storage dedicated for Event Sourcing.
Example Domain Events implementation with Reactive Extensions. Probably first example of the server side business logic with Rx.
Kind of yet another technique to organize business logic.
Cool stuff that comes with Reactive Framework API. Hope it really will be part of .NET 4.0
Yet another Unit Testing/BDD framework for F#. Inspired by RSpec syntax.
I love "guess error" kind of posts. This is first of mine. Snippet is all about GWT Java code.
First attempt to view on the Microsoft Master Data Services November 2009 CTP.
Small reviews of the PDC09 videos/sessions.
Funny, but Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 does not support e-mail accounts hosted on Windows Live Custom Domains. I found not less funny solution.
Inspired by Google Wave invitation, thoughts about suitability of the GWT for RIA.
Nice (at least I hope) solution that will end war between people who use generic repository and who do not.
You can share contracts of the WCF service? Here you can find a much more robust way to instantiate a client.
What is the difference between GetOrder(id) and FindOrder(id)?
Failed take to design non-blocking sequential number generation.
Bored with repetitive code? Need a real example of T4 (Text Templates)? Need tools to write .NET Configuration Sections? This post is all about this stuff.
What do you think about ASP.NET MVC as a platform for web service based applications? What about JSON Web Services? Possibly you would like that.
We dropped out Application Layer. And nothing changed. This post is all about overuse of the Application Layer.
Despite my last belief, that code will not fly into production. Why? Because I found the right way to do INNER JOIN in Entity Framework!
We are building regular enterprise application. Domain is boring. The only interesting thing is technologies. Today is a good time to share how we do Data Access.
Personally, guidance to dispose everything looks a bit overwhelmed. I show BinaryWriter as one example of "broken" IDisposable implementations.
The story about progressive enhancements to a single LINQ to Entities query. Some stuff to know when doing LINQ.
Following post is about generating readable data for your staging database with DbPro. You will find list of expressions for the Regular Expression Generator.
My journey with ADO.NET Data Services. This should be interesting for anyone who starts with ADO.NET Data Services.
From time to time it happens, some code becomes outdated. And I have some of such code. This post is all about such code/projects.
Compare how to read all lines of the text file with Ruby, Java and C#.
Introduction to the T4 (Text Templates), nothing interesting if you already have used T4.
Discussion about Java "virtual by default" behavior compared to C#.
What is Dependency Injection (DI), Dependency Inversion (also DI), Inversion of Control (IoC) and so on.
Funny thing, there are no templates for T4 (Text Templates) in Visual Studio 2008! Well, this is a fix.
I stole a book in 5 minutes. Today's realities.
I do not love Domain Services. And this post describes why!
To be honest, main intent of this entry is not to welcome you… This would be plain boring… Isn't it? Rather it for the testing purposes. Plus I am not sure that my blog can handle empty pages.