As one gets more experience as a developer the moments when new information can totally change understanding of basic things get rarer. Last month I was in an argument with three coworkers of mine and I was stomped so hard that I was forced to rethink and change the way I do something very basic namely the way I model many to many relationships...

   I would like to get some feedback on a programming task I use to teach object-oriented design in an intro to programming course with C#. I happen to like this task a lot but since I designed it myself I am not sure I see its flaws. In addition I sometimes get to interview developers for junior positions and I am planning to use this task as an interview question and therefore it is essential that I get more people to look at it...

   On 14th and 15th of May Microsoft Bulgaria held a conference named In Touch which is a successor of the developer part of MS Days. The event is definitely different. It is smaller, there are fewer sessions, the quality of sessions is slightly higher and the part of the event that resembled a fair is significantly reduced. They used the same venue the last DevReach used and while the impact was not as bad as it was on DevReach because there were fewer tracks and rooms on the lower floor were not required it was still a downgrade compared to the previous venue...

   Today is the 3rd of March – the Bulgarian national day. I am not much of a patriot but I get quite annoyed reading Internet comments these days where Russians claim that Bulgarians should be grateful to Russia for our liberation. This is what made me write this article and this is why it is in English. I would write it in Russian if I could but I was born too late to be forced to learn it in school...

   The switch statement sucks. I firmly believe that the only reason it is still haunting C-style languages these days is that it has been with us since ancient times. The switch statement has limited usefulness, remarkably heavy syntax and is likely to produce errors.