Sarah Taraporewalla’s Technical Ramblings

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If you haven’t heard of Australia’s plans to censor the internet, let me be the first to inform you. The current government has a plan “to force all Australian ISPs to implement server-based filtering systems to block access to ‘child pornography’, ‘X-rated material’, ‘violence’, ‘prohibited’ material, ‘inappropriate’ material and ‘unwanted’ material on a secret blacklist compiled [...]

At the conclusion of a lot of projects, we conduct retrospectives in order to gain a deeper understanding of the success factors of the project, discuss what could be improved and how to incorporate these into future projects. How many of these focus around the actual design elements of the software developed? I have not [...]

I am often asked how to pronounce my surname. It’s not too difficult, but for your benefit, I will now attempt at a phonetic guide to my last name.  Essentially, it can be broken down into 3 parts: tara – pore – walla**.  Tara pronounced ta-ra. Like the girls name; like the house in Gone [...]

I love ReSharper. It makes life in Visual Studio such a breeze. You are just so productive in it, with all of its navigation tools, code completion and automatic refactorings. I tried to use Visual Studio without ReSharper the other day – it was so impeded that I swapped computers after about 5 minutes work (mind you [...]