Evaluating similarity between strings. Jaro-Winkler implementation in C#

We recently had a requirement where our application had to let the user know about existing trading security names from the database that were "similar" to what the user was trying to import into the system.

First post

The goal of the blog is to share programming tricks and tools that I run into in my daily life as a developer. I will try not to talk about things you can easily find elsewhere, therefore the activity will be slow on the blog.

Looking back and reflecting about my life as a software developer, it would have really been 100 times tougher if colleagues of the profession out there hadn't shared all the knowledge they have. I think it is time for me to modestly give some of that back and help others in their journeys.