The other day the reddit community discarded my advice for switching from text-based to binary serialization formats. It was labeled “premature optimization”. I’ll zoom out of the particular case, andContinue reading
Recently I’ve undertaken a personal project (computoser) that is a bit strange. I tried to write software that generates music at random. Good music, that is, because “random” usually generatesContinue reading
Skype screwed up and it got revealed today. Due to a series of stupid things, there is (was) a trivial way to hijack anyone’s account. One of the stupid thingsContinue reading
Spring MVC allows you to serialize objects with @ResponseBody to any format – it has built-in converters for JSON and XML. However, even though your application may support both, youContinue reading
You have a system that has multiple components and they have to communicate. They do that either via internal web services or using a message queue. Normally, you would wantContinue reading