Get Rid of the URL Pollution
You want to copy the URL of a nice article/video/picture you’ve just opened and send it to friends in skype chats, whatsapp, other messengers or social networks. And you realizeContinue reading
Generating equals(..), hashCode() and toString()
You most probably need to override hashCode(), equals(..) and toString() – I won’t go into details when and why, but you need that (ok, just a reminder – always implementContinue reading
Suggestion for Spam Filters
One of the issues with spam is false positives. “Did you check your spam folder” is often a question to ask if your email is not received on the otherContinue reading
RabbitMQ in Multiple AWS Availability Zones
When working with AWS, in order to have a highly-available setup, once must have instances in more than one availability zone (AZ ≈ data center). If one AZ dies (whichContinue reading
The Cloud Beyond the Buzzword [presentation]
The other day I gave a presentation about “The Cloud”. I talked about buzzwords, incompetence, classification, and most importantly – embracing failure. Here are the slides (the talk was notContinue reading
You Probably Don’t Need a Message Queue
I’m a minimalist, and I don’t like to complicate software too early and unnecessarily. And adding components to a software system is one of the things that adds a significantContinue reading
How to Handle Incompetence?
We’ve all had incompetent colleagues. People that tend to write bad code, make bad decisions or just can’t understand some of the concepts in the project(s). And it’s never trivialContinue reading
Make Tests Fail
This is about a simple testing technique that is probably obvious, but I’ll share it anyway. In case you are not following TDD, when writing tests, make them fail, inContinue reading
An Architecture for E-Voting
E-voting is a hot topic in my country, and has been discussed a lot everywhere. Since we are already using the internet and touch-screen technologies in our everyday lives, whyContinue reading
Integration Tests for External Services
Our systems often depend on 3rd party services (They may even be services internal to the company that we have no control on). Such services include Social Networks exposing APIs,Continue reading