The Hash Challenge
The facebook discussion about my previous blogpost went off-topic and resulted in an interesting challenge. One of the commenters (Stilgar) was not convinced that passwords hashed with MD5 (or SHA)Continue reading
Handling Edge Cases
The other day I decided to try Uber. I already had a registration, so, while connected to the Wi-Fi at the house I was in, I requested the car. ItContinue reading
Open Source for the Government [presentation]
A month ago I gave a talk at OpenFest (a Bulgarian conference for open technologies). The talk was in Bulgarian, but I’ve translated the slides, so here they are. Currently,Continue reading
Static Typing Is Not for Type Checking
In his post “Strong typing vs strong testing” Bruce Eckel described the idea, that statically (or strongly) typed languages don’t give you much, because you should verify your programs withContinue reading
Getting Started with Machine Learning
“Machine learning” is a mystical term. Most developers don’t need it at all in their daily work, and the only details about it we know are from some university courseContinue reading
Interrupting Executor Tasks
There’s this usecase that is not quite rare, when you want to cancel a running executor tasks. For example, you have ongoing downloads that you want to stop, or youContinue reading
On Java Generics and Erasure
“Generics are erased during compilation” is common knowledge (well, type parameters and arguments are actually the ones erased). That happens due to “type erasure”. But it’s wrong that everything specifiedContinue reading
Validate Configuration on Startup
Do you remember that time when you spent a whole day trying to fix a problem, only to realize that you have mistyped a configuration setting? Yes. And it wasContinue reading
Load-Testing Guidelines
Load-testing is not trivial. It’s often not just about downloading JMeter or Gatling, recording some scenarios and then running them. Well, it might be just that, but you are luckyContinue reading
EasyCamera Now in Maven Central
Several months ago I created the EasyCamera project (GitHub). As there has been a lot of interest, I just released it to Maven central, so that you don’t need toContinue reading