Proposal for an E-Government Architecture
Having worked for a project that was part of the Bulgarian e-government in the past, I have a good overview of what and how can and should be implemented inContinue 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
In Favour of Self-Signed Certificates?
Today I watched the Google I/O presentation about HTTPS everywhere and read a couple of articles, saying that Google is going to rank sites using HTTPS higher. Apart from that,Continue reading
Algorithmic Music Composition [paper]
After I wrote my first post about computoser.com, many were interested in the code. Then I open-sourced it. And now, to complete my contribution, I wrote a paper about myContinue reading
Making Side Projects With New Technologies
(Captain Obvious mantle on) You are a software engineer and maybe you have a side project – something that you do at home in your spare time. If you don’t,Continue reading
Development Overhead
What does a developer spend his time on? Writing code, debugging, thinking and communicating with colleagues (that includes meetings). Anything that is beyond these activities is unnecessary overhead (some meetingsContinue reading
The DSL Jungle
DSLs are a common thing in the programming world nowadays. Many frameworks and tools decide to build a DSL for their…specific things. Builds tools are the primary candidates, but testingContinue reading
Scala – the Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly [presentation]
The other day I gave a talk on a tech conference about my experience with Scala. Ironically, just two weeks after I wrote that I don’t like Scala, I startedContinue reading
Musical Scale Generator
We all know the C-major scale: do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do. But what’s behind it? And how many other scales there are? It’s complicated. Let me do a brief introduction into the theory first,Continue reading
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