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
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
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
Algorithmic Music Influenced by Tweets
Every now and then I make some addition to my algorithmic music composer. And now I decided to allow users to hear music that is based on their tweets. ItContinue reading
The Low Quality of Scientific Code
Recently I’ve been trying to get a bit into music theory, machine learning, computational linguistics, so I ended up looking at libraries and tools written by the scientific community –Continue reading
Development “Methodologies”
Below are several development “methodologies” that are popular and even industry-standard: Hype-Driven Development – you are either a startup, or you are given the freedom to choose whatever technology youContinue reading
Common Misconceptions About Java
Java is the most widely used language in the world ([citation needed]), and everyone has an opinion about it. Due to it being mainstream, it is usually mocked, and sometimesContinue reading
The Optional Type API
Java 8 introduces the Optional class. In a nutshell, instead of returning null, and then checking for null, you return an Optional instance, which can either have or not haveContinue reading