All That Cloud: Amazon, Google App Engine, Windows Azure, Heroku, Jelastic
You wanna be in the cloud? You have plenty of options. I’ve evaluated or used many of them, so here are a few words about each. (I will include someContinue reading
Proof of Concept: Play! Framework
We are starting a new project and we have to choose the web framework. Our default choice is grails, because the team already has experience with it, but I decidedContinue reading
Links To Your Static Resources Are Forever
I just got a couple of comments on stackoverflow that the links in my answers are broken. They were all about spring answers, and it appeared spring have changed theContinue reading
ORM Haters Don’t Get It
I’ve seen tons of articles and comments (especially comments) that tell us how bad, crappy and wrong is the concept of ORM (object-relational mapping). Here are the usual claims, andContinue reading
Javascript-off Unfriendly, And Proud About It
Your site should work even with javascript turned off, they say. I strongly disagree. First, it is a lot of effort to make a function-heavy site work without javascript. You’veContinue reading
Keep As Much Stuff As Possible In The Application Itself
There’s a lot of Ops work to every project. Setting up server machines, and clusters of them, managing the cloud instances, setting up the application servers, HAProxy, load balancers, databaseContinue reading
Programming Puns
Though not strictly puns, I tried to make them sort-of funny: – What are you doing on this bench with a bank slip and a marker? – Benchmarking our transactions.Continue reading
Code Reviews Do Not Guarantee A Good Product
If you have a decent development process, you most probably have code reviews. But it appears many people (especially management) believe that code reviews make sure the end product isContinue reading
My Problem With Your Interviews
This article comes right after Facebook rejected me after 3 phone interviews, but it is not going to be a hate-post. In fact, I’ve been planning to write it forContinue reading
State Does Not Belong In The Code
What is “state” in your web application? It’s the data that gets stored (regardless of the destination – memory, database, file-system). The application itself must not store any state inContinue reading