Do Web 2.0 Companies Really Have The Best Technical Talent?
There are a lot of cool companies with products on the web that millions of people are using. I’ll wondered whether I should label them “web 2.0”, “silicon valley”, “coolContinue reading
Do Programmers Get Bored?
Programmers are people who create computer programs. (I’ll skip the discussion whether it should be “programmer”, “developer”, “engineer”, “coder” or whatever. You know what I’m talking about). What makes programmingContinue reading
Bcrypt. It’s The Bare Minimum.
The other day I read this Arstechnica article and realized how tragic the situation is. And it is not this bad because of the evil hackers. It’s bad because fewContinue reading
HTML5/Javascript Desktop Software
Remember when we used to download and install software? We do that rarely these days. Every tool that we need has also a web version, which is cooler and doesn’tContinue reading
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