The Declining Quality of Low and Middle Class Laptops
My old laptop broke (3.5 years in service already), so I had to get a new one. I thought it would be easy – I went to an online store,Continue reading
Slippers
Ever since I started working full-time, I’ve been wearing slippers at work. Just because it is way more comfortable than staying with your shoes on all day long. Sounds weird?Continue reading
Those Evil Frameworks and Their Complexity
Frameworks like Hibernate and Spring are industry-standards. JSF, EJB and the likes are also standards and used in many applications. But there are always people that are against these frameworks.Continue reading
How Programming Becomes a Hobby Rather Than a Mere Profession
Programming is a profitable profession so many choose this path for their career. However, as with any profession, if you don’t like what you are doing, that is – ifContinue reading
RSS Is Not Dead. You Are Using It in a Wrong Way.
These days the topic about RSS being dead is active on techcrunch. (I know this isn’t much of a technical article, but it is somewhat related to web usability) So,Continue reading
Why Startups Should Not Choose NoSQL
The NoSQL hype is omnipresent. And many startups are tempted to go for Cassandra/MongoDB/HBase/Redis/… . Here I’ll argue why they should rather stick to a SQL solution – MySQL orContinue reading
We Don’t Need No Password Strength Checker
Password strength checkers appear from time to time on web registration forms. But in my opinion they are useless. I’ll justify. Jeff Atwood lists the possible ways to obtain one’sContinue reading
On Domain-Driven Design, Anemic Domain Model, Code Generation, Dependency Injection and More…
Eric Evans has formulated what domain-driven design (DDD) is. Martin Fowler is a great supporter and advocate of DDD. These are remarkable names and it is almost certain they areContinue reading
The Psychology of Voting and Choice (on Stackoverflow and in General)
Voting is at the center of http://stackoverflow.com (a programming Q&A site), and at the center of democracy (at least such are the claims). How and why do people vote? TodayContinue reading
A Month on Stackoverflow
Stackoverflow is a programming Q & A site. There are all sorts of developers’ topics can be asked there, and most of them get answered pretty quickly. I won’t goContinue reading