The Hash Challenge
The facebook discussion about my previous blogpost went off-topic and resulted in an interesting challenge. One of the commenters (Stilgar) was not convinced that passwords hashed with MD5 (or SHA)Continue reading
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
Open Source for the Government [presentation]
A month ago I gave a talk at OpenFest (a Bulgarian conference for open technologies). The talk was in Bulgarian, but I’ve translated the slides, so here they are. Currently,Continue reading
Static Typing Is Not for Type Checking
In his post “Strong typing vs strong testing” Bruce Eckel described the idea, that statically (or strongly) typed languages don’t give you much, because you should verify your programs withContinue reading
Getting Started with Machine Learning
“Machine learning” is a mystical term. Most developers don’t need it at all in their daily work, and the only details about it we know are from some university courseContinue 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
Interrupting Executor Tasks
There’s this usecase that is not quite rare, when you want to cancel a running executor tasks. For example, you have ongoing downloads that you want to stop, or youContinue reading