Amend Your Contract To Allow For Side Projects
The other day Joel Spolsky blogged a wonderful overview of the copyright issues with software companies in terms of its employees. The bottom line is: most companies have an explicitContinue reading
Progress in Electronic Governance [talk]
I’ve been an advisor to the depury prime minister of Bulgaria for the past year and a half. And on this year’s OpenFest conference I tried to report on whatContinue reading
Domain Fallback Mechanism In Apps
As a consequence of the Dyn attack many major websites were down, including twitter – the browsers could not resolve an IP address of the servers because the authoritative nameContinue reading
Using Named Database Locks
In a beginner’s guide to concurrency, I mentioned advisory locks. These are not the usual table locks – they are table-agnostic, database-specific way to obtain a named lock from yourContinue reading
Short DNS Record TTL And Centralization Are Serious Risks For The Internet
Yesterday Dyn, a DNS-provider, went down after a massive DDoS. That led to many popular websites being inaccessible, including twitter, LinkedIn, eBay and others. The internet seemed to be “crawlingContinue reading
The Broken Scientific Publishing Model and My Attempt to Improve It
I’ll begin this post with a rant about the state of scientific publishing, then review the technology “disruption” landscape and offer a partial improvement that I developed (source). Scientific publishingContinue reading
I Stopped Contributing To Stackoverflow, But It’s Not Declining
“The decline of Stackoverflow” is now trending on reddit, and I started this post as a comment in the thread, but it got too long. I’m in the 0.01% (whichContinue reading
Traditional Web Apps And RESTful APIs
When we are building web applications these days, it is considered a best practice to expose all our functionality as a RESTful API and then consume it ourselves. This usuallyContinue reading
The Right To Be Forgotten In Your Application
You’ve probably heard about “the right to be forgotten” according to which Google has to delete search results about you, if you ask them to. According to a new GeneralContinue reading
Why I Introduced Scala In Our Project
I don’t like Scala. And I think it has some bad and very ugly aspects that make it a poor choice for mainstream development. But recently I still introduced itContinue reading