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
Is Moving All Jars To a Shared lib Folder Beneficial?
We will be running more than one web application on the same tomcat (7.0.22), so we wondered whether there will be a benefit in moving all jars to tomcat/lib insteadContinue reading
Is Reddit Handling Trailing Slashes Incorrectly?
Looking at my blog analytics yesterday, I got half of my reddit views from reddit.com/r/programming, and the other half – from reddit.com/r/programming/ – only one trailing slash difference. The generalContinue 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
Spring MVC Basics – Presentation
Here are the slides for my presentation during the first DZone VIP meetup in Bulgaria. The presentation is short, and the slides can definitely be better, but I’m sharing itContinue reading
Customizing Parameter Names When Binding Spring MVC Command Objects
In spring MVC you can have But that means “jobType” and “location” are the http parameter names, and there is no way to customize that. Which is odd, since thisContinue reading
Send A Relevant Dilbert Strip To Your Boss
The Dilbert comics is just 2 years younger than me, which means there are thousands of strips. Most of them represent a mocked real-world situation, especially about big corporations andContinue reading
A Hibernate Session May Get Flushed When Executing Queries
Today I noticed this Hibernate stactrace: This means that when calling Query#list() (same goes for the JPA variant, which simply invokes the hinbernate class), the session might be flushed. ThatContinue reading
The “Clean Software” Approach To Life
This is going to be an odd publication, that falls more into the “life tips” or “self help” category, than into “programming”. But bear with me. What is “clean software”?Continue reading
Mind The “actions” Param For Facebook Graph API Posts
Recently I noticed that posts to facebook that I make through my tool (welshare) appear collapsed, with a weirdly big logo, as if it was posted to the app page,Continue reading