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Career

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…
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DevOps

Keep Server IPs In Apps
As a consequence of the Dyn attack many major websites were down, including twitter â the browsers could not resolve…
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Software Development

Using Named Database Locks
In a beginnerâs guide to concurrency, I mentioned advisory locks. These are not the usual table locks â they are…
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Software Development

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,…
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Software Development

The Broken Scientific Publishing Model and My Attempt to Improve It
Iâll begin this post with a rant about the state of scientific publishing, then review the technology âdisruptionâ landscape and…
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Software Development

I Stopped Contributing To Stackoverflow, But Itâs Not Declining
âThe decline of Stackoverflowâ is now trending on reddit, and I started this post as a comment in the thread,…
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Enterprise Java

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…
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Software Development

The Right To Be Forgotten In Your Application
Youâve probably heard about âthe right to be forgottenâ according to which Google has to delete search results about you,…
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Scala

Why I Introduced Scala In Our Project
I donât like Scala. And I think it has some bad and very ugly aspects that make it a poor…
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