Software Development
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RESTful considered harmful
I don’t like RESTful principles and APIs. In recent years it is seen as universal protocol for inter-process communication, especially…
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NULL is Not The Billion Dollar Mistake. A Counter-Rant
A short while ago, I gave this answer on Quora. The question was “What is the significance of NULL in…
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Building A Chat App With Codename One Part 2
In the second part of this tutorial we will cover the login process for Google and getting a unique id.…
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Why we do not use comments
When I learned PASCAL programming at TU Budapest in 1986 there was a preprocessor developed specially for student code. It…
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How To Make The Most Of Failure
I was asked a hypothetical question: If someone caused a major failure to the business, would that be a reason to fire…
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Building a Scalable and Resilient Architecture
This article is a summery of my DevoxxUK talk about microservices. Like many startups before us, Wix.com started as a…
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Iterative or Incremental?
Hopefully most of my readers have noticed by now that I regularly stray from the Agile Gospel, or rather, I…
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CQRS and Event Sourcing for dummies
CQRS (Command and Query Responsibility Segregation) and Event Sourcing are concepts that are not new at all. Alongside NoSql, Functional…
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R: Bootstrap confidence intervals
I recently came across an interesting post on Julia Evans’ blog showing how to generate a bigger set of data…
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