Software Development
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Insidi-DoS: Internally negotiated, self-image-damaging DoS
What’s more damning and ego-bruising than an external DoS (denial of service) attack? Why, an internally inspired one of course.…
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Technology Decisions Are About Trade Offs and Solving Problems
At some point in the last decade we hit the inflection point where distributed systems, and all their complexities, became…
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Can we learn to restrict our work to a budget?
I’ve previously talked about the idea of shifting from estimates to budgets. The fundamental point of this article is that…
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Software demand curve
Returning to my series of posts applying the tools of economics to software development – Supply & Demand in software…
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Native vs Mobile Web vs Hybrid applications
We have decided on developing a mobile application, but what type of application ? There has been an ongoing debate with…
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What Open Source is (and isn’t) and why you should use it?
Open Source software plays a big role in the Java ecosystem (just think Maven, all the libraries in Maven Central,…
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Common excuses a Developer makes when a feature doesn’t work [And how to avoid them in the future]
I always feel that Developers should have an attitude for development, which I have detailed in the blog post Attitudes…
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Acceptance Testing: Blaming the Tools
About 5 years ago I was on a project to build a system for collateral management. The system was connected…
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This is Stuff: Cryptography & Theory 1: Meaning of Secure
Cryptography & Theory is series of blog posts on things I learned in coursera stanford online crypto class. The class contained…
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