2016-01-25T11:56:00

A collection of best practices for product developer teams. I've found these methods working really well at Google and other Silicon Valley companies, and they can be adopted easily.

2016-01-23T20:03:00

A few simple questions to ask when you are going to evaluate the potential of a startup idea, the company and their product.

2014-08-29

Java’s DataOutputStream and ObjectOutputStream are not able to serialize Strings larger than 64KB. I’ll discuss possible workarounds in this article.

2014-08-29

Java’s default SAX/StAX parsing might return seemingly continuous text in multiple parts (especially when special characters are involved). You should turn on coalescing to receive them as a single text block.

2014-08-29

Java’s Unicode support provides an easy way to remove accents and other diacritics from multilingual texts in a language-independent way, making natural language processing and indexing easier.

2014-08-29

Spring Framework’s property management can enable various environments, where the selected configuration settings are loaded based on env variables.

2014-08-29

JPEG is the most frequently used image format. Depending on the compression ratio, it loses details compared to the original pixels, but it may provide a more compact file size. I was interested in what the right tool is for me to get a balance with the file size and the best available quality.

2014-08-29

Apache Ivy is a Java-based, but generic dependency manager tool, which shines for in-house development teams. In this guide I’ve outlined an organization and automation method that could be helpful to start with it.

2014-08-29

Why was it easy to define facts in the world of books, and why is it so much harder on the Internet? Knowledge is not the thing that is settled anymore.

2014-08-29

People use ElasticSearch (ES) mostly for full-text search, but it can be used to store large amount of data and use it for analytics. Shay Banon, the author of the open-source, distributed search server, talks about how to achieve this.

2014-08-29

"Booom! You’ve been inspired. You’ve a big idea. Yeah? Now what?" Astro Teller shares a few of his mantras that help him to make through challenging times.

2014-08-29

We are uncertain of the future, but that is not something you talk about on a business meeting, it doesn’t sound professional. Dan North gives a few examples how we can embrace the uncertainty and face our fears.

2014-08-29

Memory cards sometimes do fail, and our photos and memorable moments may be lost. Fortunately, not all failure is fatal, and there are tools you may use to recover your photos. PhotoRec is a free and open source tool to recover from such failures.

2014-08-29

Armon Dadgar and Mitchell Hashimoto discuss how and why they are using Riak in production at Kiip, the problems they we facing (increasing demands - 25M+ ops/day) and their solution: migrating from MongoDB to Riak.

2014-08-29

Mikito Takada, author of JavaScript and Node.js books, talks about why and when shall we write single-page applications.

2014-06-12

Paul Graham’s What You Can’t Say is social commentary on heretical thinking and intellectual fashions. It is a really good gym for our brain: how can we detect, analyze and handle our social environment, especially the parts that are unthinkable or at least unsayable.