The story is about a man, called Bai Ivan. Bai Ivan lives in Sofia but spends a lot of time in a nearby village, where he owns a small house. This house is an endless… Read More »Software principles for non-software developers – Single-responsibility-principle
As a computer programmer I enjoy the most: to write new code to modify existing code to read and understand code This is the question I asked many of my programming friends recently. After posting… Read More »To program is to understand
Programmer Remember your first programs? Your first Hello World? You will launch them from the command line and just print something. Over time your programs became more complex. You still printed a lot of stuff… Read More »Who is watching your logs?
What is this about? Want it or not, at some time your application will need to store something, somewhere. I have spend years working with different relational databases and more recently – few different type… Read More »To ORM or not to ORM – Introduction to jOOQ
A month ago I had the pleasure to go to one of our local Java User Group events – “jProfessionals: Java Day with Venkat”. It was a whole day packed with two talks and a… Read More »On writing (code) well
While everybody is excited about Java 8, many of us did not have the chance to try it out at work. Not yet. How “functional” can our code be if we are stuck with Java… Read More »Exploring Functional Programming Without Java 8
Let’s talk about fat models. And by fat models I mean fat model classes. There are barely any fat human models after all, but this is not the case with fat model classes. We have all heard… Read More »When your fat model is too fat
Week ago I saw this vine: “Programming in movies vs. programming in real life” Funny isn’t it 🙂 It made me think about how fast do you actually need to type as a developer. Do… Read More »Programming in movies and in real life