Well, to start with, I never really did TDD and probably never will. This is merely a response post to Uncle Bob's post bearing the same name from a few weeks ago.

Why no TDD for me?

Let's start with one observation that should be obvious to all: like everything in software development - no developm...

Many modern systems require close to 100% up time, and many of them also deal with large amounts of data. The common practice today is to do this by employing SOA methodologies to build a distributed system, read: have different software handle different roles of your system, and have each of those ...

This post is the first in a series of posts in which I will look at web frameworks in the .NET and Java space (probably with more focus on .NET), both in practical terms and also to discuss the ideas behind them.

The series is more of a high-level overview of modern web-development, surveying major ...

A very common requirement with any database engine is to be able to store and query hierarchical data. This usually comes up in the context of categories for products in an e-commerce website, in a site-structure context (this page needs to be a parent of that page) or when trying to model company h...

This post was triggered by Jon Skeet's tweet about adding Hebrew calendar support to NodaTime. Jon complained that because the hour and day lengths change all the time in the Hebrew calendar, it requires some fundamental changes to NodaTime's inner workings.

Well Jon, I think you can save yourself t...

I was referred to the following video by a friend, and it completely blew my mind. It got my attention at the beginning when the speaker, ex-HP researcher, said joining Google was like taking the red pill:

To me, there are two types of infrastructures - those who manage their servers manually, and ...

A couple of months ago I started working at Buzzilla, a company developing "cutting edge technologies and revolutionary analysis and research methodologies that combine to create advanced solutions aimed at harnessing the vast opportunities presented by online conversation". Or in short, full-text s...

When writing software, there is always this tension between writing good software fast and having good code structure, which usually results in a nice API. These two are completely orthogonal - you can definitely end up having one without the other, and it is really hard and time consuming to have b...

September 1st, 1983. Korean Airlines flight 007 from New York City to Seoul disappeared a couple of hours after take-off. Only later was it discovered that the plane deviated from its original route; instead of flying through air corridor R-20, it entered Soviet airspace and was shot down by a Sovie...

Traditionally, Content Management Systems are about Content. Whenever Data that is not simply a content page was going to be persisted in a CMS, you'd somehow fit it in a Content entity, keeping the thought process always at "how would it look to the end user", never treating it as actual data. Sure...