• Design • 2 min read
What I love about the Kindle…
…is not the device itself, but it is the whole ecosystem that surrounds it.
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- • Web • 3 min read
There is no such thing as Internet Security
During the course of the last months, we have seen frequent news of security breaches, with many websites falling victims of malicious attacks. While this by itself is not a news, the frequency and sc...
- • Coding • 3 min read
Authors ≠ Committers: why most Open Source projects should switch to distributed revision control
I had been thinking about the idea behind this post for a while now, but reading this post about getting newbies involved in open source just convinced me to write it down. Being a concept developed i...
- • Coding • 3 min read
Failure is an option
As Software Engineers, we often tend to be overly optimistic about software. In particular, it often happens that we underestimate the probability of systems and components failures and the impact thi...
- • Coding • 3 min read
What I learnt from coding offline
During the last weeks, I’ve been writing a lot of code while commuting. Since I was working on an application that uses Facebook’s and Amazon’s APIs and I was working offline, I often found myself una...
- • Web • 1 min read
A bit of confusion around Google Bookmarks?
Let’s start with two quick facts: 1. Google recently refurbished Google Bookmarks (after neglecting them for a couple of years), giving them more importance in search and allowing us to share them wit...