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Short project story has inspired me to write this blog post - one of the newjoiners on the project has made an effort to introduce an interesting (and very useful) tool to his team members. Unfortunately, they were not eager to listen as they took this suggestion personally (sounds ridiculous,...
Some clients are a bit afraid of using HTML5: * "Why should we follow the standard that hasn’t even been finalized yet?" * "What if one or some of the big players (like Oracle or Microsoft) decides to give it up and bring up their own standard?"...
To cut the long story short, I’ll send you directly to the very interesting link: http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/11/08/facebook-engineering-team-builds-corona-for-mapreduce-jobs/ You can find there an amusing story about Facebook engineers making the decision of giving up on Apache Hadoop (Map-Reduce implementation) and going for their own...
It’s quite funny to observe the way in which new generation of engineers resembles the past ones. We all are perfectionists, we all have our own ideas how to create software, we don’t like working with other people code and we all do the same mistakes once and...
Yesterday, I was asked to help with solving some kind of development problem by one of the new programmers on the project. I’ve started with examining the error messages displayed on the screen, but in a second or two, I needed to switch window and type some commands in...
What’s ZeroMQ (0MQ)? It’s a non-brokered asynchronous messaging way to connect application on various platforms. Its creators call it "The Intelligent Transport Layer" (http://www.zeromq.org/). Why should you check it out? * Because it’s ultra-fast and lightweight * Because it supports various protocols, suited for...