Archive for the ‘opinion’ Category

Somebody is stealing my website design – what are my options?

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

The authors of this blog also run a software company called ZeroTurnaround. We monitor the mentions of the company name and its products with different tools. I personally use Google Alerts (you get an email when the interwebz mentions your monitored word).
One day we stumbled upon a page that had stolen our website design. It [...]



How to sneak easter eggs past the pointy haired boss

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I’m part of a small team that is developing a cool Java product. We’ve been afloat for more than a year and we’re doing better every month. We’ve grown quite a bit during this time. There used to be only one developer, then I joined the team and now we already have 4 devs.
Until now [...]



6 things you want to know in an interview

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

6 things you want to know in an interview — Artima has a post with the best interview advice I’ve seen for some time. Ignore the boring beginning and check out the Six Hiring Points and how to test for them. I think that positive answers to those questions warrants a great addition to your [...]



The problem with Google Apps Engine

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

The problem with Google Apps Engine — privacy, lock-in and proprietary APIs. How come I’ve never thought of that? Oh, wait, I did…



Google Blah-Blah

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Since the whole internet finds it incredibly important — Google now allows to deploy not only all of your data, but also all of your code on their proprietary, tightly controlled, fully integrated and infinitely scalable platform. As far as I understand it’s inferior to Amazon offering in every way, but one — it has [...]