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Automated Testing with MongoDB and OffScale 8 May 2012 | 06:06 am
Last friday, I attended MongoSF 2012 as a speaker. It was a great event, with about a thousand programmers showing up, and some fantastic and deeply technical talks about advanced topics in MongoDB. A...
Schema Management Under Source Control 25 Apr 2012 | 03:37 am
A long time ago, I’ve written a post for Kaltura, the best video management platform out there, where I worked at as a data warehouse consultant and lead developer. I’ve spend a lot of my time there s...
Learning Ruby, Using Koans 16 Apr 2012 | 07:17 pm
For the longest time I wanted to learn Ruby on Rails. It has been bugging me ever since I’ve built my first website, some five or six years ago, that I have failed to find the time to learn the leadin...
One More Time, From The Top 4 Jun 2011 | 03:16 am
Last time I’ve demonstrated a way to create mosaics from images. I wanted to do a little bit of image processing using javascript and HTML5′s new canvas abilities. As I mentioned, this was only the fi...
Messing Around With Images 26 Mar 2011 | 05:45 am
The Side Dish If you know me at all, you know that I always have a side project. I mean, I love the main course as it is full of challenges, but sometimes I need to do something else. I need a Gedank...
A Tale of Two Databases 15 Feb 2011 | 09:53 pm
I’ve been working with databases for almost a decade. The databases I’ve worked with varied in size and brand. For more than half of this time, I’ve worked at a big in-house software provider, working...
Honing my Craft 16 Nov 2010 | 11:05 pm
Baby Steps I’ve been programing for the better part of my life. I’ve started with BASIC, in which I’ve written a small piece of software that allowed me to manually paint a series of bitmaps and anim...
The Right Hand Side of The Network Effect 12 Oct 2010 | 05:30 am
We all know about network effects. We understand them intuitively. In economics and business, a network effect (also called network externality) is the effect that one user of a good or service has o...
Do You Own Your iPhone? 21 Sep 2010 | 07:52 pm
There were some dark times a few years back, when big studios sued old ladies for downloading music illegally. When this failed, they have tried blocking us with DRM technologies. However, DRM was ine...
Democratizing Taxes 6 Sep 2010 | 10:00 pm
There’s an old proverb: Nothing in this world is certain except for death and taxes, but scientists are still trying to prevent death. Government and taxes Governments are a way for people to provi...
