- Logging in .NET Core Console Applications (2021-05-11) - Logging should be simple. It should come out of the box in any programming language + framework. I’ve seen too many developers use Console.WriteLine(...) as…
- Learning ML.NET (2) – Evaluating and Improving the Classifier (2021-03-22) - In the previous post (Learning ML.NET – Using ML to Identify Lego Colors), we wrote a program that trains an ML model to identify the…
- Book Review – Think and Grow Rich (2021-01-14) - Think and Grow Right, by Napoleon Hill, is highly recommended by many of the financial/investment blogs I read, so I decided it was time to…
- Learning ML.NET – Using ML to Identify Lego Colors (2020-12-27) - There comes a time in every LEGO® fan’s life where you have so many pieces that sorting stuff by the type of piece is not good…
- Uploading a File in ASP.NET Core with Razor Pages (2020-10-08) - In this tutorial I’m going to show how simple it is to create an upload file page using ASP.NET core and Razor pages. The codebase…
- Implementing a Background Task in C# ASP.NET Core (2020-10-04) - Web applications are usually reactive, which means that they receive requests from outside, process these requests, and return a response. At the same time, most…
- Scraping Dynamic Web Pages with C# and Selenium (2020-09-30) - A while back I wrote a post on how to scrape web pages using C# and HtmlAgilityPack (It was in May? So long ago? Wow!).…
- Scraping Web Pages with C# and HtmlAgilityPack (2020-05-06) - Web scraping is fun and very useful. There is a lot of information on the internet and creating applications that use this information is fun.…
- Playing with VSCode: C# Hello World Project (2020-05-03) - Visual Studio Code (or VSCode at it usually known) has become one of the most widely used IDEs, and not by mistake. The interface is…
- Book Review – Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy (The Three Body Problem) (2020-04-21) - The Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy is the first Chinese Sci-Fi book(s) I’ve ever read. Actually, it’s probably the first Chinese book I’ve ever read.…
- Book Review – This is Going to Hurt (2020-02-12) - With a strong mix of reality, sarcasm, and medicine, “This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor” by Adam Kay is the…
- Book Review – The Dance of the Possible (2019-12-13) - Can you learn creativity? Can you practice creativity? Or are some people just creative and others not? Scott Berkun answers some of these questions and…
- Learning C3.js – Lesson 5 – Mixing Chart Types (2019-10-28) - Previous Lesson: Learning C3.js – Lesson 4 – Bar Charts. As I wrote before, we (humans) have the capacity to get information from visual data…
- Learning C3.js – Lesson 4 – Bar Charts (2019-10-25) - Previous lesson: Learning C3.js – Lesson 3 – Line Charts Bar charts are the method to represent categorical data series, in which each category has…
- Learning C3.js – Lesson 2 – Chart Types (2019-10-14) - Previous lesson: Learning C3.js – Lesson 1 – Getting Started. Let’s do a short tour of the char types supported by C3.js and how they…
- Learning C3.js – Lesson 3 – Line Charts (2019-10-14) - Previous lesson: Learning C3.js – Lesson 2 – Chart Types. In the previous lesson I went broad showing all types of charts. Now it’s time…
- Learning C3.js – Lesson 1 – Getting Started (2019-10-12) - I’m working on a site where I talk about data in a specific field (not going to talk about it or promote it here for…
- Stop Wasting Time Trying to Fix the Past (2019-10-08) - Yesterday I found myself spending a lot of time reviewing old blog posts to see if they moved OK on my latest migration. Posts…
- Publishing to Azure hosted WordPress with C# using WordPressPCL (2019-10-02) - I’m writing this post because I wasted an unexpected (and long) amount of time doing this, and maybe with this post (and this SO question),…
- Don’t Break My Mental Model – Beware of C# Extension Methods (2019-07-23) - I think extension methods is one of the things I love most in C# and is definitely missing in Java. For those that are not…
- Book Review – Homo Deus (2019-06-29) - Yuval Noah Harari is a great storyteller. And he does a great job again Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow, a kind of sequel to…
- Another Factor to Consider about the High Cost of Software Quality (2019-06-06) - Yesterday I read an article by Martin Fowler titled “Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?” which really resonates with my experience as a software…
- Book Review – The Brain that Changes Itself (2019-05-28) - The brain is a very complicated system that we are still trying to understand. In the last decades the have been incredible leaps in this…
- Book Review – Start with Why (2019-05-01) - After watching a number of Simon Sinek videos and hearing a lot about this book from many sources, I had to read this book. It…
- Book Review – The 4-Hour Work Week (2019-03-19) - Oh yes. We all dream of this. Working 4 hours a week, and then enjoying the rest of the time for things that we want…
- Book Review – Man’s Search for Meaning (2019-02-27) - In this excellent mind-turning book, Viktor Frankl writes about the deeper meaning of life, and how important this is to all of us. Having lived…
- Azure Functions – Part 7: Blob, Queue, and Cosmos DB Triggers (2018-11-28) - Previous tutorial: Azure Functions – Part 6: HTTP and Timer Triggers Continuing with theme of the previous tutorials, let’s investigate data triggers work. There are three…
- Azure Functions – Part 6: HTTP and Timer Triggers (2018-11-18) - Previous Tutorial: Azure Functions – Part 5: Deploying to Azure from VSCode Two basic and important concepts to understand in Azure Functions are Triggers and Bindings.…
- Azure Functions – Part 5: Deploying to Azure from VSCode (2018-11-10) - Previous Tutorial: Azure Functions – Part 4: Working with Visual Studio Code and Persisting Data Continuing from the previous tutorial, we’ll deploy the function we…
- Azure Functions – Part 4: Working with Visual Studio Code and Persisting Data (2018-11-07) - Previous Tutorial: Azure Functions – Part 3: Handling HTTP Query GET and POST Requests While writing code directly in the Azure portal is awesome, the…
- Book Review – How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (2018-10-28) - I’m a long time reader of anything that goes out of Scott Adams’ hands: Dilbert comics, books, non-Dilbert books, his blog. He is smart, funny,…
- Azure Functions – Part 3: Handling HTTP Query GET and POST Requests (2018-10-22) - Previous Tutorial: Azure Functions – Part 2: Serving HTML Pages with Azure Functions Serving static pages is interesting, but a real application needs input from the…
- Book Review – Death is of Vital Importance (2018-07-20) - What is death? How can we cope better with the death of those close to us? Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross talks about this in her great…
- Azure Functions – Part 2: Serving HTML Pages with Azure Functions (2018-03-17) - Previous Tutorial: Azure Functions – Part 1: Getting Started In the last tutorial we created a simple Azure Function that returned a value. I’m going…
- Azure Functions – Part 1: Getting Started (2018-02-06) - I love to write software. And because I’m not a software developer anymore I don’t get much time to do it, and it has always…
- Book Review – The Journey (2017-12-24) - Another venture into the “I can cure myself” theme that I started with I Can See Clearly Now, Brandon Bayes tells her story managed to…
- Book Review – Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2017-12-17) - Reading (and finishing) this book was a great experience for me. I decided to read it in Hebrew, my 3rd language and the language in which…
- How I Broke Facebook’s Algorithm (2017-12-13) - If you are a user of Facebook, you are their product. Their strongest desire is for you to stay on the site/app as much as possible, and if…
- Book Review – Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (2017-06-25) - Habits are we do without thinking, things we do with little or no conscious thought, which take minimal mental effort, and simply happen. From a…
- Book Review – I Can See Clearly Now (2016-11-17) - When I started reading I Can See Clearly Now, I had no idea why it was on my kindle. And this made me very curious……
- Book Review – Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (2016-09-12) - A lot of the time in my position as Product Manager is invested in convincing people (mainly developers, but also managers, and sometimes even customers)…
- Book Review – And Then I Thought I Was a Fish (2016-09-04) - This book is the amazing story of a guy (who from his writing seems very smart) that went for an acid trip, and almost never…
- The Wonderful World of Podcasts (2016-08-02) - Did you know that handwriting may be better for taking notes than a computer? Or that blind persons can see, literally, see? Or that underhanded
- Book Review – Hogfather (2016-05-29) - I thought there couldn’t be a more philosophical Terry Pratchett book than Small Gods. It was so deep, so… right, that I thought that no…
- Book Review – The China Study (2016-04-15) - How much does food affect our health? And how does traditional medicine work with this relation? From my experience, it is hard to know. We…
- Book Review – Thinking, Fast and Slow (2016-02-14) - Continuing on the subject of human behavior (started with this book), I finished reading Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman. What a…
- Adding JAR Dependencies to an Eclipse Plugin Maven Tycho Build (2016-01-23) - Something that is constantly bothering me when developing the OPP project is the use of hard-coded Java library dependencies. I manually downloaded the jars for…
- Book Review – Predictably Irrational (2016-01-17) - If you ask most people around you if they are rational beings, I’m fairly sure most will answer that yes, they are rational. But if…
- Shaping the Future of Visual Programming (2015-12-02) - But seriously – those following me for some time, know that I’m really into visual languages and visual programming. After a lot of work and…
- Changing the Font of a JOptionPane (2015-10-31) - When working with a high-resolution monitors, like the one in the Surface Pro 3 (did I tell you how awesome this baby is?), programs need…
- JSONPlaceholder: a “mock” RESTful API for Learning/Testing (2015-10-25) - When I’m learning new things, I always like to have real, simple examples that work. This makes for easier progress and also gives a good…
- Calling a Web API from Java using Unirest (2015-10-14) - Working with web services has become standard practice today, and it always felt strange to me how much work it took me to call one.…
- Book Review – The Lean Startup (2015-09-02) - I approached this book with some skepticism. After having read “Who moved my cheese”, which is basically a repetition of a very simple idea for…
- Creating Azure Environments using Azure Resource Manager Templates (2015-08-31) - Automation is cool. I love automation. Many times I created scripts to build and rebuild my test/demo/play environments in azure. Most of the time my…
- Must Read – Marketing Myopia, by Theodore Levitt (2015-08-19) - I don’t quite remember how I came by this article, but after reading it, re-reading it, marking the jewels in it, and memorizing them, I’m…
- A Lone Developer Can’t Hunt a Mammoth (2015-08-09) - I’ve noticed lately that I spend a lot of my time just sitting and talking with other people in my team about the things we…
- Please Don’t Force Async On Me (2015-06-18) - I am working lately with some C# libraries (won’t name the suspects as they are not alone in their crime) which for some unknown reason,…
- Lenovo X1 Carbon (1st Gen) vs Microsoft Surface Pro 3 (2015-06-17) - The main tool of a developer is his computer. Some years ago laptops were not powerful enough for most development tasks, but today they have…
- Letting Go – A Foundation of Agile Software Development (2015-05-28) - During the last months I’ve had some personal issues that required me to take some time of work and dedicate myself to my family. Things…
- JavaScript Tutorial – Part 5: Statements (2015-05-17) - Previous Tutorial: Object Creation and Prototype Chains While theoretically we can do anything with functions and basic data structures, programmers (unlike mathematicians) like their code…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 26: Activating Tools from the Context Menu (2015-05-06) - Previous tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 25: Showing Feedback to the User Usability is very important when creating user interfaces, adn having…
- JavaScript Tutorial – Part 4: Object Creation and Prototype Chains (2015-04-27) - Previous Tutorial: Variable Scope and Closures The term “Object-Oriented programming (OOP)” has been greatly overused, and JavaScript is not one of the exceptions. For someone…
- JavaScript Tutorial – Part 3: Variable Scope and Closures (2015-04-19) - Previous Tutorial: Variables, Functions, and Objects Naming is one of the hardest problems in programming. Since there are many things to decide when creating a…
- JavaScript Tutorial – Part 2: Variables, Functions, and Objects (2015-04-11) - Previous Tutorial: Hello JavaScript! Variables Javascript is a dynamically typed language, so variables don’t have types (opposite to strongly typed languages such as Ada, Java,…
- JavaScript Tutorial – Part 1: Hello JavaScript! (2015-04-08) - I am now starting to learn JavaScript, and one thing I have learned over the years is that the best way for me to remember…
- The Javascript “var” Keyword (2015-02-03) - As all dynamic languages, javascript lets you set a value to a variable anywhere in code, without having to declare the variable. But there are…
- Stop doing what you hate (2015-01-27) - Regular readers of my blog may have noticed that I stopped sending my weekly readings summary. So yes, I stopped doing it, and not only…
- My First Year at Microsoft (2015-01-01) - Today (more or less) I celebrate my first years as a Microsoft FTE (Full-Time Employee). And I say celebrate because I am very happy of…
- Overcoming Analysis Paralysis (2014-12-27) - Four months ago my car (a 1998 model) started giving me too many problems, so I decided it was time to sell it before it…
- On leadership, the developer’s job and speed, and the lead’s paradox – Vainolo’s Weekly Readings (2014-12-01) - Agile and Leadership – Turn the Ship Around A leader-follower team has one head telling others what to do. But a great team works with…
- New Page – PowerShell Notebook (2014-11-30) - I did a lot of work recently with PowerShell, learning a lot on the way (and also cursing a lot :-)). As I like to…
- On Motivation, Obligations, Alerting, and the MLP – Vainolo’s Weekly Readings (2014-11-24) - How a Small Change Can Boost Your Motivation and Performance I love empirical psychology that helps us learn how to trick ourselves into being more…
- My TechEd EU 2014 Presentation (2014-11-23) - I forgot to tell you! I presented my product, Azure AD Application Proxy in TechEd EU 2014. This is me on the podium before the presentation: Listening…
- A tale of Dependencies, Maven, Eclipse and Wasting Time (2014-11-22) - This should have been easy. Last week I started doing some refactoring on my OPP code and took the opportunity to start using dependency injection.…
- On Leading, Software Defects, Technical Debt, and Big Data – Vainolo’s Weekly Readings (2014-11-19) - I’ve been somewhat silent lately, because of a three-week long hiatus (I always wanted to use that word!) of business and personal travel + getting back to…
- Book Review – Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion (2014-10-26) - There are things that are hard to change, and one of them is human nature. And this book, written 30 years ago, is a proof of…
- Email in the Morning, Transparency, the Two-Pizza Rule, and Statistics – Vainolo’s Weekly Reading (2014-10-21) - Don’t Check Your Email in the Morning Why do you check your email in the morning? Because something crucial may have happened overnight. Get over…
- Autumn Cleaning (2014-10-18) - Somewhere in my life, it became quite important to me not wasting other people’s time (probably because I hate when other people waste my time…). This is…
- On Solving Pains, Architecture, Snippets and Superpowers – Vainolo’s Weekly Readings (2014-10-06) - What type of pain are you solving? For a new product to succeed, it must solve a “pain” that someone is suffering. How much they…
- Filtering PowerShell Output as Text (2014-09-30) - The PowerShell command-line shell is very powerful, and for people coming from *nix backgrounds (like me), it is the closest thing in Windows to the…
- Prototype Driven Development (2014-09-28) - When starting a new software project, the number of unknowns is huge. We have learned the hard way that one of the most costly problems…
- We Don’t Know Enough About Software Development (2014-09-23) - It has become a trend to have opinions on how software should be developed. No, let me rephrase that, software developers have always had very…
- FDD, Agile Pitfalls, Tricks to make Progress, and the MCR – Vainolo’s Weekly Readings (2014-09-22) - Fear Driven Development – FDD There are many methodologies that can help you deliver better products: TDD, BDD, and even DDD. And there is also…
- Dead Code, Application Monitoring, Tips for Software Engineers and Things they should Know – Vainolo’s Weekly Reading (2014-09-15) - The cost of dead code and the only technique you need to know to clean it up “Dead code isn’t always obvious. It has a…
- Truths for Developers, Software Complexity, Happiness and Procrastination – Vainolo’s Weekly Reading (2014-09-09) - What I tell all new programmers A good list of what is programming and how you can be a great programmer. Some truths that many…
- 2 Tools to Find and Install Great Software to Your Computer (2014-09-05) - One problem of having too many information sources (basically using the internet) is that there are too many things available. This is a problem for me when…
- On Code Reviews, DevOps Culture, Why companies fail to change, and Why software development is Hard – Vainolo’s Weekly Reading (2014-09-01) - Don’t waste time on Code Reviews Code reviews are good, but they should not be overused. Research has shown that most of the bugs are…
- Taking Azure Redis Cache for a ride – testing a simple Producer/Consumer program (2014-08-26) - In my “younger” days, I worked in a team that developed/maintained an application written in Ada, which used Oracle 8 as its database. Our performance…
- The Elevator Test, the Theory of Motivation, DRY enough, and are Humans “Resources?” – Vainolo’s Weekly Readings (2014-08-24) - Can Your Team Pass The Elevator Test? “Software developers think their job is writing code. But it’s not. Their job is to solve the customer’s…
- How Microsoft became agile, being a doctor, defining quality, and writing a blog – Vainolo’s weekly reading (2014-08-14) - How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century A story of how Microsoft moved from the good-old waterfall software development methodology to more…
- Culture, Standups, Hating your code, and Sharing information – Vainolo’s weekly readings (2014-07-24) - Based on suggestions from a number of sites, I decided to update the title of my weekly reading list to include more data on what…
- Weekly Reading Material – 28/04/2014 (2014-07-17) - Getting back to normal after some very complicated months… Here it is again – the weekly reading list. Why A Secured Network Is Like The…
- C# for the Impatient, Lesson 1 – The Basics (2014-05-14) - To be able to follow this tutorial, I assume that you have a working Visual Studio environment (I’m using VS2013). I’m pretty sure there are…
- Book Review – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (2014-05-09) - I heard a lot about this books many years ago and never got my hands on it, but after my latest streak of philosophy reading,…
- Weekly Reading Summary (2014-05-09) - Here are some interesting articles from my last week of internet reading. Enjoy. Trojan Infects Linux, Unix Servers Worldwide Yes, against conventional knowledge, *nix can…
- Weekly Reading Material – 28/04/2014 (2014-04-28) - Highlights from my last week of internet reading. Happy software developers solve problems better: psychological measurements in empirical software engineering Software companies invest a lot…
- Be Proud of Who You Are (2014-04-28) - I am proud of who I am, of what I am. Not because I think I’m better than others, not because I think that my…
- Weekly Reading Material – 17/04/2014 (2014-04-22) - A bit late this time because of the holidays. The highlights of my last week of internet reading. Enjoy 5 People Who Destroy Your Culture…
- Open Source Contributions – Can you really make a difference? (2014-04-08) - Last week I read this interesting post by Lars Vogel, promoting people to contribute to the Eclipse project. He shows that a single developer can…
- Weekly Reading Material – 03/04/2014 (2014-04-03) - Here are some interesting articles from my last week of internet reading. Enjoy. How Fast Web is Impairing How You Think Slow down and smell…
- Programming – Not for the family guy/gal? (2014-04-01) - Disclaimer: as most non-technical posts in this blog, what follows are gut-feelings that transferred to writing. These are neither proven facts nor truths, so handle…
- Weekly Reading Material – 27/03/2014 (2014-03-27) - Here are some interesting articles from my last week of internet reading. Enjoy. How to be a sane programmer, The Stress Of Being A Computer…
- Automation is not about saving keystrokes (2014-03-24) - There are many posts out there calling us to automate everything. And some think that the main reason to automate a task is to save…
- Weekly Reading Material – 20/03/2014 (2014-03-20) - Here are some interesting articles from my last week of internet reading. Enjoy. The Programmer Productivity Paradox “If the average programmer writes about 50 lines…
- Two tales of great customer service (2014-03-16) - Good service creates happy customers, and happy customers keep coming back to spend more money. Here are two examples of GREAT customer service that I…
- Weekly Reading Material – 14/03/2014 (2014-03-14) - Summary of my weekly readings. The Test Waste Ratio Have we replaced bugs with test failures? Interesting analysis. http://www.gilzilberfeld.com/2014/03/the-test-waste-ratio.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gilzilberfeld+%28Geek+out+of+water%29 Treat bugs as fires Fire deaths…
- StackExchange Software Recommendations in Beta (2014-03-10) - In software development, we are always asking ourselves which tool to use to solve the problem we are trying to solve. Should we use SQL…
- Weekly Reading Summary – 07/03/2014 (2014-03-07) - Some very interesting non-technical material this week. But as you know, the biggest problem in software development is not technical, it’s human. The Science of…
- Vooza – It wouldn’t be so funny if it wasn’t so real (2014-03-06) - I don’t know how this video got into my reading list (oh, now I know, thanks to Software Lead Weekly). So what is this? it’s…
- Weekly Reading Summary – 27/02/2014 (2014-02-27) - This week something terrible happened… on Monday my RSS feed went down to ZERO!!! Disaster. But the next day I woke up with 100+ new…
- Coding in the Train (2014-02-26) - Since the start of this year, I travel to work using the train, which gives me about 30 minutes of programming time (more or less).…
- StackOverflow is Testing You (2014-02-24) - Sometimes, to clear up my head, I go to StackOverflow and review some edits (yes, I’m that kind of person…). Couple of small tasks with…
- Weekly Readings – 23/2/2014 (2014-02-23) - A couple of weeks ago I started sending to my co-workers a weekly summary of what I read that week. But why not share this…
- Start-up workers have it easier (2014-02-05) - In the start-up world, you have a clear goal – your product. It either works or you’re out of a job. It is also easier…
- Becoming a slave of your phone (2014-01-25) - My kid made this sculpture for me in his ceramic lessons. I guess he is trying to tell me something 🙂 (I you didn’t see…
- Contributing to Open Source – The Good and The Bad (2014-01-20) - I am not a big contributor to Open Source. If you don’t count the random code that I have written in my blog and host…
- Theme Playing (2014-01-15) - I’m playing a bit with the site’s theme lately. I’m trying to find a theme that I like, looks good on desktop and mobile for…
- Access Control, Privacy, and Accessibility – The Security Triangle (2014-01-15) - I wanted to write a post on this subject, but while searching for sources I found that my idea of a security triangle is not…
- Book Review – A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons (2014-01-01) - Well… The title probably says it all – once I started reading A Clash of Kings, I just couldn’t stop. And in these modern days…
- Is your computer slow? Maybe it’s your browser’s fault (2013-12-15) - I revived one of my old computers recently. Not a very old computer – built-in 2007, with a Quad Core Intel QX9650, 2GB RAM, 500GB…
- Today Someone Died (2013-11-13) - Someone I know was very sick for the last couple of months. Not someone close but someone very similar to me. Relatively same age, same…
- Running Eclipse Plug-In Unit Tests with Maven and Tycho (2013-11-05) - After my latest round of tooling for the Object-Process Programming project, I have done a lot of development, adding on the way many new unit…
- Paying the Price for Not Doing Continuous Deployment (2013-10-17) - Some time ago I had some problems maintaining my CI (Continuous Integration) build. I run my CI build in Tracis-CI, which hooks to Github and…
- Gittip – A New Way to Give Back (2013-10-14) - The classic way to give thanks to a developer/blogger for their work is by giving them donations, usually through Paypal. But Paypal is both limited…
- Robotics – The Next Revolution (2013-10-11) - Robots are nothing new. They have been part of our society for many decades already, starting from science fiction books and then becoming real in…
- Why I Hate Company Politics (2013-10-09) - I hate company politics. I hate when people walk around talking low between each other regarding who is doing what, and that A is plotting…
- DevOpsDays TLV 2013 Reading List (2013-10-06) - A list of all the books mentioned in the DevOpsDays TLV 2013 presentations and tweeter feed. There are some duplicates because some books were mentioned…
- From Compiled Procedural Strongly Typed to Interpreted Weakly Semi-Functional (Part 1) (2013-10-04) - The first language in which I programmed real systems was Ada (Ada83 to be exact). Ada was developed by the US DoD and was originally…
- How Technology is Making Me Lazy (2013-10-03) - A couple of months they installed new electronically activated faucets at work Nothing special happened at once… but after a couple of weeks I started…
- One IDE to Rule Them All (2013-10-01) - Well, not really an IDE, but a web application in which you can write code in any language, compile it and execute it. I’m talking…
- Book Review – A Game of Thrones (Book one of A Song of Ice and Fire) (2013-09-15) - I heard so much about Game of Thrones the last couple of months that I could not stop myself from seeing the series, and WOW!…
- Book Review – Thief of Time & Feet of Clay (2013-09-12) - I read these two books during my last vacations. While I enjoyed them a lot (as usual for most Pratchett books), they are not very…
- Bad UX – On Purpose (2013-09-11) - Today LinkedIn asked me if I wanted to add my GMail contacts as connections. Why not… This is the screen I got: Ok, but I…
- The Return of the Mailing List (2013-08-22) - Today I was browsing the web as usual, when something strange happened – a site wanted me to subscribe to their weekly email. I dismissed…
- WordPress 3.6 Upgrade Breaking Visual Editor – Solved (2013-08-20) - Today I upgraded WordPress to 3.6. As usual, the upgrade was fast and without any problems… except that the Visual Editor stopped working :-(. From…
- I Want to be a Superhero (2013-07-29) - I want to be a superhero. Two things I did this week convinced me of this. First, I saw Iron Man. Great movie. I also…
- Life and Death. We are in the Middle (2013-07-22) - Two weeks (or is it three already?) my uncle died. Seems that cancer had been eating him for the last couple of years and in…
- Learning to Stop. And Start Again (2013-06-19) - Three weeks ago I started coursera’s “Introduction to Systematic Program Design” course. The name seems compelling – someone has found a way to develop software…
- Getting Back on Track – Eclipse Tools to Create Context (2013-06-16) - It has been a while since the last time I did some coding in my OPP project, and today I am returning. One thing that…
- Is Culture Everything? Beware of the Survivor Bias (2013-06-04) - Survivor bias is defined (by wikipedia) as “the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that survived some process and inadvertently overlooking those that didn’t…
- Book Review – I Am A Strange Loop (2013-05-26) - I have mentioned this book (or it’s author) several times in previous posts, so I was surprise to find out yesterday that I never sat…
- The Importance of the IDE in Software Development (2013-05-22) - I have written a couple of times about programming language and how they are only part in the large toolbox (or arsenal) used in software…
- Fixing Twitter Problems in Azure WordPress Hosting (2013-05-19) - There is a problem with the certificates that used on the Azure hosted sites (I’m not exactly sure what this means) which causes some problems…
- Book Review – The Wee Free Men (2013-05-19) - Another literary masterpiece by my loved author Terry Pratchett, the Wee Free Men is a mixture of the usual Pratchett fantasy with some pretty weird…
- How Twitter Flattens the World (2013-05-06) - I love Tweeter. I was once a Tweeter skeptic – what can one say in only 140 characters? I thought of it as another example…
- Assimilation has been Achieved – Vainolo.com is Now Hosted @ Azure (2013-05-01) - I was never a person to use Microsoft technologies as a platform for development – I am pretty comfortable with Java, Linux (for Dev, not…
- Book Review – The God Delusion (2013-04-29) - Ok. First of all I have to disclose that I am a kind of religious person (Jewish), so if you think this makes me incapable…
- Book Review – The Science of Discworld (2013-04-24) - After reading “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins (a book I had to make myself finish although I hated it), I needed some light reading…
- Moooooving, Once Again (2013-04-24) - After finding that the performance of my blog is disastrous, I decided to move my blog to a new provider. I am in the middle…
- Last Week They Sent Me Flowers… (2013-04-13) - After 2 years of being full-time in the academia, I understand that academic life is not for me. It is full of very interesting things,…
- Eclipse Draw2D Layouts Reference Card (2013-03-21) - FlowLayout (source) Lays out the children a row or a column, wrapping the row/column when no more space is available. GridLayout (source) Lays out the…
- Another WAT Moment, Python Style (2013-03-21) - You have probably seen the famous WAT video from Destroy All Software. If you haven’t seen the video, it is a MUST. As part of…
- Improving the Performance of my Blog (2013-03-12) - Yesterday I checked the Google Analytics for my site and saw that the average page load time is approaching 8 seconds! that is way too…
- Push, Baby, Push! (to Github) (2013-03-11) - I did it! I did it! I managed to destroy one of my Git repositories. Don’t ask me how. I was working just like every…
- The Builder Design Pattern – Sequence Diagram (2013-03-11) - The Builder design pattern is useful in two cases: When you want to create a complex object and having one constructor with millions of parameters…
- Creating and Using an Eclipse Update Site using Maven, Tycho and Github (2013-03-06) - After deciding that it was about time to learn maven, I managed to convert all of my projects to maven, using m2e and tycho. Everything…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 25: “Smart” Multi-line Text Figure (2013-03-05) - Previous tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 24: Showing Feedback to the User One of the problems with visual programming languages is layout…
- Achieved 3K Reputation on SO! (2013-02-28) - Check out my profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/817399/vainolo
- Programmers are Problem Solvers (2013-02-19) - This post was in my “drafts” for some time, and yesterday after the “final class” panel of the Reversim 2013 summit, I decided it was…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 24: Showing Feedback to the User (2013-02-17) - Previous tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 23: Drag & Drop from the Palette Giving feedback to the user is very important in…
- GEF Edit Policy Reference Card (2013-02-17) - I have a bad memory. No matter what happens I forget things. To cope with this, I try to write down everything I learn for…
- Book Review – The Appeal, by John Grisham (2013-02-17) - I usually like books by John Grisham. They are easy to read, have a good plot, the characters are neither too complex nor simple. Just fun reading to…
- Temporary Solutions Usually Become Permanent (2013-02-11) - There’s a saying that temporary solutions usually become permanent. And there is no better place validate this than version control systems. I noticed this comment…
- Starting an Eclipse Plug-In Project From Scratch – The Tycho and Travis CI Way (2013-02-06) - Eclipse Tycho is a Maven plugin for building eclipse components. I’m not such a fan of Maven because it feels too much like black magic,…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 23: Drag & Drop from the Palette (2013-02-06) - Previous tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 22: Enabling Select-All Action in a GEF Editor Doing D&D from the palette never seemed to me…
- Bridge Design Pattern – Sequence Diagram (2013-02-03) - The Bridge Design Pattern is a structural design pattern used to completely decouple an abstraction from it implementation, so that both of them can change…
- From LaTeX to Word and Back (2013-01-29) - I started using during my undergraduate studies (late 90s). In those days, MS Word had a bad tendency of dying suddenly and taking with it…
- JJTV Presentation – Creating Graphical Editors with GEF (2013-01-21) - Last week I gave a short presentation in JJTV meetup on how to create graphical editors with Eclipse and GEF. This is a very short and…
- Object Pool Design Pattern – Sequence Diagram (2013-01-20) - An Object pool is used when object allocation is expensive, either in time or memory, and you know there is a limited number of instances…
- Adapter Design Pattern – Sequence Diagram (2013-01-17) - The Adapter (or Wrapper) design pattern is used when you want to adapt a class to an interface that it can implement. One example where…
- Being nice costs nothing, and you never now when it will pay off (2013-01-15) - Last week I interviews for a company where I REALLY want to work. This was the second and final round of interviews (after having passed…
- Book Review – Snuff (2012-12-27) - If you have read any of my previous book reviews, you know I am a big fan of Terry Pratchett. Sadly, Snuff was not good.…
- Thoughs on software engineering research (2012-12-12) - The distance between what they teach us at the university and what happens in the real world is sometimes very large. And I can say…
- It’s the end of the mouse as we know it, and I feel fine… (2012-12-02) - My wife bought me this beautiful toy for my birthday (and this was very hard for her, for reasons that I cannot post here): For…
- Compiling with Black Magic (2012-11-26) - Today I decided to stop being a bad software craftsman (for the $(n^n)^th$ time), starting with the simple task of getting my project to compile…
- The Inefficient Concert! – Some Thought on Project Effectiveness (2012-11-25) - I received this mail from my father yesterday and it rang a bell in my head concerning how software teams are managed. I though I…
- If mice could program: Some thoughts on software engineering research (2012-11-22) - One topic that interests me a lot is software development. I also do research on this topic (in my PhD), but my interest is not…
- The Android API Tells You If The User Is a Goat (2012-11-20) - This one made me laugh pretty hard 🙂 It still seems to be in beta, since the implementation always returns false. But I trust that…
- Reading Strange Product Information – Jumex Juice (2012-11-04) - Jumex is a company that produces really tasty juices, which are now being imported to Israel. Their taste is incredible (although probably they have…
- Codeacademy – Bugs in Online Teaching Platforms (2012-10-21) - Last week I decided to learn Python. My office-mate keeps on telling me how cool it is, how he can write impressive code in no…
- Economic Interfaces and Programmer Skill (2012-10-17) - “The Pragmatic Architect” is a column written by Frank Buschmann in the IEEE Software journal. It provides nice insights (although many of them with no…
- Article Review – New Programming Language Makes Social Coding Easier – Technology Review (2012-10-15) - I got this article a while ago as part of my regular subscriptions. Yet another computer language developed by another professor, because: “I had to…
- More Problems in Automobile Software (2012-10-12) - As software becomes more ubiquitous (I always wanted to use that word) software problems are also becoming ubiquitous. Related to my earlier post quoting an…
- No Brains – No Problems (2012-10-10) - I was talking today with a friend of mine of how many things we think about all day, and we arrived at the conclusion that…
- Interesting Articles from CACM (2012-10-10) - I’m doing some house cleaning on my read articles and found these interesting ones, that while are not directly relevant for my research (i.e. I…
- Predicting Software Development Time – New Insights (2012-10-02) - One of the hardest tasks in software development is planning how much time it will take you to develop a feature. It is even harder…
- Book Review – Outliers, The Story of Success (2012-09-23) - After having read Gladwell‘s “Blink” and “The Tipping Point“, I was expecting a lot from “Outliers: The Story of Success“. And while it is a good…
- Improving My Writing Using Semicolons (2012-09-13) - Last semester I took a (compulsory) course on English writing. The course was actually both interesting and fun; It helped me improve my writing a…
- Dijkstra – What a Humble Man (2012-09-03) - I was reading today Dijkstra‘s “Notes on Structured Programming”, and was very impressed to see the following written there: As a slow-witted human being I…
- Daddy, What Comes Before Strawberries? – or Why Computers are Dumb (2012-09-02) - Yesterday we sat at the table and as usual, we had to send the kids to the bathroom to wash their hands (again). My little…
- What Framework is Better? (2012-08-30) - My subscription to I Programmer provides some nice reading material. I don’t read all of the content, but have found that the articles they have are…
- Extending and Modifying Eclipse – The Basics (2012-08-29) - This post is written for a team of students with which I am developing a meta-modeling platform based on the OPM modeling methodology and the…
- Stop Being Religious About Software Development (2012-08-28) - More material read during my vacations. A parody on how we software developers (and the managers behind us) act not-very-rationally, being more religious than pragmatic,…
- Vacation’s Over – Long Live School! (2012-08-27) - I love my children, I really do. But every year after the summer vacation ends and school year begins, I need a vacation from my…
- Press Release: “UCSB Researchers Demonstrate That 15=3×5 About Half of the Time “ (2012-08-24) - You are probably asking yourself what the hell is going on here. Obviously 15=3×5, and not half the time, but all the time. But in the…
- “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” and Other Writings by Eric S. Raymond (2012-08-23) - There should be a guide somewhere which lists all the material that a software craftsman should read. And the works by Eric S. Raymond should…
- Welcome Korean Readers (2012-08-21) - This week I started receiving a relatively large number of hits from http://cafe.naver.com/eclipseplugin (relative to the number of hits I get every day). I couldn’t help…
- Upgrading to Eclipse 4.2 (Juno) (2012-08-19) - I have delayed this upgrade for some time for no specific reason, and decided to give it a try, and was encouraged to do it…
- A Story of Passion and Programming (2012-08-16) - Yesterday I stumbled upon “The Graphing Calculator Story” (also in video). It is not a new story – at least goes back to 2006, but…
- This Is Scary – A Story of How Hackers Stole A Person’s Digital Identity (2012-08-14) - Imagine what would happen if someone stole your facebook account? your email? your whole digital identity? This is what happened to Mat Honan, a writer…
- More on Web Fonts (2012-08-12) - My readings on usability took me to the site of Jakob Nielsen, who seems to be one of the most knowledgeable persons in usability out there (from what…
- The Haxe Programming Language (2012-08-09) - Yesterday I stumbled upon a new programming language called Haxe. The most prominent feature this language has over many other languages is that it is…
- Can’t Keep Up With Technology (2012-08-07) - Although I am not of the “latest technology” camp (I programmed in Ada83 for many years and even liked it), I still try to understand…
- Do You Know How To Calculate The Real Discount? (2012-08-06) - The Free Money Finance blog posted and interesting piece on how we don’t know how to calculate the best discount when offered with a choice…
- Typical Errors of a Financial Advisor – Also for the Individual Investor (2012-08-05) - The Big Picture blog posted a list of typical errors that a financial advisor should avoid. This list is also VERY relevant to individual investors. I specially…
- Grading Exams (2012-08-01) - This semester I was TA of the “Analysis and Design of Information Systems” course taught at the Technion‘s Industrial Engineering faculty. As I write these lines…
- CACM Viewpoint – The Lack of Evolution of Software Engineering (2012-07-30) - Interesting article by Marvin V. Zelkowitz in Communications of the ACM complaining on how little software engineering has evolved since its start. Short but with a lot of…
- The Visitor Design Pattern with Sequence Diagrams (2012-07-30) - The visitor design pattern a pattern to support separation of concerns in programming languages that support method overloading (OO languages, but also functional languages can…
- Two Great Posts on Using Graphics in GUIs (2012-07-29) - One very important part of developing a visual programming language (VPL) is deciding how the language should look. So lately I have read some material…
- Filtering Collections using Guava – Performance Analysis (2012-07-29) - As I showed in my previous post, Guava Predicates let you write code that is clearer (at leas IMHO). As explained in the Guava site,…
- Guava Predicates – Programming with Intention (2012-07-25) - Last month I discovered Google’s Guava library, a really useful set of utility classes for everyday java programming. One of these classes, better yet, one…
- Learning the Language is Only the Beginning (2012-07-23) - Everyone can learn to code. Seriously, there are a number of web pages (check this one for example) on which you can start learning right…
- TDD and the Creative Process (2012-07-19) - As described in my previous post, I decided to try TDD to get out of my “writer’s block“. Good thing is, that I did get…
- 1K Reputation Achieved on Stack Overflow (2012-07-05) - Wheehe! Check out my profile!
- What Happened to Web Browsers? or Web Browsers – the New Operating System (2012-07-05) - A long time ago I stopped using IE and became a Firefox user. By a long time, I mean a couple of years. After a…
- Going TDD – Initial Thoughts (2012-07-02) - After a few month developing my OPM Editor, it is now in a fairly usable stage. At least enough to start working on the OPM…
- Book Review – Rendezvous with Rama (2012-07-01) - Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke is considered on of the classic, must-read books of science fiction. The book has a good plot which…
- Book Review – Hyperion (2012-06-24) - Hyperion, by Dan Simmons, is a great Science-Fiction that is also loaded with Fantasy. It is a novel told using many short stories (much like…
- Book Review – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (2012-06-17) - After reading Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, I have definitively become a Robert Heinlein fan. This last…
- Book Review – I, Robot (2012-06-17) - “I, Robot“, by Isaac Asimov, is on the first science fiction books I read, and in my memory it was a very good book. How…
- Meetings are a Waste of time (2012-06-06) - Well, not all meetings, but most of them. And almost all meetings are too long, principally because it is hard to schedule meetings that are…
- Installing Eclipse for EMF/GEF Development (2012-05-31) - The eclipse development platform is one of the easiest programs to install. You just download it from the eclipse web site packed in a zip…
- The Story of Send – How Your Gmail Travels the World (2012-05-24) - Very nice interactive presentation of how Google handles your email. I really enjoyed it: http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 22: Enabling Select-All Action in a GEF Editor (2012-05-17) - Previous tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 21: Adding Keyboard Shortcuts Today I was working on a model using my OPM GEF editor, and…
- Font Change (2012-05-14) - After previewing some of my posts I saw that the font I chose for my site (Tahoma) is very hard to read. So after reading…
- Extracting the Contents of a Zip File in Java (2012-05-08) - The following short program shows how to extract all of the files that are inside a Zip file. Java provides us with a number of…
- Java Examples Repository – First Example: Copy a File from a URL to a Local Path (2012-05-07) - There are programming tasks that I don’t do a lot, and they are forgotten in the depths of my brain, never to be seen again.…
- Book Review – Childhood’s End (2012-05-03) - A classic sci-fi book by Arthur C. Clark, Childhood’s End is a very enjoyable book. The end of the human race has come, but in…
- Factory Method Design Pattern – Sequence Diagrams (2012-05-02) - As defined by the GOF, the Factory Method Design Pattern is used to “Define an interface for creating an object, but let the classes which implement…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 21: Adding Keyboard Shortcuts (2012-04-30) - Previous Tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 20: Creating a Context Menu and Adding Custom Actions Keyboard shortcuts are very useful for activating actions.…
- Book Review – Neuromancer (2012-04-30) - Neuromancer, by William Gibson, is an EXCELLENT book. I always though that the ideas behind the movie “The Matrix” were a complete creation of their creators. How…
- Singleton Design Pattern – Sequence Diagram (2012-04-29) - Last semester I taught an undergraduate course on system analysis and design using graphical modeling (UML and OPM). I decided that one important subject the…
- What is Wrong with being a Software Engineer? (2012-04-11) - We nave rock stars, super stars, luminaries, evangelists, trolls, hackers, craftsmen, … what else? Why can’s software engineers be software engineers? Do you know of…
- Gav Yam (Bayside): A Stock to Sleep Well at Night (2012-04-08) - Disclaimer: I am not a certified investor of any kind. These are my personal views and are solely for informational purposes. The numbers I have…
- Book Review – Starship Troopers (2012-03-28) - Just finished reading Starship Troopers, another great book by Robert A. Heinlein. I saw the movie a couple of years ago, but the book is…
- Code Generation is Not Agile (2012-03-26) - I am a great advocate of software modeling, which provides a higher abstraction of software artifacts that allow us easier work with them. For my…
- Book Review – Fahrenheit 451 (2012-03-18) - Fahrenheit is a strange book. Not so much science fiction, more of social fiction. It tells of social fiction, of a world were “happiness” (fun)…
- Book Review – The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Trilogy (2012-03-17) - This is the second time I have read the full Hitchhiker’s trilogy (in four parts), and the third time reading the first book of the trilogy –…
- Book Review – Stranger In A Strange Land (2012-03-08) - The classic science fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land started pretty good, moved partly into a cheap soft porn mini-novel of the 70’s and…
- How To Create A Private Git Repository Server (2012-03-01) - A year ago I created a git repository in my linux box at home using a tool called gitosis, but since then I had to…
- More Proof that Programmers are Nuts (2012-02-23) - Have you heard of the “Facial Hair Theory“? Until yesterday I was unaware of it. But now I understand why I have to grow a…
- CoffeScript – Syntactic Sugar for JavaScript (2012-02-21) - I attended today a meetup about CoffeeScript. I am not a javascript programmer (and never was), but CoffeeScript seemed to me from the presentation as…
- How To Manage Copyright Licenses In Eclipse (2012-02-20) - It comes a time in every project’s life when the owner decides that he needs to copyright his work. This time came to me a…
- How To Reset Your Windows Password (If You Can Log-in As An Admin) (2012-02-18) - The laptop I use has a fingerprint reader so I rarely (if ever) write a password to enter my windows account. Today the fingerprint reader…
- Book Review – Going Postal (2012-02-18) - As I mentioned in a previous post, I should have read Going Postal book before reading Making Money, because it gives some interesting background on…
- Book Review – Small Gods (2012-02-08) - It probably won’t surprise you that this is another Terry Pratchett book. I have read a lot of them lately to fill in the blanks…
- Book Review – Moving Pictures (2012-01-31) - After a few months of reading books in their natural form (you know… paper. Remember?), my pad (an Archos 10.1, pretty cheap stuff, not fancy…
- Book Review – Rework (2012-01-26) - A friend of mine gave me Rework two weeks ago after a talk we had over my post on how finishing things helps you finish…
- Linux is Evolving… Into Windows!!! (2012-01-20) - Yesterday I upgraded my Linux box from Ubuntu 10.04 (or something like that) to 11.10, and my the build-in vncserver (vino) stopped working. My client…
- Chrome Reopen Last Closed Tab Shortcut – Ctrl+Shift+T (2012-01-16) - Ever happens to you that you close a tab in your browser by mistake and then you have to go to the history to search…
- UML Superstructure 2.4.1, Page 327: “An activity execution represents an execution of the activity” (2012-01-15) - I thought an activity execution meant cutting the activity with an axe in front of the whole townspeople and then singing “long live the king”……
- GEF Internals Part 2 – Mouse Interaction and the Creation Tool (2012-01-08) - After investigating the complex interactions that occur with the selection tool in my previous post, we will now focus on a simpler case, the creation…
- Book Review – Making Money (2012-01-06) - Taking a rest from all the serious reading I have done in the last couple of weeks, I decided to go and have some fun reading…
- GEF Internals Part 1 – Mouse Interaction and the Selection Tool (2012-01-01) - There are some explanations on the net on how GEF works (see here ) but I have not found a good description on how GEF…
- Renamed VPL Page (2011-12-31) - Last week I decided to add a page to my blog containing all of the papers I have read during my PhD studies, with comments…
- Do You Like Wikipedia? (2011-12-29) - I am personally a big fan of Wikipedia, and since last year I am also a proud donor to the Wikipedia foundation. I think the…
- Visual Languages, Visual Notations and Visual Programming Languages in Software Development (2011-12-25) - This is my current field of interest and I am reading many of papers (some good and some bad) on the subject. I searched the…
- The Fine Thread between Being a Good Researcher and a Good Programmer (2011-12-22) - My “day job” is studying a PhD in Information Systems Management, where I am investigating the executable aspects of OPM (the Object-Process Methodology). While doing…
- Book Review – The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2011-12-14) - I am a regular reader of the weekly economic newsletter published by John Mauldin, both Thoughts from the Frontline and Outside the Box, which are…
- Book Review – The Passionate Programmer (2011-12-06) - The Pragmatic Programmer was a book that had a great impact on my view of programming. I read it after having programmed for 6 years,…
- Book Review – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy (2011-12-05) - I am driving to the university almost every day, a trip that takes about 35 minutes (in public transportation it would take about one hour…
- Estimating the Unknown – Series of Posts by Johanna Rothman (2011-11-30) - Johanna Rothman‘s blog is one of the RSS subscriptions that I constantly read in my coffee breaks (she and some hundred more RSS… I simply…
- Welcome to JAR Hell (2011-11-21) - Object orientation has given us great things, but lately I have felt that we are having great problems managing the highly coupled components that OO…
- Book Review – The Book Thief (2011-11-20) - I started reading the book thief just as I started reading the black book. It was the next book in the shelf on the side…
- The More You Do The More You Can Do (2011-11-16) - My mom says that the more things you do the more things you are able to do. She always tells when she comes to see…
- Is UML for Real? (2011-11-14) - I’m teaching this semester a course on software analysis and design, with special emphasis on software system modeling. Obviously this means that I am teaching…
- One Week in Bogota, Colombia (2011-11-04) - I had to travel unexpectedly to my home country Colombia because my father had to undergo an unexpected surgery (a Carotid Endarterectomy). It has been…
- Book Review – The Little Book that Beats the Market (2011-10-28) - The Little Book That Beats the Market, by Joel Greenblatt is a really short book for investors searching for a magic formula for stock exchange…
- Book Review – The Little Book that Beats the Market (2011-10-28) - The Little Book That Beats the Market, by Joel Greenblatt is a really short book for investors searching for a magic formula for stock exchange…
- Book Review – The Black Book (2011-10-23) - From the list of books that I have already read, you can deduce pretty fast that I am not the type who reads Nobel-prize authors.…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 20: Creating a Context Menu and Adding Custom Actions (2011-09-19) - Previous Tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 19: Displaying Tooltips. Wow. It’s been almost two weeks since my last post on this subject.…
- Choosing an Open-Source License (2011-09-18) - Since the code-base that I’m sharing on the internet is getting larger, and the product being created is starting to work, it is not time…
- Really Cool (and Cute) Video (2011-09-10) - How to make a baby. I loved it.
- Book Review – Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman (2011-09-07) - Just finished reading this great book about how to become a great software craftsman. While the comparison may be strange, this book is fairly similar…
- Book Review – Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (2011-09-04) - First, if you are a manager of a software team PLEASE go and read this book (available from amazon.com ) and read it. But only…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 19: Displaying Tooltips (2011-09-04) - Previous Tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 18: Snapping to Grid and to Geometry. Well, I was wrong by saying that there would…
- Getting Rid of the Ugly “Resource is out of sync” Message (2011-09-04) - While working with my OPM GEF editor, I sometimes saw the current exception in the eclipse console: While this was bothersome, it didn’t affect the…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 18: Snapping to Grid and to Geometry (2011-09-04) - Previous Tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 17: How to Define Container Edit Parts. As a finishing touch to our editor, we will…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 17: How to Define Container Edit Parts (2011-09-01) - Previous Tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 16: Displaying EMF Properties in a GEF Editor. The Object Process Methodology‘s modeling language allows (and…
- Book Review – The Monk Who Sold His Ferrary (2011-09-01) - Since I am an avid book reader and love what books can teach us, I’m will start writing short book reviews of the books I…
- Google’s Android App Inventor – The Death of Another Visual Programming Language? (2011-08-31) - As part of the closing of Google Labs, the Android App Inventor visual programming engine for the Android platform will be shut down and the…
- Is Software Development an Art? (2011-08-25) - I am a passionate software developer, making it both my job and my hobby. I sometimes wonder what makes good software good, and how it…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 16: Displaying EMF Properties in a GEF Editor (2011-08-22) - Previous Tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 15: Adding Structural Links. The eclipse workbench provides us with ready-made views, which can be populated…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 15: Adding Structural Links (2011-08-16) - Previous Tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 14: Refactoring, Refactoring and More Refactoring. In the last tutorial we learned how to refactor classes…
- Don’t Let Your Team Develop Things Which They Can’t Understand (2011-08-14) - Just finished reading a nice article by Fank Buschmann, one of the authors of Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture called Unusable Software is Useless, Part 2. The…
- An Exact Interface (2011-08-11) - A lot of thought is invested in creating Object Oriented programs, specially when creating their models. We want to have a simple yet powerful model,…
- Your Co-Workers Can Kill You (2011-08-11) - While you may think having bad co-workers is bad, take a look at this article here: Are Your Co-Workers Killing You?. This is another example…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 14: Refactoring, Refactoring and More Refactoring (2011-08-07) - Previous Tutorial: Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 13: Adding Procedural Links In the last tutorial we modified the model adding both procedural links…
- The Internet Is Addictive (2011-08-04) - Something that us geeks found out a long time ago is now mainstream. http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/technology-is-the-new-smoking/ Will electronic be forbidden in public places just like smoking? Well,…
- Creating an OPM GEF Editor – Part 13: Adding Procedural Links (2011-08-03) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF Editor – Part 12: Enable Save Action on the Editor In this tutorial we’ll be adding more link kinds to…
- Creating a GEF Editor – Part 12: Enable Save Action on the Editor (2011-08-01) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF Editor – Part 11: Creating Link Bendpoints So, after managing to break my laptop’s screen last week I’ve been pretty…
- Sob! I Broke My Laptop :-(. Help Me Continue Coding (2011-07-29) - After I managed to break the screen of my android phone 6 months ago, and my NAS broke down a month ago, I opened my…
- Creating a GEF Editor – Part 11: Creating Link Bendpoints (2011-07-24) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF Editor – Part 10: Deleting Connections and Fixing of Thing Delete Command When I used tools to automatically create UML…
- Creating a GEF Editor – Part 10: Deleting Connections and Fixing of Thing Delete Command (2011-07-22) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF Editor – Part 9: Connections This tutorial continues the development of our OPM editor, adding a rarely useful functionality: deleting…
- Check Your Style (2011-07-20) - I decided that it is about time to stop coding like a monkey and start doing things right from the start (and I should also…
- Extending org.eclipse.draw2d.Shape – A Short Experience (2011-07-20) - I am creating a GEF editor for the Object Process Methodology modeling language. The modeling language uses an isosceles triangle, resembling the one that is…
- Repost – Who is an Expert? (2011-07-19) - Great post by Hayim Makabee. Completely agree with him. Experts are not people that know all the rules, they must also know when they don’t…
- Creating a GEF Editor – Part 9: Connections (2011-07-13) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF Editor – Part 8: Delete, Undo and Redo Having a functional editor on which we can add figures is already…
- Creating a GEF Editor – Part 8: Delete, Undo and Redo (2011-07-10) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF Editor – Part 7: Moving Elements and Direct Editing In this tutorial we are going to add functionality to delete…
- Creating a GEF Editor – Part 7: Moving Elements and Direct Editing (2011-07-07) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF Editor – Part 6: Model Refactoring and Editing Diagram Entities In today’s tutorial we will continue adding more editing capabilities…
- What a Week This Has Been (2011-07-07) - I had two very traumatic experiences this week… but survived :-). Saturday night my NAS decided to break down. A Segate GoFlex Home 2TB drive…
- Creating a GEF Editor – Part 6: Model Refactoring and Editing Diagram Entities (2011-07-06) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF Editor – Part 5: Loading the Model from an EMF File We finished the last tutorial with a working “editor”…
- Repost – Software – more than code: Software in pictures (2011-06-30) - A picture is worth a thousand words. Use these to explain to your boss how bad code looks: Software – more than code: Software in…
- Seem that Tshuva is Going for a Haircut (2011-06-22) - It seems that Tshuva is going for a haircut or at least postponement of debt payment, as has been published in the Israeli financial media.…
- Creating a GEF Editor – Part 5: Loading the Model from an EMF File (2011-06-22) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF Editor – Part 4: Showing the Model on the Editor Hi everyone. In this tutorial we will learn how to…
- Creating a GEF Editor – Part 4: Showing the Model on the Editor (2011-06-21) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF Editor – Part 3: Basic GEF Editor The last episode of “Creating a GEF Editor” ended with the creation of…
- Creating a GEF Editor – Part 3: Basic GEF Editor (2011-06-17) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF Editor – Part 2: EMF Code Generation In the previous tutorial we finished the definition of the model and generated…
- Creating a GEF Editor – Part 2: EMF Code Generation (2011-06-14) - Previous Tutorial: Creating a GEF editor – Part 1: Defining the Model The eclipse EMF framework provides tools for the creation of structured data models…
- Creating a GEF editor – Part 1: Defining the Model (2011-06-12) - I am creating a new editor for the Object-Process Methodology Modeling language. Since at the same time I am learning both EMF and GEF, it…
- A Ad Add Adds! (2011-06-10) - I am seeking some revenue from my site, at least to pay the hosting… the stock market has not been nice lately:-). You are invited…
- Transfer Finished (2011-06-09) - All systems going back to normal status.
- Moooooving! (2011-06-01) - I’m moving my site to a new hosting, much cheaper than the one I’m using today, so there will be some downtime. The blog’s address…
- The Seven Laws of Investing (2011-05-25) - Just finished reading James Montier‘s article on this subject (available for free at the GMO site). A definite recommendation for any serious investor. Enjoy it.
- The Quest for the Perfect Java Graph Framework (2011-05-24) - After testing JGraphX for a couple of days and reading some of its code, I have come once again to the conclusion that while it…
- New Blog Pages (2011-05-22) - Sometimes information must be static (as in blog pages), therefore I decided to add two new pages to my blog: Useful Links and Reading List.…
- I used to eat beans, but the moon now shines more bright (2011-05-21) - You are probably wondering what the hell I’m talking about. Well, I’ve switched to eclipse after using netbeans for the last 5-6 years. I liked…
- JGraph Styles (2011-05-13) - I build a reference program to test some of the styles that JGraphX provides. This is the result of the program: The full source code…
- Is UML out of fashion? (2011-05-02) - Maybe it is, if Martin Fowler says so in his bliki. In his own words: “UML has got rather out of fashion it seems.” Can’t…
- I’ve been a bit busy lately (2011-04-26) - While I would have liked to advance some more in my JGraph learning, life has been keeping me busy. But life is good. Welcome to…
- Another day with JGraph – Styles and Constrained Children (2011-04-11) - Today I spent some more time playing with JGraph. The application I am creating requires three basic shapes: a rectangle, an ellipse and a roundtangle…
- JGraph – Another Java Graph Framework (2011-04-10) - After some playing with JUNG (see examples 1, 2 and 3), I feel that it will be hard to use it for the application that…
- Sipdroid and SMSDiscount – VoIP on the Android without Pbxes (2011-03-04) - Configuring sipdroid to use SMSDiscount is a lot easier than most tutorials on the internet show. There is no need to create any pbxes.org account…
- Learning JUNG (3) – Changing the vertex’s shape (2011-02-15) - To change the way a vertex is rendered, you provide an implementation of the Renderer.Vertex interface. The interface has one function – paintVertex – where…
- Learning JUNG (2) – Adding labels (2011-02-14) - That was very easy. First I changed the VisualizationImageServer for a VisualizationViewer. The name of the variable was also changed from vs to vv. The…
- Learning JUNG – Java Universal Network/Graph Framework (2011-02-14) - I’m searching for “user-friendly” java graph frameworks for an application that I’m developing for my studies. I stumbled upon JUNG. After 15 minutes searching and…
- Opportunities Ahead (2011-01-30) - The latest developments in Egypt are starting to create new opportunities that lately have been hard to find in the Israeli market. Updating on my…
- Delek Nadlan Bonds – Speculate on Tshuva’s Image (2011-01-25) - Delek Nadlan‘s short duration bonds are selling at a nice discount lately: Delek Nadlan B4 (DLKR.B4): yielding 19.02% (At least by themarker and globes, although…
- Economists vs Astrologists (2011-01-17) - I am an avid reader of John Mauldin (one of his 1.5 million closest friends, as he puts it).His weekly mail is a must-subscribe for…
- Big Changes (2011-01-10) - This is my second week of my new life. On the 30/12/2010 I stopped working and started full-time Ph.D. studies. Changes are difficult, and only…
- How I calculate P/E and dividend returns (2010-08-15) - In some posts and in the analysis worksheets I calculate these values, but I have found that their values differ from the ones posted in…
- Relax and Enjoy (2010-08-13) - For our last anniversary I surprised my wife with a nice set of red roses. She decided so she had to give me something in…
- My Latest Analysis (2010-08-09) - I just finished the complete analysis of one nice israeli company, Chilan Tech (חילן טק) and finished the initial analysis of the israeli communication company bezeq…
- The Price of Stocks (2010-06-16) - Today I’m going to write about a complicated topic that confuses many new investors (like me), which is the price of a stock (that is,…
- Nexus one – still working after two days (2010-06-08) - I am happy to tell you that after two full days playing with my new nexus one smartphone it is still working! Not hard when…
- Android (2010-06-06) - This post is sent from my new nexus one android. Cool :-).
- My First Investing Post (2010-05-16) - One of the things that I do in my spare time (competing with caring for 3 children, loving my wife, programming, reading and knitting) is…
- The Perfect Asado (2010-05-10) - I am in Argentina, known as the “Meat Country”. And guess what I had for lunch yesterday? ASADO!. Strangely enough, the asado has no steaks…
- But really, can I? (2010-04-27) - Every time I make a decision this question comes to my head… Can I change this later? The answer is not always easy. If I…
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