I talk and chat to a lot with customers, prospects, or just entrepreneurs and business owners in various online and offline groups. There is one question that keeps being asked over and over; I often reply on-the-spot and I always
Handling Data Breaches, Or: The Art of Fixing and Saying “Sorry”
The frequency in which data leaks and breaches appear makes it easy to forget how severe some of them are. It seems like every 2 days we hear about a new data breach; we’ve got people like Troy Hunt who
Angular 2 Quickstarter / Bootstrap / Boilerplate Projects
Updated 31 January 2017 The need for Angular 2 quickstarters There’s an old dictum (not less than 2-3 years, which makes it really ancient in the software development industry): A good developer is a lazy developer. The idea of project
Autonomous Cars: A Letter to My Future Self
Despite some bad things that happen in our planet (e.g. worldwide terrorism, weapons of mass destruction easily reached by dictators), if there’s something that makes me really positively thrilled about the near future, this thing is autonomous cars. I’m writing
Observations from NDC Sydney 2016
I usually attend quite a few meetups in Melbourne, in the areas of entrepreneurship and software development, but recently all planets aligned perfectly and I was fortunate enough to go to NDC Sydney – my first attendance at an International
Awesome Services Series: CloudFlare
This is the first in a series of posts about awesome web / fullstack developer online services. As you might already have seen, I’m often critical of services and products – I usually find most of them suffering from not
The Problem with Customer Support
We’ve all encountered it at one point or another: poor customer support. And it seems to get worse on a weekly basis. “Poor” has many flavors: Not understanding what you want (well, this is actually the better case; the worse
Increased Bandwidth Consumption and Cost All over the Internet Due to a Chrome 45 Regression
Chrome 45 Regression Bug: MP3 audio seek stopped working It’s been about 10 days since Chrome 45 (45.0.2454.85) was released and I really don’t know how come no one has noticed such a substantial bug, influencing millions of users of
Microsoft Developer Products Version & Release Numbers
Last update: April 16th, 2017 Microsoft’s marketing department often names its products in names that don’t reveal anything about their “real” version numbers. Recently it’s mainly years, like “Visual Studio 2015” but it could be numbers which don’t correspond to
Not OK, Google
UPDATE At about 23:00 (Pacific time, June 23) Google announced that they are removing the hotwording component entirely from Chromium: “it is not open source, it does not belong in the open source browser”. Good news. A few days ago,