Cloud architecture tips you will not regret later
If I had a dollar for every time somebody mentioned the phrase 'social' to me in the last couple of years, my pants would suffer since I tend to carry all my coins in my right pocket. With my soft credit card wallet. I carry my iPhone in my left pocket, where I carry cash... Continue Reading →
A: I told you, I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid. M: I just paid! A: No you didn't. M: I DID! A: No you didn't. M: Look, I don't want to argue about that. A: Well, you didn't pay. M: Aha. If I didn't pay, why are you arguing? I Got you! A:... Continue Reading →
'It can't be helped,' the saddlebum said. 'What's happened is, you've overloaded your analogizing faculty, thereby blowing a fuse. Accordingly, your perceptions have taken up the task of experimental normalization. This state is known as "metaphoric deformation"'. Robert Sheckley, "Mind Swap", 1966. One of the Sci-Fi books that left a deep impression on my young mind was... Continue Reading →
But band leader Johnny Rotten didn't sell out in the way that you're thinking. He didn't start as a rebellious kid and tone it down so he could cash in. No, Rotten did the exact opposite -- his punk rebelliousness was selling out. [...] And he definitely wasn't interested in defining an entire movement. From... Continue Reading →
In India, we don't call it "Indian food'. We just call it "food". Rajesh Koothrappali, "The Big Bang Theory" It was always hard for me to make choices. In the archetypical classification of 'satisficers' and 'maximizers', I definitely fall into the latter camp. I research ad nauseum, read reviews, measure carefully, take everything into account, and... Continue Reading →
My daughter is 14. Like her father, she loves and plays music. As with all the restless teens, sitting through multiple hours of Grammys 2014 was a non-starter. Therefore, she installed me as her push notification service. My role was to sit on the sofa (iPad in hand - I am not crazy to just watch TV for... Continue Reading →
Of course when you're a kid, you can be friends with anybody. [...] You like Cherry Soda? I like Cherry Soda! We'll be best friends! Jerry Seinfeld We learned from Rene Zellweger that sometimes you can have people at "Hello". In case of myself and the project Kraken.js, it had me at "Node.js/express.js/Dust.js/jQuery/Require.js/Bootstrap". OK, not fit for a memorable... Continue Reading →
The post title unintentionally sounds like a movie franchise (e.g. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), but in my defense I DID promise I will return to the topic of pushing events to the browser using Socket.io and Node.js in the post about message queues. The idea was to take the example I wrote about in... Continue Reading →
The title of this post is a paraphrase of the famous Marshal McLuhan's 'The medium is the message', meant to imply that the medium that carries the message also embeds itself into the message, creating a symbiotic relationship with it. Of course, as I write this, I half-expect a ghost of Mr. Marshal to appear... Continue Reading →
Last week I hoped to blog-shame Guillermo Rauch into releasing Socket.io v1.0 for my own convenience. Alas, it didn't work (gotta work on my SEO), but I see a lot of traffic from @rauchg on the corresponding GitHub project, so my spirits are high. Meanwhile, I realized that for my own dabbling, v0.91 is pretty... Continue Reading →
Dejan Glozic 