There’s a well known saying that goes like this: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things *. This is a post about the first one. Today I experienced...

A year and a half ago I moved my backend service from Heroku to Openshift. The reasons were that it didn’t put services to sleep state in free tier. At that time it just looked it offers more for t...

This post is inspired by uninformative user facing texts in software. Being a software developer, I know that there are situations when we are not aware of how meaningless the text we write can be ...

Yes, it’s good to be informed and know what happens in the world around you. Yes, website news are the fastest, the most easily consumed and allow its audience to have conversation on the subject. ...

It has been four years since I started using Toshl for managing my personal finances. What I liked the most about it is it’s simplicity. While simple, it still lets you categorize your finances as ...

Time is moving fast, it seems like yesterday I got my first Windows phone. It was so exciting to have a bold new platform after getting bored by iOS and Android. More than four years later, Windows...

For some time I wanted to try Xamarin for multi platform mobile app development. Recently I got very basic app idea suggested by a friend and it looked like a perfect excuse to finally try Xamarin....

As you might have read in my first blog post, I built a push notifications server on Google App Engine. It was nearly three years ago and at that point it looked nice to me to build a server in Jav...

One of my recent tasks at work was to port a mobile web app to Windows 10 UWP. The app was built using Apache Cordova, and as Cordova and Microsoft worked together to support Windows 10, this shoul...

Building software can be exhausting. Always trying to improve it by adding features, fixing bugs and maintaining code quality in the meantime. There are a lot of methodologies software developers i...