Stan Ego

How real is the Matrix?

In philosophy the question of perception is quite important. Because if what we see, hear, feel, smell, etc is a fake... many explanations will fail. Scientists frequently speculates using Brain in a vat experiment. Many of us know it as the Matrix. Is it

Web

GET /Web30... 417 Expectation Failed

To be honest, I was disappointed in the Solid project presented by Tim Bernes-Lee. It should inspire the feature of Web, but for me smth like a scent of old books is in the air. Everybody who is familiar with good principles of software

Codesophy

Balancing between row and columnar DBs

Columnar databases have a lot of benefits, especially for OLAP workloads. Rows-based is also still in the game, but mostly applied to OLTP? Is there a well-balanced solution? Probably yes. Last days I was actively writing about aspect-oriented approaches that seems to be such

Codesophy

Aspect-oriented modeling

Many of us have heard about aspect-oriented programming. When some concerns like logging, validations and other aspects are flexibly injected into processes. But what's about design of the application? Aren't there any aspects? I think there are. One of the most frequent examples is

Codesophy

Business objects redesigned

We used to define business objects mostly as classes. But what if they become interfaces while instances will be created automatically from some factory (like IoC container)? Philosophically let's imagine we are talking about some laptop. What is usually important for us? Probably it's

Codesophy

Divide and conquer as a philosophy

In programming we frequently use principle of atomicity, trying to implement things as small as possible. SRP principle in SOLID forces us to make responsibility atomic. Micro-services also reflect this idea. Agile methods use the same approach for changes, instead of one huge "change"

Reusing

LZCode compression

Family of LZ compression algorithms is replacing some string in input stream with its reference (in dictionary, in the input stream itself if there were occurrences of the string before). Let's imagine that there is an intellectual compression algorithm that works like LZ compression,

Codesophy

Philosophy of issue tracking

While working on Codesophy project I am trying to refactor my vocabularies and make them more simple and consistent. Today I have an "issue tracking" tools like JIRA on the table. I understand the a historical nature of this term, but in my opinion

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