About 2 years ago I started playing with distributed code and large scale architectures. Recently most of my development time has been under Azure and Heroku. The following are my thoughts on when either Azure or Heroku is better under specific circumstances. What I like about Azure: Python/Ruby/PHP/ETC Lots of built in options to fit [...]
Captchas are the very annoying things where you have to type a set of letters and numbers in order to prove that you are human rather than robot. Why are they necessary? Because so many things have become automated and some companies don’t want to provide service to robots or waste their resources on fake [...]
During the last few months my graduate supervisor and I have been doing a lot of demos to the major canadian telecommunications companies. In the demos we show different devices interacting with each other (which is something people love at demos). One of the things we get asked fairly often is: “How long did it take to build each one [...]
I see a common copy-and-paste trend specially with junior developers. Many of them just copy-and-paste random internet code into their projects. After a while I ask them about their implementation… very few understand what they copy-and-paste and the implications of that implementation! I inquired further and it was clear that many used debug driven development [...]
My name is Dan Merino. I specialize in research and development in web, mobile and IPTV. You can learn more about me at danmerino.com