Please repost / reblog / spread the word, should you have been victim of a similar act of plagiarism or copyright infringement! With my blog getting increasingly popular, I'm more and more facing the problem of plagiarism. Plagiarism is bad for a variety of reasons: It hurts the original author's SEO, as content starts getting … Continue reading Plagiarism is Copyright Infringement AND Poor Form
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Conference Gem: The MEDIT Symposium
The MEDIT Symposium is one of this year's international conference gems that you shouldn't miss, if you're into Open Source! It features three very interesting tracks Cloud Computing Open Source Mobile Development I'm delighted to line up my own talk about jOOQ with Apache committers (Cassandra, Cordova, Isis), Groovy Language Toolkit developers, researchers and book authors. … Continue reading Conference Gem: The MEDIT Symposium
On Terms and Conditions
Now here are some Terms and Conditions that I can most certainly agree with:
The Announcer Badge on Stack Overflow
It just struck me like lightning. I just realised one (surely not the only) very important reason, why Stack Overflow always winds up at least once in the top 10 search results on Google for virtually any programming-related search. The Announcer Badge. When you share a link to a Stack Overflow question or answer using the … Continue reading The Announcer Badge on Stack Overflow
How to Make Your Advertisement Look Like Spam
I had experienced ZeroTurnaround's marketing and sales before, and I thought it was a bit agressive, although their products seem really nice and cool, so I had forgiven them at the time... However, looking at the numerous links to their product JRebel on CodeRanch just looks like quite offending spam to me. Consider an arbitrary … Continue reading How to Make Your Advertisement Look Like Spam
The Great Benevolent Dictator Getting Some Beating
I know how it feels to be a benevolent dictator. I am one myself on my jOOQ User Group. Supporting Free Open Source Software isn't always easy. Sometimes you get demanding users, sometimes you get grumpy bugfixers. And the occasional troll. You try to be nice and sometimes, you make mistakes, too. But hey, even … Continue reading The Great Benevolent Dictator Getting Some Beating
A Great Counter-Rant
Now, this is a great counter-rant, replying to one of my more popular articles: https://blog.jooq.org/the-golden-rules-of-code-documentation/ The counter-rant is given here: http://javax0.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/to-comment-or-not-to-comment-that-is-the-question The writer went through the trouble of actually implementing my fictional (but not unrealistic) example, which he's publicly displaying on GitHub: https://github.com/verhas/commentOrNotToComment (my fork, if the former was deleted) The code still doesn't communicate … Continue reading A Great Counter-Rant
Get hidden feature requests from your users
In general, I'm not a marketing guy, I prefer to develop code. But when I look at modern marketing tools that we developers have created for our marketing friends, I'm getting a bit jealous. Take this blog, for instance. It's the perfect jOOQ marketing tool. Check out my 2013 visitor statistics: Quite obviously, my February … Continue reading Get hidden feature requests from your users
The true spirit of Open Source
As an open source developer, I'm often asking myself why the hell am I going through all of this pain in my free time to deliver quality software, when I'm already doing this in my office?? Sure, it's fun, you can try out new things, deepen your knowledge in a specific field, it helps boost … Continue reading The true spirit of Open Source
Hilarious Rant about SQL Injection
My recent article about SQL injection has stirred some serious emotions on JCG. I don't want to keep it from you! An extract: [...] The idea that if I use an ORM, my SQL injection woes will magically go away is f***ing harmful, shortsighted, and anybody who thinks that should be kicked squarely in a sensitive … Continue reading Hilarious Rant about SQL Injection