It’s interesting what one can find when cleaning up an old laptop before dumping it 🙂 Old photos that I’ve long forgotten of (some embarrassing ones too, omg the haircuts I supported throughout the time! :D), snippets of code back from the day when technology X was just coming out of its stables and I […]
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Product Idea — Uber in Hotels?
I stumbled upon this potential idea recently, when one of my friends from Romania was over here for a conference. His company was paying for his trip expenses and they put him up in a hotel in Redwood City as it turns out. As you do when you travel, you try and connect with old […]
Snow in Romania, Jan/2016
Here’s what my hometown Constanta looks like under the snow:
Jenkins CI Trick to Prevent Task from Triggering Itself on SCM Commit
I’ve come across this recently working on a project in Netflix and thought worth sharing. The project I was dealing with packages some JavaScript code which, before deployment, needed to be minified. We have set up our Jenkins task such that it polls Git for changes in the master branch and when the changes are […]
Of Java Streams … Again!
I just went again through this JAX London write-up (read more here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/10/jax-london-2015-round-up) and thought it was worth some more thoughts from me. As you might recall, I have touched before on the subject of Java 8 streams in this blog post back in Sep/2014. The thing that puzzled me back then was the fact […]
Convenience Factory Methods for Collections in Java 9
Looking the other day through the JDK Enhancements Proposals (aka “JEP“) I came across JEP-269: “Convenience Factory Methods for Collections”. Oh hello, where have you been all these previous JDK releases? 🙂 It seems finally the Java world has woken up to what other JVM languages (and not only!) have been offering for a while: […]
Christmas Tree 2015
Christmas in the Park — San Jose
And check out also the neigbours’ giant decorations! 🙂
Remember the Time
Does anyone remember a company called Borland? Or am I showing my age too much? 🙂 Spotted the other day, at a team event with my Netflix colleagues, in Mountain View.