Posts By: Liv

Tracking Users Online — Part 1

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I’ve written before in my blog about privacy online, cookies, user tracking and so on. The idea isn’t new at all and it is encountered on every decent website out there. (In fact, I use a few different solutions on my blog for various reasons: analyzing the number of unique visitors, page views, filtering comments, […]

Small (Mac OS) Script to Backup Raspberry Pi

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I’m a big fan of Raspberry PI — to the point where I have actually 2 of these little rascals. (I actually use one of them occasionally to run bits of development stuff on it — test things like nodejs and groovy scripts etc; and the other one I sort of keep for experimental PI […]

Of Twitter and Mobile

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I use Twitter a lot (see for yourself here if you don’t believe me 🙂 ) — and as such it annoys me terribly when I see companies using it the wrong way. And by “wrong way” I’m not talking about the contents of their tweets — it’s a free world and everyone has the […]

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Careful with Naming in Your Platform — Part 2

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I’ve written before on this blog about the importance of naming “things” in a tech platform/framework and I feel this deserves a bit more attention, so here is a follow-up. Previous post saw me discussing naming class member data as well as database fields — these can wreak havoc amongst your users (be them developers […]

Tales from Ole’ Romania: Electricity

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OK, so I’ve decided to blog, amongst all the other stuff I publish on my blog, about some of the experiences I’ve been through or remember from “ole Romania”: the pre-1989, communist, Romania — or RSR (The Socialist Republic of Romania as it was known to us). I’ve realised recently, talking to people “from the […]

maven-release Plugin and GitHub Issues

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This one is another good find from the maven “gotchas” archives. Good enough at least to make it onto my blog 🙂 I brief, I’ve been pulling my hair for the best part of yesterday trying to figure out what’s going wrong with my maven-based project, which used to work otherwise fine until recently. It […]

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Careful with Naming in Your Platform

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For those of you who keep an eye on my blog, I write quite a bit about technology and about software engineering — that’s because by trade I am a software engineer and quite passionate about a few areas in this segment. I write code and as such I blog a lot about coding. I […]