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Modern spring is amazing. Look into it. It's no longer the configuration hell it was 10 years ago. Everything is convention Over configuration. It's easy to run and configure.

I love spring boot. I use two databases and solr. It's easy. And fun.

So I've been a longtime public speaker and I've also worked on websites, mostly big, for about 13 years. One of the things that I get annoyed about are talks with too much fluff an…

WillyF, the last comment was a big aggressive to you to bring home the point, but I believe the main point was that even with generous predictions on their future business plan (wh…

FB only released not even close to 1/2 of their stock. The investors are still stock rich and won't sell off their shares yet. If they did, the price would tank to less than $20. T…

I don't mind it if it hides away from a platform. After all, that's the point of an API - to hide the dirty details. I mean, I've not touched assembly code in over 10 years. I've n…

You're absolutely right. But all frameworks have to go through these humps. Hell, I remember just 2 years ago having MongoDB in production it would regularly crash. We got rid of i…

Their messaging is a non-standard protocol. AMQP standard would be kick ass. Same with their cloud search - sooo obviously solr/lucene-based but 0 exposure to the lucene syntax. No…

When you have a marketplace of 600K sellers, the competition is fierce. Etsy tries hard to make them profitable by offering classes online and attempts to lower costs of supplies. …

Barely any sellers are profitable on etsy. They're all housewives or hipsters that sell at amazingly low profit margins. It's a steal if you want to buy handmade stuff though.

Etsy has always had remote working coders and they've always been aggressive about hiring talent. Their CEO is a genius at doing this, which is a great trait for a tech leader.

What are some things you'd like to see added to the language that's not yet there? Seems like a lot of the core features first get added to a language and once it's mature, most ne…

Great find. Holy crap does this bring back some memories.

Facebook isn't even the #1 spot right now. Google, apple, and microsoft are still much bigger companies than they are. And oh yeah, they make PROFIT. IMHO, facebook is GREATLY over…

Even though one can't reliably predict how to take down facebook, it's great to see google keep trying to lash at it. Historically, no tech company stays in the #1 spot for more th…

ANY free education, regardless of a comparison of today's system, is great. MIT and Stanford's courseware - AMAZING. The courses are THE SAME courses as CS courses. Now, there's no…

I hate people who put down people. They're assholes and stupid. Just kidding dude. I was just joking when I said that. I love coding. I'd fuck a node.js program and even let XML li…

That's all I said though, is that it reminded me of my Java years. And yeah, connecting to C libs is commonplace in large PHP places. In fact, that's how PHP gets a lot of it's wor…

This is nothing more than a simple press release to say that Red Hat and 10gen are working on "something." World's BEST? C'mon man. This title resembles a title on a pamphlet at a …

Bahh.. Don't be so patronizing. I'm a nerd dude. I was joking when I said I hate them all. I'll fuck Java and PHP in a 3some if given the chance. I'm saying as long as I get paid I…