You are the portfolio manager of your own career, with the potential to choose how to define your experience. However, specializing experience may be as limiting as a portfolio based on a single asset, for you never know when it could unexpectedly depreciate. — Is it bad to be an SME — Software Matter Expert? Deeply understanding your niche is not detrimental to your career Being one of the best people at what you do differentiates you. It gives you the edge needed to stand out and have the biggest impact in your domain. By focusing for many years on one type of work, you become great at it.

Bringing out the photographer within you can be a cathartic experience from which you can benefit throughout your life. Without even making your work public, you can unlock your artistic side and notice beauty all around that you may have otherwise overlooked.

Given the state of the world — with both a focus on Data Analysis and inability to travel due to unforeseeable COVID lockdowns — being able to progress in your quest for an MSc without these being a blocker is of immense value. — The study of data analytics is a popular topic these days. Our world has gone through multiple cycles of industrial evolution. Most recently, every business has needed to onboard technology in their day to day in order to stay competitive. Today, thanks to each business being part of the technological…

What opportunities are you leaving out of the picture by building thick UI clients, especially for internal products? — There’s no arguing that UIs should be rich, easy to use, promoting a good and adaptable UX, customisable to each individual user. What can we take in consideration when designing new architectures to keep as many future opportunities open for enhancing both clients and servers? My proposal is with each…

Having made the code available since 2018 on GitHub, there is now a live demo available with some small cleanups published to the repository. Within a few minutes anyone can create their own instance. Contributions are welcome if anyone will be so inclined. …

PHP has received so much hate along the years that today it is one of the most notorious programming languages on the planet, only partially due to how popular and prevalent it is (+70% of websites), but it can be a force for good. There are many posts on how…

Manage expectations and adjusting your use-cases for the web is the most solid advice I can give after using AG-Grid in enterprise applications, under many different deployment scenarios (plain data & streamed). — I will go through a few topics in very few words, all of them being things I was not able to find much information on during my research on using AG-Grid as effectively as possible and dealing with the different blockers.

It was unnecessarily difficult to figure out how to generate a simple query for Lucene able to search documents based on multiple fields. The way I have personally come to do this is to generate the String query itself and then parse it into a query object. Here we go…