Datagraver has a few charts related to the number of victims of terrorism in Western Europe in the last almost 50 years. Given how much hype terrorism gets and how many changes we see in the day-to-day life related to it, the stats are quite interesting.
Zyprus.com has this nice Affordability Calculator, which, given a few basic numbers, helps one estimate the price of the house that will comfortably fit into the budget (yeah, those are the words they use). It’s a nice tool for people who have been saving up to buy a property. For me though, no matter what … Continue reading House Affordability Calculator
WordPress in general, and Matt Mullenweg in particular have been pushing for JavaScript for a while now. So, it’s not surprising that WordPress developers are chatting about the JavaScript framework that they’ll use for the WordPress core JavaScript needs. The discussion is far from finalized right now, so it’s particularly interesting to see how it … Continue reading Choosing a future JavaScript framework for WordPress
Way too often I hear rants from random people (unfortunately, many of them are also from the IT industry, with the deep understanding of the underlying issues) complaining about why company X or product Y doesn’t implement this or that feature. As someone who has been involved a dozens, if not hundreds, of projects, I … Continue reading HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road
I came across this rather strongly opinionated blog post – GitFlow considered harmful, and I have to say that I mostly agree with it. In our company, we use a similar approach to the Anti-gitflow, but with even more simplicity. This is one particular thing I like so much about git is that each person, team, … Continue reading GitFlow considered harmful, and how we do it