Peek inside Netflix A/B testing

Just a quick suggestion for today. Read this article on A/B testing at Netflix as it both shows you the importance of supporting A/B testing in your platform as well as an interesting insight into how we humans work when looking for something to watch & chill.

Go for C# developers: Interfaces that are never nil

This was a funny feature I came across when i was learning Go. I was working with an API that used interfaces and was surprised that some of my code did not behave the way I expected.

Prioritizing, Sleeping and Interviews

September 2008 wasn't a bad month for my blogging.

DRY vs WET

I've always been and advocate for intentionally ignoring the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) rule when writing tests if it makes the tests easier to understand. I've even (repeatably) said that some duplication might actually be a good thing when writing tests.

Go for C# developers: the foreach is not what it seem to be

If you are learning Go you know there is no foreach nor while in Go - just for with a few different ways of setting it up. There is a nice gotcha if you are doing what you think is a foreach though.

Preventing cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

Since I stumbled over a pretty good introduction to what CSRF is I figured it was worth a few lines.

Kanban and rants

Since I apparently got carried away blogged a lot in August 2008 I have to pick a few of the more interesting posts from that month and see if there is any update to be made. I guess that also means that by definition the things I don't mention today are not that interesting any more...

TeamSnippets review

This is for anybody out there looking for information on TeamSnippets since you are considering using it. Short version; I don't see why you would want to use such a service.

Go for C# developers: Introduction

When I first started to learn Go a few months ago I compared a lot of things to things that was familiar to me; C#. And I decided to make a series of posts explaining some go-isms in C# (or .Net) terms as well as high-light some of the differences that are important to know about.

All you ever wanted to know about password hashing

Well sometimes I'm lucky and somebody else writes something so I don't have to. Since you should assume that your system will be breached eventually you should make sure that your user's  passwords cannot be exposed as a lot of users reuse their passwords across multiple sites.