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The downsides of going big
One of the things that I found out is that as Hibernating Rhinos grows (and we currently have over a dozen people working full time), I’m seeing two very interesting changes in my own behavior. The...
View ArticleSupport Triage
We got a call to the office. We have a huge problem with our system, you need to come and help us right away. This is a critical system and we need immediate response. That kinda of annoying, of...
View ArticleIt is a good day, celebrate it
It is a good day, so I decided to share some joy. For today only, we offer 21% discount for all our products. You can get that using coupon code: bzeiglglay This applies to RavenDB (Standard,...
View ArticleThe holidays, plans & what is next
So, we are done with the holidays here. The last month was basically very little work, because a lot of our people were out for the holidays. Internally, we are gearing up to finish the website for...
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Reading Habits
I’m reading a lot, and I thought that I would post a bit about my favorite subjects. I decided to summarize this year with great books that don’t really fall into standard categories, which I really...
View ArticleExercise, learning and sharpening skills
The major portion of the RavenDB core team is co-located in our main office in Israel. That means that we get to do things like work together, throw ideas off one another, etc. But one of the things...
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Crunching the numbers
I’m running the numbers, and I didn’t really believe them. So I put them in a chart, and I’m still not sure that I trust them. Here you can see our income per month for the past year. Yes, July was...
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Picture of the day, Rhino & Raven
We have an amateur photographer in the office, who like to arrange the rhinos in the office (now exceeding 100, I think) in various ways. I really like this picture.
View ArticleMy view on crowd funding
After my previous post, I was asked what I’m thinking about the notion of crowd funding, which is currently all the rage. The answer is complicated. I’m focusing right now on things like kick starter...
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Why RavenDB isn’t written in F#, or the cost of the esoteric choice
In a recent post, a commenter suggested that using F# rather than C# would dramatically reduce the code size (measured in line numbers). My reply to that was: F# would also lead to a lot more...
View ArticleWhen I gave up on pointers
hI started programming with that orange turtle ( I think it was supposed to be green, but we had bad CRT screens ) by drawing stuff on the screen. I think that I was in fifth grade or so. I later...
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The Incredibles II
I just got back from watching the Incredibles 2. The previous movie was a favorite a mine from first view, and it is one of the few movies that I can actually bear to watch multiple times. I was hoping...
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Toddlers, cursing and preparing ahead of time
My daughter is 3¼ years old now. About the time that she was born, I decided that I needed to make a small change in my language. Whenever I felt the urge to curse, I would say a food’s name. For...
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The GitHub profile you don’t want in your CV
I just got a CV from a candidate looking for a junior position. I looked at the CV (and oh my God, did this guy have a lot of acronyms in there). I noted that he has a GitHub account in the CV, so...
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Looking at a candidate’s GitHub profile
When a candidate sends a CV and includes a GitHub profiler, that almost always guarantees that I’ll give that profile a look. The most interesting thing from my perspective in a GitHub profile is that...
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The candidate’s portfolio
This is a screen shot from a CV I just read:The CV itself is kind of boring. Just graduated, did so and so course and was excellent in foo and bar. We see dozens of CVs like that on a regular basis....
View ArticleThis code has expectations from the reader
I just had a discussion with a colleague about a fix of non trivial code. The question was what comments should go into the code to explain what was going on. If you care to know, this related to the...
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Abusing system flexibility to avoid paying collect tolls
I’m going to feel like an old man for this post, but if you were born post 1995, it is likely that you have no idea what I’m talking about in this post, crazy as this sounds to me. Before there was a...
View ArticleTechnical marketing from the other side
I spent the last couple of days in the O’Reilly Architecture Conference and HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Conference. During that time, I had the chance of listening to...
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The big red sales button
I used the term “Big Red Sales Button” in a previous post, and got a question about it. You can see an illustration of that on the right.The Big Red Sales Button (BRSB from now on) is a metaphor used...
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