programming

A must-see speech by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin on programmers responsibilities in digital world and 9 principles every programmer should follow (“The Coders’ Code”).

One of the challenge for start-up or any new project is to reduce amount of work yet to deliver full-featured product. Agile methodologies address this challenge on project management level. Let’s discuss one more approach to address it on architecture level: UI-first development.

User authentication is an important part of the web service API design. One of the common approach is the Hash-based Message Authentication Code – HMAC. Used together with transport level security it provides reliable mechanizm of user authentication and message integrity validation.