Toma Velev's Blog

My Take on getting to know the Crypto Space - from a Java Full Stack Developer & Philosopher point of view. Text (Article) Version could be read here:  https://programtom.com/dev/2021/10/27/full-stack-java-dev-in-the-crypto-space-ethereum/

There is hidden to the naked eye – Sneaky and hidden level above Software Development. The Online Platforms and Content Management Systems – Free and Paid, self-hosted and rented bring you to the next level of human society.

Being half-Backend (Full-stack) Developer I cannot stop myself from looking at the Frontend World as some kind of mindless madness. More on https://programtom.com/dev/2021/02/22/backend-developer-in-the-frontend-world-madness/

Utility Apps are gone – Long Live the Internet Social Platforms and Services. We are year 2021 and the technology sector has grown up and is here to stay. It doesn’t matter what are our feelings to the Gadgets, the Apps, the Companies and Corporations.

If you think the main focus in software development company is about programming source code, you are wrong. The “fruit” of the work is the code, yes. But, to reach the coding phase, there are several other roles to fill, other tasks to execute, before a company could archive the thing called business.

When you see the big picture, you don’t hate, you don’t blame, you don’t overpraise or holy bless the worm pinned onto the fishing hook. You see the good & the bad. You try to get the best of every aspect.

State-based Software Development from a Data Model – onto the outer layers is old idea with variety of environments within and even outside of the coding world. This mode of organizing some type of information into reactive and responsive software and architectures is not a coincidence. It brings stability, security, scalability, ease of use and many more features.

If you are coding software long enough, you could recognize how the same Programming Concepts are reimplemented again and again. It is just like the mathematical fractals or the evolution of species. Everything is new, but in the same time, the same old thing, just the package is different. It is different, because of the environment, the current trends and the current requirements and expectations from software.

Updatability is one of the most important aspects a Software. It is the core that creates good User Experiences.

In 2019-2020 theming the GUI became a thing. It was so fast that it got integrated in the all big Operating Systems. You better also do it.

The secrets to make a software successful - 9 tips or features to implement to make it social so it could have a chance of any success.

At any type of device with screen - there are common user interface components. They may be painted differently, but the ideas are the same.

What is Test Driven Development, Why and When you should use it? What are the benefits of TDD depending on the roles in a Software Company.

In this episode you will read the options available for building Android GUI [Graphical User Interfaces] in year 2020 and beyond.

User Experience is a concept that could be materialized in so many places - Development, Designs, Marketing, Engineering, Sales, and so on. In this episode I'm focusing on Development and a little bit on Software Users side...

My personal opinion about Client Initiated Back-Channel Authentication - migrating the control of the access to the data of the users in their hands in a standardized way. 

The choice of technical stack, software and Platform nowadays is theoretically endless. But, with enough experience in software and business, it is actually very logical and specific – what you should pick – to meet the business requirements and the use desired cases. Having clear business requirements is very important so to create specific technical requirements and specification, so the software to actually do what is supposed to.

No, it does not make sense. But, things are more complex than a simple yes or no ...

From a Software point of view, if you plan to pay for someone to write the source code, have in mind that it should be planned for big scale, so the development approach have it in mind and not end up writing the software for one machine – and thus – will later require rewrite. This also should be done when the manager already knows from the feedback of the world, that something is going to be used, otherwise it is waste of time and money.

Some technical and some non-technical aspect of repetition.