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Toma Velev's Blog

Toma Velev's Blog

By Toma Velev

This is Toma Velev's podcast. I'll be talking about technology, programming, marketing, psychology and philosophy, food and health. All are related to projects I am or I have worked on. Many of the episodes will most likely be - connecting the dots between different technologies - and especially similarities of them all.
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Full Stack Java Dev in the Crypto space – Ethereum

Full Stack Java Dev in the Crypto space – Ethereum

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/

Oct 27, 202116:56
The Sneaky Level above Software Development

The Sneaky Level above Software Development

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.

Feb 24, 202103:56
Backend Developer into the Frontend World Madness

Backend Developer into the Frontend World Madness

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/

Feb 24, 202110:46
Utility Apps are Gone – Long Live the Social Ones

Utility Apps are Gone – Long Live the Social Ones

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.

Feb 24, 202107:33
Pick a Role in Software Development Company 2020/2021

Pick a Role in Software Development Company 2020/2021

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.

Nov 11, 202022:39
How to Fit into Roles & Positions

How to Fit into Roles & Positions

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.

Nov 11, 202005:37
State-based Software Development for Everybody

State-based Software Development for Everybody

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.

Nov 11, 202011:32
Implementation of Programming Concepts & Apps

Implementation of Programming Concepts & Apps

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.

Nov 11, 202007:08
Do you think about Software Updatability?

Do you think about Software Updatability?

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

Nov 11, 202009:07
Are you Theming? Minimal Software GUI requirement of 2020

Are you Theming? Minimal Software GUI requirement of 2020

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.

Nov 11, 202005:40
9 Features to make a Social Software Product Successful

9 Features to make a Social Software Product Successful

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.

Nov 11, 202016:06
What are the usual User Interface Components

What are the usual User Interface Components

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

Nov 11, 202016:01
Test Driven Development from All Perspectives

Test Driven Development from All Perspectives

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.

Nov 11, 202017:33
Android GUI Options to choose from 2020+

Android GUI Options to choose from 2020+

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

Nov 11, 202016:57
What is Good User Experience for the Coder and the User?

What is Good User Experience for the Coder and the User?

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...

Nov 11, 202007:05
CIBA

CIBA

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. 

Jun 30, 202012:47
Making sense of software and technologies from little beyond developer – business point of view

Making sense of software and technologies from little beyond developer – business point of view

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.

Jun 01, 202021:29
Making sense of software and technologies from developer point of view

Making sense of software and technologies from developer point of view

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

May 31, 202016:53
Programming Language and Software Technologies – explained for Managers and Business Owners

Programming Language and Software Technologies – explained for Managers and Business Owners

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.

May 29, 202011:34
Do or do Not Repeat Yourself

Do or do Not Repeat Yourself

Some technical and some non-technical aspect of repetition.

May 26, 202015:22
Application Development - Paging Approaches

Application Development - Paging Approaches

Every application that is serious enough, that archives even a partial success, and especially if it archives big size, big scale, data or social reach, needs to show to the users – big, maybe even very big quantity of some data type. Doing this at once – at that point, dumping the huge amounts of information becomes impractical and even impossible. Many times, even the servers could get overwhelmed if the applications are not coded properly, let alone – some end users with desktop or even mobile device:
https://tomavelev.com/blog/Application%20Development%20-%20%20Paging%20Approaches

May 22, 202012:57
Application Data Models – Facebook

Application Data Models – Facebook

Some Data Models I see in FB and some additional, political opinion around the whole thing.

May 14, 202015:30
4 Service or System Generic Application Fields

4 Service or System Generic Application Fields

I'll describe the most popular - common to all kinds of data models - field types

May 09, 202004:37
What is Your Purpose with Technology

What is Your Purpose with Technology

Observe deeper - how technology is used.

May 09, 202005:40
Application Data Structure – WordPress

Application Data Structure – WordPress

The Data Model of one of the most popular CMS Platforms

May 09, 202004:56
Application - General Purpose - Data Structure and Abstractions

Application - General Purpose - Data Structure and Abstractions

Detached Developer Point of View on Tech things and how they are linked to the real world - or why it helps a lot to abstract things to a higher level.

May 09, 202009:30
Detached Application Developer

Detached Application Developer

The things you need, and the mindset of thinking for - out of the tech integration

May 09, 202007:42
My Journey as Android Developer

My Journey as Android Developer

In this episode I talk about my Journey I went through as Android Developer. 

Apr 29, 202017:13
Levels of Independence in Software

Levels of Independence in Software

Independence is the reason we have so many variations of all kinds of stuff. To fight the way the Western Game is played – there is a need to have – legal, physical, software, financial, intellectual even mental independence of the tools and activities – technology, software product, framework, book, song, dance and whatever.  The things that need independence are – programming languages (remember the fight between Oracle and Google over Java in Android), Internet Browser Independence (that creates support hell for developers), Separate implementations of Specifications and Standards, Application Software (so the Big Companies could lock the businesses to their Platforms),  Lock-down of the features to their hardware (Apple), Server Hardware and Software an so on.

Apr 27, 202006:57
Internet Apps - User Based Apps

Internet Apps - User Based Apps

Internet Apps - User Based Apps

Apr 26, 202007:42
Internet Apps - Where the apps store Data.

Internet Apps - Where the apps store Data.

Internet Apps - Where the apps store Data.

Apr 26, 202008:35
Compilation targets

Compilation targets

In this episode I talk about the evolution of compilation target and the abstractions that make it easy for us - developers to think in high level problems - first - then - how to organize the bytes in the computer.

Mar 13, 202013:42
Learning - The Ponzi Schemes of the Information Age

Learning - The Ponzi Schemes of the Information Age

I try to unmask the click bates and describe things from a philosophical point of view

Mar 11, 202016:38
Common Sense in The Matrix

Common Sense in The Matrix

Applying common sense in the abstract world of human society

Mar 11, 202008:58
Common Sense Definition

Common Sense Definition

Common Sense Definition - and why you should be a cell, with membrane that does not allow everybody to get in

Mar 11, 202006:34
Channels

Channels

Communication pipes - my two cents

Feb 06, 202033:59
Prototype Creator

Prototype Creator

The Work in Progress and description of a piece of my work

Jan 22, 202016:25
Math vs Art and more in the Internet World

Math vs Art and more in the Internet World

How to approach the Internet Development - Programming, Business, Design

Jan 21, 202011:31
The Enterprise, Cross Language, Environment, Platform Programming Code Structure

The Enterprise, Cross Language, Environment, Platform Programming Code Structure

How to organize your code - so it is easy to understand and learn - so you and your team members dive into business (logic), instead into tech shit.

Jan 18, 202013:43
Android GUI and Asynchronous Operations

Android GUI and Asynchronous Operations

Android Core GUI components and ways to do some work without blocking the UI

Jan 15, 202016:26
 Professional Front End and App Developers Tips and Hints – not for 2020 but for-ever

Professional Front End and App Developers Tips and Hints – not for 2020 but for-ever

Several tips and tricks that I learned over the years - in front end and app development

Jan 08, 202016:54
What Internet marketers and self-development gurus are not telling you

What Internet marketers and self-development gurus are not telling you

My two cents about - how not to eat the bate.

Jan 06, 202011:02
Star Wars 9 Idea that I see

Star Wars 9 Idea that I see

My 2 cents, what you should focus and extract from Star Wars 9

Dec 20, 201903:46
The evolution of Internet

The evolution of Internet

How the Internet is evolving from technical point of view?

Dec 10, 201910:14
Make money from software or software development

Make money from software or software development

There are several ways to make money from software. In this episode a share some of the ways I know.

Oct 23, 201912:35
Hierarchies of Competence and Confidence about Software and Stuff

Hierarchies of Competence and Confidence about Software and Stuff

A personal opinion about - Hierarchies of Competence and Confidence about Software (development, services etc)

Oct 21, 201909:14
What every Software Developer Should Strive For

What every Software Developer Should Strive For

In this episode I share some small ideas about what goals every software developer should have. 

Oct 21, 201903:02
Developer Observations

Developer Observations

Observations from developing software.

Oct 15, 201911:09
Programming Tips

Programming Tips

What are you getting paid for as a programmer? To Create fast - a software of high quality. Focus on a technology and become flash fast with it and produce software. Also - an Observation - A lot of the Internet Systems are User Oriented - with User Management, Roles, Content with some defined visibility. 

Oct 12, 201906:27
What is your added value to the end consumer?

What is your added value to the end consumer?

Pyramid schemes, value, work, what a technical individual should focus more on? And is to better understand the consumer and improve the tools the products and services to be more in sync to other people's needs than to the tech person himself.

Oct 07, 201912:55