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Ofer Zelig

https://fullstack.info · 20 posts · history since 2014 · active

1 Apr 2019

oferzelig 12 min read

I talk and chat to a lot with customers, prospects, or just entrepreneurs and business owners in various online and offline groups. There is one question that keeps being asked over and over; I often reply on-the-spot and I always The post Should You Outsource Your Core App or Software? appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's Blog.

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27 Mar 2017

oferzelig 5 min read

The frequency in which data leaks and breaches appear makes it easy to forget how severe some of them are. It seems like every 2 days we hear about a new data breach; we’ve got people like Troy Hunt who The post Handling Data Breaches, Or: The Art of Fixing and Saying “Sorry” appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's…

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20 Sept 2016

oferzelig 3 min read

Updated 31 January 2017 The need for Angular 2 quickstarters There’s an old dictum (not less than 2-3 years, which makes it really ancient in the software development industry): A good developer is a lazy developer. The idea of project The post Angular 2 Quickstarter / Bootstrap / Boilerplate Projects appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's Blog.

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2 Sept 2016

oferzelig 5 min read

Despite some bad things that happen in our planet (e.g. worldwide terrorism, weapons of mass destruction easily reached by dictators), if there’s something that makes me really positively thrilled about the near future, this thing is autonomous cars. I’m writing The post Autonomous Cars: A Letter to My Future Self appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's Blog.

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8 Aug 2016

oferzelig 5 min read

I usually attend quite a few meetups in Melbourne, in the areas of entrepreneurship and software development, but recently all planets aligned perfectly and I was fortunate enough to go to NDC Sydney – my first attendance at an International The post Observations from NDC Sydney 2016 appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's Blog.

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22 Mar 2016

oferzelig 6 min read

This is the first in a series of posts about awesome web / fullstack developer online services. As you might already have seen, I’m often critical of services and products – I usually find most of them suffering from not The post Awesome Services Series: CloudFlare appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's Blog.

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15 Feb 2016

oferzelig 10 min read

We’ve all encountered it at one point or another: poor customer support. And it seems to get worse on a weekly basis. “Poor” has many flavors: Not understanding what you want (well, this is actually the better case; the worse The post The Problem with Customer Support appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's Blog.

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11 Sept 2015

oferzelig 2 min read

Chrome 45 Regression Bug: MP3 audio seek stopped working It’s been about 10 days since Chrome 45 (45.0.2454.85) was released and I really don’t know how come no one has noticed such a substantial bug, influencing millions of users of The post Increased Bandwidth Consumption and Cost All over the Internet Due to a Chrome 45 Regression appeared first on…

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20 Jul 2015

oferzelig 3 min read

Last update: April 16th, 2017 Microsoft’s marketing department often names its products in names that don’t reveal anything about their “real” version numbers. Recently it’s mainly years, like “Visual Studio 2015” but it could be numbers which don’t correspond to The post Microsoft Developer Products Version & Release Numbers appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's Blog.

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22 Jun 2015

oferzelig 2 min read

UPDATE At about 23:00 (Pacific time, June 23) Google announced that they are removing the hotwording component entirely from Chromium: “it is not open source, it does not belong in the open source browser”. Good news. A few days ago, The post Not OK, Google appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's Blog.

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24 Apr 2015

oferzelig 4 min read

Running a Bamboo CI Server Remote Agent on a Windows Server (Cloud) This post is dedicated to all the lost souls out there of people who try to get a Bamboo Remote Agent Windows server to work. We scratched our The post Running a Bamboo CI Server Remote Agent on a Windows Server (Cloud) appeared first on FullStack - Ofer…

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26 Mar 2015

oferzelig 6 min read

TL;DR: It lets you make significant code and structural changes without fear, experiment features safely and much more. This post is a bit different from the rest of the posts in this blog. It is aimed towards developers in their The post Why You Should Use a Source Control Management System for Even the Simplest, Single-Developer Project appeared first on…

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2 Dec 2014

oferzelig 7 min read

I’m confused. For many years I’ve been a .NET / Microsoft stack developer (from now on I might call it .NET for simplicity, but what I mean is the Windows / ASP / .NET / IIS / SQL Server etc. The post To .NET or not to .NET, That is the Question appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's Blog.

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13 Oct 2014

oferzelig 5 min read

So, after a journey of almost a year since I decided/wanted I need to learn AngularJS, here is some compilation of my experience with AngularJS learning: recommended quickstart/learning resources, main influencers (blogs, podcasts etc.), gotchas and a general roadmap. For The post Beginning AngularJS: Best Paths to Take, Recommended People & Resources to Follow appeared first on FullStack - Ofer…

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24 Sept 2014

oferzelig 2 min read

Part IV – Where Is This Blog Post Series Heading To? Those of you who have followed this blog post series (millions. I know.) might have asked themselves what about subsequent posts, because it’s been a while. The answer is The post Linux (Ubuntu) Tutorial for Windows Developers & Power Users – Part IV appeared first on FullStack - Ofer…

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5 Jun 2014

oferzelig 4 min read

Part III – Launching Your First Ubuntu Server Machine In the first post of this series I explained the purpose of this tutorial, the type of audience it targets – Windows/.NET developers & power users, and why does a Windows The post Linux (Ubuntu) Tutorial for Windows Developers & Power Users – Part III appeared first on FullStack - Ofer…

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24 May 2014

oferzelig 4 min read

Here’s an email I’ve just got from Devin Wenig, eBay marketplaces president (emphasizes are mine): IMPORTANT: PASSWORD UPDATE Dear eBay Member, To help ensure customers’ trust and security on eBay, I am asking all eBay users to change their passwords. The post eBay, You Disappointed Us Badly appeared first on FullStack - Ofer Zelig's Blog.

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15 May 2014

oferzelig 5 min read

Part II – Ubuntu & Flavors of Linux In the first post of this series I explained the purpose of this tutorial, what type of audience it targets – Windows/.NET developers & power users, and why does a Windows power The post Linux (Ubuntu) Tutorial for Windows Developers & Power Users – Part II appeared first on FullStack - Ofer…

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13 May 2014

oferzelig 4 min read

Part I – Introduction This post will be the beginning of a series of posts, I still don’t know how many, that will attempt to teach you the basics of using Linux, specifically using Ubuntu Server (why Ubuntu and why The post Linux (Ubuntu) Tutorial for Windows Developers & Power Users – Part I appeared first on FullStack - Ofer…

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5 May 2014

oferzelig 7 min read

I didn’t plan this to be the first blog post in my brand new blog, but it’s something I had in mind for quite a long time and I’ve just stumbled across Scott Hanselman’s great Microsoft killed my Pappy post. The post Microsoft, This Is the One Gift You Should Give to the World appeared first on FullStack - Ofer…

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