Talk about Technologies, Software Architecture and Management

Watching Babylon 5 and advertising

AOL Videogives us option to see some of the old TV shows. Being interested in Sci-Fi Babylon 5 took my attention. Nice and I really enjoy it. One distraction though – constant advertising. Having Kaspersky Internet Securityfor some time I almost forgot how it feels. But then it is not available always. Then you start to look for something simpler and free. After some research I have found something which might fit here – IE7Pro – addition to your browser which will help you block active advertising…

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

How many sysadmins does it takes to bring up a server

We all know an answer for “how many developers does it take to change a light bulb?” – “The light bulb works fine on the system in my office…” Well, there is more here. Being in the seat of sys admin in the past on several occasions for several years total, I was astonished to find out that it takes two days for sysadmins at 1and1 to restore a Linux web-server – went down somewhere early July 24th and didn’t comeback until morning July 26th. Isn’t Linux infrastructure is most reliable one? Or was a technician busy with something else? We have had repair MS Server with IIS in the past in a few hours where most of it is hardware manipulations… consider that you have a Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

The Evolution of a Programmer

Going through some of the old emails found this… Sorry if it is too long of the post but it nicely shows some truth about our life.

  • High School/Jr.High 
    10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 END
  • First year in College 
    program Hello(input, output)
begin
   writeln('Hello World')
end.
  • Senior year in College 
    (defun hello
(print
   (cons 'Hello (list 'World))))

    • (more…)

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

PHP 4 is absolute… or… it will be very soon

Did you notice that PHP 4 is now absolite? Official PHP web-site has announced PHP 4 end of life. July 13, 2007: “The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08.” You might want to consider moving along and update to PHP 5 version.

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

Programmers and temperaments

If you ever studied psychology then you are familiar with different types of the human temperaments. This term was first introduced by Claudius Galen but then widely used everywhere.

A few years back programmer’s “temperaments” definition was introduced…

Going through different blogs I have found the following entry which discuss types of the development processes seen in different organizations – do not take it seriously, but as you can see in every joke there is a bit of the truth.

And this reminded me about something from the past: definition of different types of programmers or programmer’s “temperaments”.
I have tried to find English version of it but did not succeed. Instead I found something different Code and Personality by Kevin Marks & Maf Vosburgh. Take a minute and read it.

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By Serguei Dosyukov, ago

GPS or Merry-Go-Round. Part I

GPS – small thing which becomes more and more popular. If you travel somewhat often and to places where you never been then this thing might help you to spare a few unpleasant minutes. 1. Hardware I’ve decided not to look at any standalone units like Garmin. Why? Well, I have one of last Axim 51  (Dell decided to discontinue making them and I do not really know why… since unit is very nice.) Therefore I have an antique … also I have a laptop and I want to use both when I am traveling. I was using MapPoint for quite some time, and I can say that it worked well for me but I had not have a GPS for it, so trip planning Read more

By Serguei Dosyukov, ago