Author Archives

Poker

just found this

Economic Situation In Ukraine Is Worsening

As of January 31, 2010 public and publicly guaranteed debt of Ukraine amounted to 301 billion 538 million 747.28 thousand UAH, or 37 billion 686 million 690.45 thousand dollars. At the same time, reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) amounted to 25 billion 285 million 920 thousand dollars on January 31, 2010. Economic [...]

Daydreamers

Would you like to spend a day by the sea doing nothing but walking around and dreaming? Watch this video, listen to the amazing tunes and get that atmosphere!

Backup Your CVS/SVN Repository to Amazon S3

Recently I decided to implement one additional layer of protection for our CVS repository. It was only backed up to another folder on the same server, the same virtual disk (RAID 0). “Why not use Amazon S3 storage for additional protection?”,- I thought.
Step 1: Compile FUSE support into the kernel and install s3fs Step 2: [...]

How To Create Passionate Users

Some time ago I found an annotation of the talk Kathy Sierra gave at (don’t remember which) conference. I’m republishing it here to spread the good knowledge. Read slowly, it is fantastic!

If we want to create passionate users, we need to help them get better.

‘Nobody’s passionate about things they suck at.”
Many people still have their [...]

What It Means to Be a Leader

I haven’t made a new post for a long time – sorry for that! In fact I was quite busy and there were more important things in my life – we all have such periods. Recently my girlfriend dropped me a link to a short video explaining what it means to be a leader – [...]

Cute Short Movie By Pixar

Just found this amazing short movie by Pixar. Brilliant!

Haircut Showing Support To Linux :)

Last week I made a special haircut to show my support to Linux and Gentoo in particular. Isn’t it beautiful?

Coremoid – Simple CPU Usage Plasmoid For KDE4

Update: There is a nice replacement for coremoid plasmoid in KDE 4.3.x. It shows kernel and user space usage in different colors, shows swap usage, etc. I find it more useful than coremoid. You may want to try it instead of coremoid plasmoid.

I’ve been using Coremoid plasmoid since KDE 4 was available only in SVN [...]

Aptana Studio Optimization

I’ve been picking up a decent PHP & Python IDE for some period and decided to try Aptana Studio. I had Eclipse with PHPEclipse installed for some time but then dropped it because I thought it was too slow. Aptana Studio isn’t faster than Eclipse + PHPEclipse in any way but I liked it.
This time [...]