lifehack OS X tips Recently I’ve had a talk with guys who are new in OS X. They told me that OS X is kind of outdated with window management and control elements living their own lives and always doing not what the user wants. “I don’t know how the window will
programming Motivation behind the Awesome Rubyist > Some new developers have recently joined our team, so we had to give them a list of books and resources where they could find relevant information. We started with the list of books which are a must for a freshman year, the so called “12 months books”... I'
talk Go(lang) talk On November 18 there was a fby.by (functional) community meet up where I was giving a talk on Go programming language. It was my first talk on the stage and I felt a bit nervous. But the guys said it was not bad and I tend to believe them
lifehack Pomodoro technique + Like any programmer I spend a lot of time in front of the computer. With time I noticed that my health is getting worse: backaches, sleepiness, dry eyes, etc. I’ve tried Jawbone UP and Apple Watch which told me to stand up and take a break. They helped a
links Remote work > Yeah! We’re remote friendly! We got Bob who lives in San Diego, we’re based in San Francisco, and we have a Slack room, and people usually can come in to work at ANY time (between 8am and 9am), but really fuck Bob he’s kind of a
conference RailsClub 2015 I’ve been visiting RailsClub conference in Moscow since the beginning. Then it was in Digital October conference hall. Sadly I missed last year's conference because of my laziness. But this year was different: many people from the slack team were going to attend and I had to
links September links 2/2 text: Hackers’ at 20 [http://passcode.csmonitor.com/hackers] - 'The pool on the roof has sprung a leak' The sad state of web app deployment [http://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/17/the-sad-state-of-web-app-deployment/] Generation Z [https://thebigplans.ru/generationz] CQRS example in the Rails app [http://blog.
links Day of the Programmer & links Happy day of the programmer everyone! In case if you don't know what it is - RTFM [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Programmer]. Wish you less bugs and compiler warnings! And if you still sober, here are the links to read and listen: video: ITT
links The Web We Have To Save > When I log on to Facebook, my personal television starts. All I need to do is to scroll: New profile pictures by friends, short bits of opinion on current affairs, links to new stories with short captions, advertising, and of course self-playing videos. I occasionally click on like or
programming Static vs Dynamic It puts an end to the argument between static and dynamic typing > What's true about every bug found in the field? It passes the type checker! ... It passes all the tests! Rich Hickey, Simple Made Easy [http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy] p.s this talk is
tech I use it I like a lot the series of screencasts from Peepcode play by play where the author together with a designer or a programmer solves a problem, usually not a very complicated one. I also like to have a look at a computer configuration of other people, that's why
tech Coffee & bugs Everyone faces bugs in software for a computer or a phone: an app hangs up or glitches - reboot and everything is ok! However software is installed not only in smart things but in many other 'dumb' ones: refrigerators, coffee machine, cars ... There is no sense in making
tech 1password shortcut that saves me millions of minutes And I didn't know about it until last week: cmd + \ in browser - fills in login/password for the current page.
ruby Ruby community I've long been thinking that in the same way our language and culture form our perception of the world, a programming language defines our standards of work and life. A great episode of ruby rogues [http://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/198-rr-expanding-the-ruby-community-values-to-other-languages-with-scott-feinberg-and-mark-bates] which describes the ruby community and what it
programming Month of JavaScript I don't like JavaScript. For the time working in WEB I've wrote much of JS code, but mostly it was DOM manipulation with jQuery, not big deal. So the last task was the same: dependent select elements. I did it with jQuery and DOM bindings. So
talk Talk: Haskell in real life Recently, as part of regular meetings of Erlang community, I've given a talk about Haskell: where to learn about the language, where it is used and where to find haskellers. It was my first public speech and it was really exciting. The talk is in Russian. Slides here
programming Learning Haskell bitemyapp has written a great overview of popular books/sources about learning Haskell. - http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-12-31-functional-education.html Last time when I tried to get into haskell (3 years ago), there was less information about it. LYAH [http://learnyouahaskell.com], some blog posts and one book by Roman
lifehack 2015 > "My new year's resolution is 1136x640" twitter joke. There are only 3 days left from the first week of the new year, the desire to change something in your life is still warm, but your confidence is falling. It will take a little time and
Benchmark of symbols and strings in ruby Friday, the end of the working day, no sings of trouble. "You've got mail" - ruby weekly. The latest much-talked of posts in blogs, jobs (skipping) ... wait, software engineer, London? The description of a vacancy and a firm ... a problem, that's interesting. "A
Quick start into ruby and rails These books I recommend for starting ruby and rails stage 1 * Programming Ruby (2nd edition): The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide by Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt (O'Reilly [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780974514055.do]) * Agile Web Development with Rails 4 by Sam Ruby (PragProg [https:
