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Датчане, изменившие мою жизнь

Датчане, изменившие мою жизнь

На этот пост меня натолкнул мой сегодняшний уход (в который раз) с TextMate на Atom. Как связаны текстовые редакторы с датчанами и жизнью? Расскажу: Первый датчанин (в хронологическом порядке влияния на жизнь) - Бьерн Страуструп [https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%

The blog goes wild (and Russian)

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The blog goes wild (and Russian)

tl;dr this blog will be in the Russian language from now on, all English posts go to my Medium account [https://medium.com/@shiroginne]. This blog was initially created as a blog about my programming experience and other IT topics. It could have continued like that, I could just

wicked_pdf tips&tricks

wicked_pdf tips&tricks

In the project I am developing there is a need to generate a PDF with different data (PDF is very popular in Germany). There is a couple of Ruby gems for this job, all of them are good, but one is the best - wicked_pdf [https://github.com/mileszs/

What can a programmer do during Christmas holidays?

What can a programmer do during Christmas holidays?

I've written a sort article about what a programmer can do during Christmas holidays [https://medium.com/@shiroginne/%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BC-%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B3%

Some advice to the programmers looking for a job

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Some advice to the programmers looking for a job

Lately I’ve been responsible for finding programmers for our small team. CVs are coming, people do their test tasks, we communicate. Sometimes it goes well, but more often it goes not so well. I’ve collected some advice for those who are looking for a new job. Brush up

Newsletter under hood

Newsletter under hood

The weekly issue of my newsletter [https://macshifford.me/newsletter/] have been appearing for several months. I think this format is so convenient that many people want to start their own newsletters. That’s why I’d like to share my own newsletter experience. For sending letters I use Revue

Telegram channel

Telegram channel

A couple of months ago I started my own email newsletter [https://macshifford.me/i-starting-a-weekly-email-digest/] with the articles that I had read during the week with a short description. The format is still being developed, it changes from time to time but the idea remains the same. When I was

I am starting a weekly email digest

I am starting a weekly email digest

tl;dr Hej all, I am starting a weekly email digest with the links to interesting posts, books, movies, games, etc. It will be in Russian but the resources it contains can be in different languages. Every Sunday morning. The main topics are: * programming (web and back end) * technology and

#Rustyweekend

Rust [https://www.rust-lang.org] has been appearing on the Internet very often recently. Steve Klabnik attended RubyConferenceBy which was held a few weeks ago and spoke about combining Ruby and Rust in the same project. Although Rust language was originally developed as a systems programming language, the community liked

Anti hype: how to stop worrying and start to live

Anti hype: how to stop worrying and start to live

An absolutely gorgeous talk about hype around new programming languages and technology (and libraries). The talk is so gorgeous and it’s a pity that those who don’t speak Russian can’t understand it. > You’ve heard about a new programming language, what do you have to know?

rubyconference.by

rubyconference.by

I’ve been visiting almost every meet up or conference in Minsk for nearly 7 years. I remember the first BRUG meet ups in different places and spaces. This year another conference is coming - rubyconference.by [http://rubyconference.by]. And it’s going to be the best Ruby Conference

I’m done. I’m out!

I’m done. I’m out!

I envy iOS developers: learn Objective-c and you’re ready for 10 years. Swift comes? Learn swift and you’re ready for another 10 years. I envy Android developers: learn java and you’re ready to build applications until Android platform ends. And what about backend programmers? Learn ruby/pyhton/

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TDD is dead?

Recently there’ve been more and more articles with a similar idea: TDD is not a thing anymore. I don’t know, maybe DHH has raised a waive with his iconic “TDD is dead” [http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html] and younger programmers hiped it across the internet. Or

OS X productivity course

A few weeks ago I wrote about some productivity tricks in OS X, and now my twitter friend Ivan Nemytchenko [https://twitter.com/inem] made a one-week course about his OS X productivity tricks. It starts on February 8th. After subscribing you'll get an article "How to

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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.

Day of the Programmer & 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

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

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

IDE

That's why I don't like IDEs :)