The beauty of Io

Io — An exclamation of joy or triumph; Webster dict. (1913) quote from original Io Programming Guide 2003. Looking back to 2003 when I worked with Io Programming Language and even did some network core patch and made Russian translation. I was looking for a good light language which fits my style — simple, but powerful, something like Smalltalk, but more accessible, ideally open sourced. There were no NodeJS and Javascript was not that popular like now. »

Productivity vs. Time Wasting: A Complete Breakdown Measured with Pomodoros

This article is for everyone who likes productivity. And even if you hate things like time-management keep reading - who knows may be you will figure-out how to get your time organized and start liking it - like I was. May be you’ve already know Pomodoro Technique: Pomodoro Technique Is a simple and effective way to improve your work & study habits The idea behind this technique is to split the achieving your work or study goals into a 25 minutes time-slices - pomodoros (🍅) plus a 5 min break after each pomodoro which totals in 30 mins for one pomodoro and a brake. »

Create a Blog — The Developer's Way

You’ve already know Medium which looks great and feels nice. But you can imagine all disadvantages of Medium when you want to create you own project - like custom domain, etc. We’re going to install nice blogging platform Ghost which looks pretty nice and uses modern technologies inside - so it’s clean out of the box and allows hacking. Welcome to the Ghost blogging platform. Here is a short tutorial on how you can setup Ghost blog from scratch in less than 10 minutes. »

Apple's design vs technology

It seems to me that the worst days came to the horizon or technology won battle versus Apple’s best thinking. We learn about Apple’s design thinking from the Jony Ive Apple’s SVP Design in the Gary Hustwit’s film Objectified where Jony reveals some concepts behind his and Apple’s thinking: At some level, I think you’re aware of a calm and considered solution, that therefore speaks about how you’re going to use it, and not the terrible struggles that we as designers and engineers had in trying to solve the problems. »

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Ghost

I migrated this blog from Wordpress to a Ghost which is a brilliant blogging platform. This post will be updated with further details a little bit later. Now just want to share that it finally happen. Without doubt this will keep me posting :-) »

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Selling before coding

Imagine a situation when you have to code something which will also be visible to the user. One of the option is just to start coding and to see if it will work for customers and result is quite good enough. And I go that way often myself - start to code for a final result almost immediately.

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Taking off

Hello everyone! This is my blog about lifestyle of software developers. If I could program our world I would make the teleports, but now I just have to code between flights when I travel. So please enjoy the new born blog, and hold on your breath! We are taking off! »

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