Safe Programming
Sep 13, 2013 |
This is about version control systems. Strangely enough, a huge number of quite decent programmers don’t even suspect what these systems are and why they’re needed at all. And of course, they don’t understand what they’re missing in life. Well then, I’ll try to help them, to the best of my modest abilities.
When developing medium to large software systems, all developers face a number of problems related to version control. You want to store all past versions somewhere, somehow document changes, have the ability to go back (if necessary), easily compare versions, etc.
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Yet Another Home Cloud - BitTorrent Sync
Jun 18, 2013 |
The home cloud theme isn’t new for me and not long ago I wrote about a quite decent representative of this growing product family Seafile. In Radio-T podcast we’ve also discussed similar topics more than once or twice and mentioned today’s hero BitTorrent Sync in detail, but taking a thoughtful look at it one more time will probably be useful.
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Searching for the Right Task Lists. Where to Turn?
Jun 05, 2013 |
I’m not a fanatic or even a warm supporter of various magical tools and super-methodologies that “will help you achieve success and live right” and of course magically improve your process (whatever you do) so much that the result becomes unimportant.
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Seafile for Home Cloud
Mar 26, 2013 |
After I got a taste of Dropbox and especially after we all started to realize that Dropbox is far from ideal and keeping personal data there is risky, various thoughts arose, including how to set up my own personal Dropbox replacement/supplement.
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Micro-service for Dropping All Kinds of Stuff
Feb 06, 2013 |
Services where you can drop any file and then give the link to all interested parties are a dime a dozen. Starting with Dropbox paired with, for example, Dropzone and ending with a mass of all kinds of “all-in-one” solutions like Droplr, CloudApp and many other varieties.
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Radio on RPi
Jan 01, 2013 |
I’ve attached sound to my Pi, and now I’m trying to make a web-controlled internet radio receiver out of it. Everything already works, i.e., the chassis is in place. There’s not much to write about really, a small web wrapper over the player and mixer that I screwed together in 10 minutes.
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Project "book" – First Pancake
Dec 30, 2012 |
This is the first pancake of a project under the working title “book”, my better half’s project. Knowing no peace or rest, this dedicated woman is making her way through my not-very-literary speech, through the dubious sound quality of the first episodes, through the terms I initially overused.
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Raspberry Pi
Dec 28, 2012 |
Today they delivered my Raspberry Pi — a very small, single-board almost-like-real computer. This is model B, 512M. As I wrote on my twitter everything together, including the computer itself ($35), transparent plastic case ($18) and WiFi-USB ($12) with quick delivery and taxes came out to $80.
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Letter to the Dear Editor
Dec 20, 2012 |
Today I decided to try to improve the world a bit in the simplest way — by giving advice. After all, the 21st century is here, ships plow… and here’s a problem with delivering killed trees. In my opinion, my proposals are quite reasonable and the idea is very sound, agree?
If there’s anyone close to the journal’s body, let them know about your support for this idea, maybe they’ll listen and get it.
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Support, it's sometimes like that.
Dec 19, 2012 |
The topic of support services for different products and services is rich material for grumbling and being malicious, which I’m going to do once again. I often tell about such things in my podcast but here I wanted to include original quotes, for greater clarity of the absurdity that exists around us.
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