| The “Second Wave” of Web Design | Stanislav Ogryzkov |
| December 28, 2011 | |
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This is a thankless task, trying to classify something, structure, write a chronology, etc. – in many cases the results are too ambiguous. Even evolutional biologists still do not agree on species’ definition borders, so we should stay modest… However, I will try to emphasize some “second wave” of the modern web design. |
| Experience of Using OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office, Comparison and Evaluation of the Possible Replacement | Stanislav Ogryzkov |
| December 19, 2011 | |
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The article describes the experience of using OpenOffice.org (mostly) and LibreOffice (partially) instead of Microsoft Office, as part of the in-house experiment of comparing them and evaluating according to the criterion of replaceability (determining critical and non-critical features of the open-source analogs). |
| Multi-Variant Identification with Loginza | Stanislav Ogryzkov |
| December 16, 2011 | |
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The given article is the continuation of the talking on trusted network identification of users on a website, particularly using the multi-variant identification Loginza, which is also an OpenId provider. |
| Decentralized Identification with OpenId | Stanislav Ogryzkov |
| December 15, 2011 | |
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The given article is the continuation of the talking on implementing user registration on a website, particularly using the external mechanism of trusted network identification called OpenId. |
| Trusted Network Identification | Stanislav Ogryzkov |
| December 14, 2011 | |
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The given article is the continuation of the talking on implementing user registration on a website, particularly regarding the implementation variants that use external mechanisms (OpenId and LiveId). |
| Some Aspects of Implementing User Registration on a Website | Stanislav Ogryzkov |
| December 13, 2011 | |
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Though some people offer to prohibit anonymity on the Internet due to security reasons, it is not so dangerous but is simply convenient. The most of the Internet resources mostly works well for anonymous surfers. And if anonymity was a benefit of your website, and once you have decided to implement registration and authentication of your visitors (users), there must be significant reasons for that. The given article observes some aspects of such a new feature. |
| Internet Driven Improvement of Human Nature | Sergey Pyatigorskiy |
| May 16, 2011 | |
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The Internet makes us better. I am serious. You say it makes us stupid? Yes, maybe we tend to be more stupid, our brains get slower and lazier, but anyway at that we become better. The Internet just bites off part of our personality, and we happen to lose not the best part of ourselves.
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| Business Model Change Required | Sergey Pyatigorskiy |
| May 11, 2011 | |
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Basically business is about exchanging something for something: grain for meet, food for clothes, trinkets for gold or for Manhattan, gold for banknotes, services for money, etc. Simplest possible way of organizing business is implemented in robbery: You save your life for giving to your business partner all valuable things you have with you at the moment you are arranged in this deal. It’s really simple: no printed agreement, no multipage requirements, no long lasting relationships – just a knife or a gun being exposed, and that’s it, deal is done. However, very few of us agree to be involved in such a business, so for centuries people have been designing and implementing more and more detailed and sophisticated means of regulating business relationships. All these rules and requirements about how business should be done, which documents should be singed between parties, what kind of reports should be provided to the state authorities, etc., are intended to make business relationships as safe as possible – safe from fraud, from inadequate behavior, from unjustified risks, etc. |
| The power of “The” | Sergey Pyatigorskiy |
| April 28, 2011 | |
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I have never come across any information about how usage of definite article can affect market. At that, such an influence can sometimes become very, very efficient. |
| (2be OR 2outsource) OR NOT (2be OR 2outsource). That is the question | Sergey Pyatigorskiy |
| January 31, 2011 | |
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Fortunately, most often the dilemma does not look like “To outsource or not to be”. However, it easily might sound like “To outsource or not to grow”, and that is a real issue. Why are we so afraid to outsource software development? Okay, maybe not afraid, let’s say we are cautious and uneasy about outsourcing. Anyway, it does not really matter how we name our feelings that result in avoiding outsourcing. The avoidance matters. Is this avoidance justified or not? Is it right or wrong? Do we lose or win?
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| AddThis as the First Step to a Website’s “Socialization” | Stanislav Ogryzkov |
| October 27, 2010 | |
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The article is about the AddThis web component that helps to “socialize” any website, i. e. to “make friends” with social networks, blogosphere and the Web 2.0 in general. |
| Fishing by Inreco LAN | Stanislav Ogryzkov |
| September 02, 2010 | |
| Before this, no one could suspect that Inreco LAN was practicing fishing. :-) However, the times are changing, and one day fishes appeared at Inreco LAN, too. :-) |
| Creating tasks in the Redmine by Receiving emails from POP3 server | Irina Lager |
| July 24, 2010 | |
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Redmine allows users to create issues based on received e-mail messages. Yes, it is really great when the user's complaint automatically gets into the Redmine as an issue - bug, ticket or something else. However, as it often happens (especially with open source projects) the way to enable this feature is a little bit tricky. So here I'm going to share my experience of turning on this feature in Redmine.
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| Facing Crisis. Facing About in Business Behavior | Sergey Pyatigorskiy |
| March 17, 2010 | |
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What’s good in crisis, it helps us to get rid of unnecessary things, habits and rules. Let’s take an example of common life. For instance, I am used to visit a Starbucks once a day to sit there sipping a coffee and thinking about how to set the world to rights. Now imagine I’ve got a problem that requires all my attention. What about my everyday visits to Starbucks? |
| Facing Crisis 2. Rules of Promotion | Sergey Pyatigorskiy |
| February 17, 2010 | |
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In the context of this narrative it makes sense to divide lifecycle of any company into two types: normal periods of time and crisis time periods, these time spaces changing one another more and more frequently during recent decades. |
| Facing Crisis | Sergey Pyatigorskiy |
| February 12, 2010 | |
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One of the most popular subjects in the Web is still the world financial crisis. Quite understandable why: directly or indirectly it affects lives of billions of people. And, no doubt, we are among those billions. Saying “we” I now mean those involved in business, more precisely – into software development business and software development outsourcing. |
| Things to remember about installer development | Irina Lager |
| November 25, 2009 | |
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Developers have to choose what and how to present to users, when they are developing software product. The most usual form of the software distribution on Windows operation systems is installation (or setup) program. |
| Presumption of intellect | Sergey Pyatigorskiy |
| August 24, 2009 | |
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I’d like to talk about yet another obvious public trend, opposite to the main vogue in choosing SLCM for a software development project. |
| Rules for Agile wanted | Sergey Pyatigorskiy |
| August 02, 2009 | |
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Agile, Lean, Kanban and kindred software practices present different variations on the same theme: How to do software development more effective, i.e. how to provide customers’ happiness with more confidence. |
| Sudden stupid decisions with grave consequences | Sergey Pyatigorskiy |
| July 23, 2009 | |
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Recently I happened to see a new Ice Age movie: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Well done, with nice and cute characters, but stuffed with absolutely stupid jokes. What a disappointment! |
