Engineering porn (click)

Posted on September 4, 2008

Chrome and FF 3.1

Posted on September 3, 2008

When we wrote the MixMaster web-app with huge javascript UI, we had to switch from IE and FF to Safari, because it’s JavaScript engine is literally 3 times faster. But it looks like, we will soon have a wave of new reach web apps:

Quote from my pm

“Google did it again. The just launched a beta of their new browser, and it is extremly good. I predict great things for the browser in the near future.

Rafal tested it with MixMaster and their javascript engine is even faster than Safari’s :) They do use webkit as well for the rendering.

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ It is a very interristing read on the development process.”

And new FF 3.1 will also have an order of magnitude faster javascript engine
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/

Using instance messager to control remote computer

Posted on August 26, 2008

Using IM to start/stop remote services and run and capture application with jabber client like google talk is easy, here is a very simple application I wrote to control my TODO application. Source code

Git branch in Vim tabline

Posted on August 24, 2008

Vim is an ultimate editor:

http://github.com/igouss/dotfiles/commit/30e34fafa188f58189357f884f2712422be6853a#diff-1

Shame that I can’t really program it.

Billing

Posted on August 19, 2008

The second most rewarding part of the consulting is billing ;-) I use freshbooks.com, it’s easy to use and very convenient for me and my clients.

• Send an invoise in email, PDF or regular mail ($1.39)
• Send bills for fixed price project, per-hour, recurring or one-time.
• You have and access to all your billing history

.net project reflections

Posted on August 18, 2008

We finished the active project development phase and its is now in maintenance mode, so for future reference, here are the tools we used.

• Visual Studio
  • Good IDE, not as good as Intellij IDEA but pleasure to code with IntelliJ resharper plugin.
  • (Some people also used VisualSVN plugin  with it, but it has some bugs in it.)
• Resharper
  • Plugin for VS 2008. Provides IDEA shortcuts, code analysis, excellent refactoring support, test runner and much more. Worth the price.
• Teamcity
  • Continuous integration server. Build agents can on different computers, reports, VS2008 and Windows integration. Can be used to build any type of software (java + ant, .net with nant or msbuild etc). Free for most projects. Try it and use it.
• NAnt + msbuild
  • call msbuild generated by VS2008 to compile the project and the rest is coded in nant. Does not have some essential tasks, like string replacement in file, but easy to write one when needed.
• Subversion + TortoiseSVN
  • The more I use subversion, the less I like it. I would really like to have local commit, less directory pollution, better merging, and faster common operations.
• CommitMonitor
  • Tool to monitor and review team commits
• MS SQL Server + SQL Server Management Studio
• NVelovity + Castle Monorail
  • much better then ASP.net
• ExtJS
  • Javascript UI and Ajax library. We designed very complex UI with it. Some screens are slow to load.
• ASComm PLC Driver.
• eVision pattern matcher
  • Used it in a factory and in a warehouse and it works well in changing lighting coditions. Most of the time it has 99% success rate.
• Newton JSON
• NUnit
• Rhino Mocks
  • initially i tried to use it, but we moved toward integration tests. (now it takes ~1 hour to run them)
• Quartz
• Firebug
• Castle ActiveRecord
  • Really convenient, but sooner or later we will have to optimise the queries it generates by default.

By popular demand

Posted on August 17, 2008

When conducting interview of my blog’s audience, I found that nobody cares what I write as long as I write often. This post is here for this reason only.

War

Posted on August 10, 2008

there is a lot of propaganda from both sides, so if you want to check russian side and form an opinion check http://russianonline.tv/index.php?newsid=15 right now they are showing damage done to the city by georgian army

(http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2042&updaterx=2008-08-12+12%3A32%3A04 good video)

Russia joins South Ossetian war

Posted on August 8, 2008

Small border conflict escalated into a war between Georgia on one side and my idiot country and S.Ossetia on another. Why the fuck did they started it??  http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Russia_joins_South_Ossetian_war

Good thing that few years ago they both contries decreased numbed of soldiers in compulsory service so at least most of the soldiers involved will be professional military and not regular guys who could not go or failed at university.

Oh my god, two more years!!!

Posted on July 10, 2008

July 10, 2008

Dear Mr. Goussev:

On behalf of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, I am pleased to inform you that after careful assessment of your application, you have been granted admission to the Graduate Master of Applied Computer Science program in Concordia University, as a full-time student for the term beginning September 2008. Please accept my congratulations on your successful application.

Additional information about the program to which you have been admitted and any conditions that apply to your admission will be found on the attached Offer of Admission.

I take this opportunity to welcome you to Concordia University and wish you every success in your studies. If you have any questions, or wish to discuss your acceptance, please do not hesitate to contact one of the department or faculty advisors (contact information located on page 2).

Given your achievements, potential and academic intent, the Faculty believes that your academic interests will be well served by this program. I send you my very best wishes for success in your graduate studies.
Yours sincerely,
Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Research

July 10, 2008
Offer of Admission

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