The most important guideline when writing code is to separate method implementations with several blank lines and a comment line. Despite modern IDEs’ capabilities for searching and structuring source code, visual orientation still plays an important role.
Consider the example below. There is an implementation of a class in Objective-C …
The other day, the Kharkiv office of EchoStar turned five. Back then, in 2007, the company’s team was formed mostly from students, graduate students, and staff of the Faculty of Computer Engineering and Control at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics. We worked with some of them, studied with …
I usually don’t talk to taxi drivers. But today he started it.
“Look, they didn’t get the roads done for Euro 2012, even though he promised he’d do everything! What will foreigners think when they see this? This is our home, what will they think of us …
And I completely forgot!
Funny how their calendar shows December 2012.
Could it really be the end?
So we were promised that electronic “books” would kill paper books. But in practice it turned out that electronic “books” killed layout, typography, design, illustrations, common sense, eyesight, but not paper books.
Looking death in the face isn’t as scary as looking at the gray screen of an electronic …
Every now and then various corporations publish shorts about the future: “What will things be like with information technology after the 2012 presidential election in the Russian Federation?” The latest film is published by Microsoft.
Productivity Future Vision (2011)
A few weeks after watching it, I came across the musings …
Reader Maxim asked me to write some notes about the usability of the user interface in Eclipse.
Dear Maxim!
I haven’t yet managed to take advantage of all the benefits of the integrated development environment “Eclipse,” version 3.7.1, item M20110909-1335, because for two hours straight now I …
This week I filmed an ad for an LSD TV.
The kids are thrilled with LSD. Especially the one on the right.
