This year, on the recommendation of colleagues from the club of IT company directors, I went to the ABIS business school. It came at just the right time: after all, I’m an expert in IT technologies, because I spent five years studying at KhIRE, and then another three years …

In 2015, quality internet finally appeared on city streets in the country: 3G. The mobile operators bought licenses to use the frequencies for crazy billions of hryvnias. The equipment, I think, costs no less.

On the one hand, that’s good: for 15 UAH a month I get several megabits …

On October 31, the second meeting of the “Python at APVT” club took place. The meeting was held in room 318 of the APVT department from 11:15 to 12:50.

We discussed how the first week of the Coursera course had gone. It turned out that some of the …

While Amazon is making $500 million in net profit a quarter from the cloud, Hewlett-Packard is shutting down its public cloud. The other day I got this email:

In short, on January 31, 2016, Hewlett-Packard will stop providing public cloud services — basically, shut down your servers and download your data …

One of the tips for lecturers is to connect with the audience by asking questions. As a student, I found myself in situations where I gave a suitable answer, and the instructor would say “wrong” and wait for other answers. Back then I thought: “What an asshole, I answered correctly …

The thesis comes to a student twice. The first time is in the fall, in a light, euphoric form, inspiring and bright, bringing joy and hope for the better.

In May, the thesis comes to a student in a heavy form, binding them in cold terror, leaving no choice and …

Happy Knowledge Day, by the way. This season I’ll be teaching two courses at KhNURE for the third time already:

1. Mobile Platform Programming.
2. Cloud Computing, Systems, and Networks.

In the first one we discuss the Objective-C language, Foundation, Cocoa Touch, interfaces, working with the network, databases, testing. 28 hours …

In August 2014, a flash mob appeared on the internet whose goal was to raise donations to fight the still-incurable disease ALS, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The flash mob works according to the following algorithm: one person accepts a challenge (passes the baton) from one person, nominates the next three, makes …

This year the whole world is marking the 50th anniversary of the first human flight into space. On April 12, 1961, Soviet citizen Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin made a flight into space aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft—he orbited the Earth in 108 minutes.

A long time ago, I found one very …

Hey, you! Yes, I’m talking to you! Do you even watch where you’re stepping? What did you just step on?

A manhole cover. An ordinary sewer manhole cover. And how many kinds of manhole covers can you name? Two? Three?

Today a colleague from Wikipedia tossed me a …