A week ago I finished reading “Scrum and XP from the Trenches: How We Do Scrum” by Henrik Kniberg. It turned out to be a good follow-up to “Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time” by Jeff Sutherland, which is more about the philosophy of …

We continue the topic of the degradation of domestic education and society as a whole, raised in the post How to Become a Certified Moron for 2700 UAH.

An unknown woman wrote to me with an offer to start writing student papers to order: term papers, essays, theses.

I went …

I’m the kind of person who watches ads (and they work on me) and reads spam.

Recently an email landed in my inbox offering to order a diploma in the humanities for just 2,700 UAH ($115). Humanities people have it better here than techies: according to students, an …

This spring, for the fourth time already (jeez, how time flies), I’ll be teaching two courses at KhNURE:

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 of lectures …

On April 12, 1961, citizen of the Soviet Union Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft, made a flight into space — he orbited the Earth in 108 minutes.

A long time ago, I found a very beautiful speech by Yuri Gagarin on Red Square in Moscow. Please have a listen …

Today, April 12, 2014, at 11:00, the mass start of the Kharkiv Marathon began. Races of 42 km, 21 km, 10 km, 5 km, and 3 km.

I’m running the 21 km distance. You can see the race route on the website http://kharkivmarathon.com/martshryt.html

With …

The success of a software project can be judged by two characteristics: a) quality; b) delivery time. If one of these characteristics is unsatisfactory, several interesting questions arise:

1. How conscientiously does the developer perform their duties?
2. How competent is the developer?

If a project manager doesn’t have a technical …

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 …

Bless, O Lord, my computer for the successful installation of the first service pack for Visual Studio; deliver the installer from the evil one and grant rest to the souls of the temporary files. Amen!

The service pack installer is competently made. As the components are downloaded, they start getting …

09/16/2010–09/20/2010

I don’t get to Saint Petersburg often. The last time was in the summer of 2008, for a concert by the vocal-instrumental ensemble Metallica. This time I went to the conference “East-West. Design and Diagnostics — 2010” to give a talk on the synthesis …