When I was discovering ONLamp.com I’ve found a quite interesting article “Art and Computer Programming”. The author John Littler asked many famous programmers (Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++ etc) about can we consider programming like art. It’s funny but I thought about the same question some time ago :). Well, as I expected the opinions disjointed. One […]
Problem With Site
Yesterday we had some problems with our web server. Thanks to Leonid who resolved the biggest part of them. Now my site works in general. But I’m still trying to move to wordpress. Hope it’ll be done next week.
World Premier of “War of the Worlds”
Wednesday, 29 June in Rio Cinema and K-Cineplex will be a world premiere of a Steven Spielberg film “War of the Worlds”. The key role in that movie is played by Tom Cruise. The story is based on H.G. Wells novel of the same name and it’s about war between spiteful aliens and earthlings. The story already was made into a movie in 1953 – […]
Passed LCCI Higher Exam
I’d like to congratulate my dear wife Maria who passed LCCI (London Chamber of Commerce and Industry International Qualifications) Higher Exam with credit! She’s studied for two years and finally she’s got that significant certificate! I’m very very proud of her achievements. And I love her very much! Now Maria needs to have some rest. Because it’s difficult to study if you also should work […]
Magic Of PHP
When I started to customize SugarCRM I needed to study PHP againg. Because my last PHP project was four years ago. So, I found some strange notation of creation of PHP objects: $obj = & new SomeObjest(); I asked guys who work with me and have experience with PHP about sign “&“. But unfortunatelly, nobody could to explain me meaning of that construction. Recently, I […]
Measurement of time with change Windows passwords
In our company all employees should change they Windows password every some small period to make a good security. Windows server remember 18(!) previous passwords. So, everybody spend some time to create a new one which shouldn’t similar as old one. I work under Linux and get to know about my password going to expire or already has expired when I login to Windows terminal […]
The First SuperBingo Prize
Yesterday I and Maria played in SuperBingo. We ordered four cards (one for each color: green, yellow, blue and pink) by mobile phone . Our favourite color was yellow because we won with yellow card our first SuperBingo prize – 8CYP :). Remember that the first showball was won exactly on yellow card! So, it was not bad: we spent 4CYP and won 8CYP. We […]
Encoding missunderstanding
Yesterday I was a little bit confused. I needed to do a very simple task: to import data from CSV file to the database. One guy sent me two files with data which were created in MS Excel and than saved as CSV. I stored both files in my Linux machine and imported the first one without any problems using a simple Perl script. I […]