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Trying out Skillshare

Last Friday was a Skillshare day – and it was fantastic! I took a personal day from work to attend the Skillshare Penny conference (first ever), and boy, was it great! I’ll cover the conference in a separate post, and here wanted to recap the experience of taking classes through Skillshare. All Friday classes were [...]

 

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Mongo meetup april: quick notes

Excellent mongo meetup again – their meetups are always informative and have good presenters, today all three were great. 1) Custom shard balancer from GameChanger 2) Mongolian – node.js driver for mongo by Marcello 3) Variety – schema analyzer for mongo by James Cropcho I especially enjoyed Marcello’s and James’ presentations, because both of them [...]

 

 

 

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Hosting update: problem resolved

Well, of course it turned to be that hosting was not an issue. Someone found a hole in one of the test sites I’ve had there and sneaked in a pretty interesting script, in Chinese! I had a good laugh once I found it: chinese script injecting redirects to Russian sites, pretty darn cool, isn’t [...]

 

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In search of new hosting

I’ve been staying on the same hosting provider for years now just because it’s cheap, worked OK, and there was no real need to change it. However, big disappointment – something that I just discovered by chance: all htaccess files were hijacked and a bunch of weird redirects were added to the top and bottom [...]

 

 

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Learning Ruby

A couple of weeks ago I stumbled upon classes offered at General Assembly, and one of them was a 3-hour class on Ruby. So of course I had to sign up! I don’t necessarily want to become a Ruby developer, but I’ve always wanted to at least know the basics and how it works and [...]

 

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Review of SXSW 2012

Austin, TX March 9 – March 11, 2012 Everyone and their grandma already knows what the conference is about. Some bits I’ve heard: “spring break for nerds”, “pure awesomeness”, “if you’re a somebody in tech industry you have to be there”. All of those are true. But the conference is VERY popular, so be prepared [...]