Posts Tagged ‘personal’
January 12th, 2010
Hey there! Hope you all had a good rest and a fab time during your holidays. As you might have guessed, I did. I celebrated New Year in Italy! It was a 7-day stay at Rimini, from where we travelled to Venice, Florence and Rome. The New Year party was awesome, although the rain has probably ruined it for some of us. The good news is that we didn’t catch a cold ;)
We ate a lot of pizza and pasta, those were terrific, so I must have gained a few kilos (finally). Below are a few shots taken in Venice and Rome:
Not much photos eh? Well, our camera broke in Florence, so we weren’t able to take any pictures there, but then again, there’s not much to see ;) So, the holidays are over and we’re all back to work. Must be tough for some people, but not me. I’ve recently switched to a new place (still in Moscow), major startup where I’ll be doing even more web development than I used to at the old place, so this year we’ll cover more cloud computing topics, website design techniques and SEO goodies ;) and of course WordPress.
The huge plans for this year involve multi-instance Amazon Web Services (clustering and load balancing), perhaps a few shots at Amazon SimpleDB and of course the almost finished WordPress plugin for Twitter control that I planned back in November last year.
So, good luck to everyone and have a productive 2010!
September 14th, 2009
Foller.me Becomes Mashup of the Day
Wow this is so awesome. I received an e-mail this morning and here’s what it said:
Dear kovshenin,
Your mashup Foller.me has now been published on ProgrammableWeb. You can see it
here: http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup/foller.me
It is also our Mashup of the Day for 09/13/2009. Congratulations! It will be on
the front page of ProgrammableWeb today.
Thank you for submitting your application and sharing it with our community.
Best regards,
The ProgrammableWeb Team
Well I’m not sure if there’s anything else I should add. I’m so excited that we finally made it to ProgrammableWeb – the best resource around for APIs and Mashups! Hope to see our API there too in a couple of months, meanwhile feel free to rate us: Foller.me at ProgrammableWeb.com.
Update: Thank you, thank you, you’re far too kind! Heh, take a look at this tweet I got mentioned in a few hours ago:
@kovshenin, thanks for the note, we’ve just listed Foller.me API on ProgrammableWeb
That does it. Foller.me has now been listed on ProgrammableWeb’s API directory. Awesome! Check it out: Foller.me API at ProgrammableWeb.
August 24th, 2009
Hello my friends! Yes, I’m finally back from my two-week vacation. It was awesome, I spent a week in Magnitogorsk and another one in Sochi. The weather was great, it only rained on Sunday, when I was on my way back. Everything went fine, I’ve seen all my friends, we had a great time. Sochi is okay, getting ready for year 2014, though their airport in Adler still sucks big time!
Anyways, back to Moscow and back to work, and today I’d like to introduce a new feature in the Twitter Friendly Links plugin for WordPress. I call it the Alphanumeric mode, or format, or whatever. You see, people are used to TinyURL and bit.ly, where links are hashed and alphanumeric most of the time. I used a simple base 32 encoding algorithm in my case, plus added a few thousand, so that the links wouldn’t be shorter than three symbols. Not very nice to see example.com/a I guess.. Right? The Generic mode is still there and switched on by default for all the retro guys like me ;) Yes, I do prefer numbers and I know bit.ly would if they hadn’t hosted thousands of new links every day.
Also, I removed the rev=canonical option cause it’s pretty much outdated and encourage you to use the rel=shortlink HTML and HTTP headers, and rel=canonical too, as encouraged by wordpress.org. By the way, it’s pretty cool to see wordpress.com blogs get shortened links by wp.me as announced here: WP.me – shorten your links and they too support shortlink relations (both HTML and HTTP), which was why I decided to stick to them. Right, as Sam Johnston mentioned in the comments, that made over 7 million blogs accept the shortlink relations. Twitter clients should now be thinking about plugging that into the clients. It would make linking much easier, although may be a little more traffic consuming.
Or what if the guys from Twitter would.. Arrgh, hell no =) Impossible…
P.S. Hope you switched to WordPress 2.8.4 in time before the massive password reset attacks ;) I’m kidding, there were no massive attacks.. I guess =)
I’m so glad to be back. Have a great day everyone!
August 12th, 2009
Okay folks, after years of hard work around the clock, I’ve finally got some time off, so yes, this is my first vacation ever. It all started last Saturday when I took off to Magnitogorsk to see my relatives. I’m actually having a great time here and the weather is pretty cool, but I’m leaving to Sochi this Saturday for one more week and then back to Moscow and of course, back to work ;)
Hope you all miss me and hope to bring you some sunny photos in a few weeks :)
August 7th, 2009
My brand new creation: The Foller.me Theme for WordPress and I ain’t releasing it public ;)
