Alex Stetsenko

Although it is important I believe not many people bother themselves to read things like privacy policy. So keep in mind this line of MySQL Privacy Policy:

MySQL’s personnel and entrusted third parties may have access to the personal information you provide to us on a need-to-know basis from any country in which MySQL’s personnel is located.

And it is not a precaution ‘just in case’. Not only MySQL sales will start e-mailing or even calling you but their partners too. As soon as you subscribe for a webinar, ‘partners’ will get your contact data. Some of them have unsubscribe feature though unlike MySQL’s newsletters where unsubscribe means to change greeting from ‘Hello Alex’ to ‘Hello CONTACT_NAME’.

However I don’t really want to sound negative. MySQL webinars are very interesting and important for self-education. It is always helpful not only to listen to others experience but be able to ask questions some Chief DBA or VP of Engineering directly.

Just be aware what information to share – forewarned is forearmed.

Joel Spolsky shared his ingenious formula on how to build a company where the best software developers want to work with the world.

It is extremely simple though.

Fortunately not only Fog Creek Software uses this approach.

It is always interesting to see how other universities teach their students.
Thanks to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) open courseware – lecture #1 of ‘Introduction to Computer Science and Programming’ (Fall 2008) is available online. This lecture (53.5 minutes) covers goals of the course, what is computation, introduction to data types, operators, and variables.

Sometimes it could be very convenient just to listen instead of sitting and watching. Especially if it is an interview or a lecture.

There is a very simple and fast service Media Converter which supports not only YouTube and allow to convert files up to 100Mb for free.

P.S.: there were bigger ones…

It turned out that my new keyboard does not have the context menu key:

That’s why I was curious if there is any shortcut to open the right click context menu. Sometimes it is very convenient to be able to open context menu using keyboard. It was simple to find the right one.

The answer is: Shift+F10 (for Windows).

Everybody knows Skype, everybody recommends Skype. For sure I have been using Skype for years and has been talking for hours. My first video call was with Skype. Undoubtedly it is excellent application for a voice and video communication.

But it is going to be quite expensive if you need to make calls to a regular phone. That is where 12Viop could help. First of all their rates are twice lower (of course it varies depending on destination country). Second, it is possible to test it for free by making calls to various popular destinations. Third, 12Voip allows to make calls via regular phone with the Phone-to-Phone feature.

However bad news are that their rates are in euro which means that price may vary.

Enjoy your calls whatever application you use!

A new version of ACDSee Pro Photo Manager has been announced recently. The most interesting part that it is going to be supplemented by an online mode which allows to store and share 2Gb of photos on the ACDSee Online website.

Definitely it promised to be unbeatable solution for professional photographers. I am pretty sure that this new product of ACD Systems, Inc. will
make Google and Yahoo feel uncomfortable even while it is in beta stage.

P.S.: don’t miss the opportunity to sign up and get exclusive invite to the Beta!