Alex Stetsenko

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.

NoSQL East Conference 2009 summary has been published recently. So called tail includes links to feedback posts as well as some photos.

Also video and slides are available for only three talks:

• Cliff Moon – Dynomite,
• John Willis – Keynote,
• and Mike Miller – CouchDB

but more to come.

P.S.: seems like NoSQL (No SQL) might be converted to NOSQL (Not Only SQL). Will see how things are going to develop around NoSQL community.

Update: More video became available:

• Justin Sheehy – Riak,
• Arin Sarkissian – Cassandra,
• Kyle Banker – MongoDB,
• Tim Anglade – Tin,
• Kevin Weil – Pig,
• Chris Curtin – Cascading,
• Kevin Smith – Redis.

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It is sad that James Cameron did not direct Terminator 3 and 4. But after some years in the shadow he is back with the huge exciting project. A new extended version of Avatar trailer has become available. It is coming to movie theaters in December.

Pretty impressive music video made by students at Quebec University in just one take. They had more than 100 students involved but it took about a month to organize.

SAT Vocabulary was selected by Cellular South to be promoted on their Online Discover Center (Lifestyle section).

It’s been a while since it was published. But downloads number still grow as well as active installs ratio is not bad (65%). In the mean time I am starting to work on version 2.0 for Android 2.0 🙂 .

At the first look preview of Law Abiding Citizen seems to be just a good typical thriller – a ‘good’ guy takes revenge on ‘bad’ guys. However the movie turned out a little bit different and even the distinction between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ guys was washed out.

I would say Law Abiding Citizen is the first movie for a long time without obvious finale. Until last minutes I was not sure what was going to happen to Gerard Butler’s character. Well… perhaps I have been watching wrong movies… But anyway this one managed to keep me intent 1hr 48min 🙂 .

P.S.: the movie was not rated R for no reason. There are some moments not for all audiences.