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Why do we use Firebase

23/09/2019

Our programmers indeed can solve almost any technical problems related with mobile applications. By its nature programmers love to build everything...

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How to make 7 perpendicular lines or don’t think flat!

12/12/2018

This is as an answer to the previous post video. For me is a good inspiration that there is nothing impossible to solve! And still... is it possib...

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Cyprus: Web site development

12/12/2018

Search engine friendly and good looking on mobile devices website Stable, secure and easy to use CMS Logo and company style design SEO and onlin...

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Swellsy Photo

22/04/2016

The idea of the app was created by my wife. She likes to make pictures. And she is addicted Instagram user. Many times she asked me to make a phot...

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Some of my projects

18/12/2015

I just love programming :) I do it more than 10 years now! My favorite now is native iOS and Android. Also, sometimes I do cross platform or hybrid...

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Objective-C Memory Management Essentials by Maxim Vasilkov

25/03/2015

Objective-C Memory Management Essentials Learn and put into practice various memory management techniques in Objective-C to create robust iOS ...

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How to Make Friends and Influence People

10/02/2015

This is a master piece from Dale Carnegie. Wikipedia says: How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the first bestselling self-help bo...

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Business and creativity – have to separate!

18/12/2014

Note! To solve other people's problems and implement the ideas of others - it is your business, but to create your own projects and realize your id...

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Programming methodologies

03/12/2014

XP: With regard to extreme programming, the proverb says - "safe thing will not be called extreme." Short cycles "Delivery" - is extreme, yes, but...

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Read fast!

24/11/2014

How to read fast? Nowadays there are plenty of good books about speed reading. And one of them you can download here (The Speed Reading Monster ...

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The Bitcoin scripting language

20/10/2014

Continue the previous post thought, I found bitcoin is ready for the escrow-like payments. Read: You might expect that a Bitcoin transaction is si...

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Block chain bloat – micro-transactions problem

10/10/2014

The problem is good described in the following quote: Another problem is that with so many small transactions, the bitcoin block chain could, at s...

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Where is Apache PHP error logs?

11/09/2014

Sometimes something goes wrong on the server and you want quickly take a look PHP logs, the command to remember in this case is: tail -f /var/log/...

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How to create IFrame application in Vk?

22/07/2014

VK applications development is not very different with creating application for Facebook or to Web application development in general. This is post...

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Git tag-ing (and about GitHub on Mac)

17/07/2014

Most of the time I'm looking for this little command line, format of which I forget all the time..:) git tag -a v0.1 -m "Creating my first...

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It is not easy to be an expert :)

17/07/2014

To understand why so, watch this video: It is not rare when customer does not understand what he is asking about. Indeed I remember many stori...

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The thing which IT startuppers have to learn

16/06/2014

The idea, I will talk about, is not mine. I get it from Vladimir Zhukov The matter is not that this person is very authoritative, just the ...

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How to work with people to build a great business

16/06/2014

1. Work with people for a long term Taking any action, always think about what effect it will have on your long-term relationships with people. ...

The Ten Rules of a Zen Programmer

14/06/2014

There are things which was not told us in a school, the things about life. How to live this life properly. The text below I copied to my blog but b...

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Pair programming

12/02/2014

I remember my very first time pair programming. I disliked it very much... But mow I changed and I'm very happy when I have a possibility to do a ...

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Dale Carnegie fun club

24/11/2013

In this post - How to become a Friendlier Person. Like the page - keep in touch and you will be able to download all the books of Dale Carnegie!

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“The Art of Public Speaking” by Dale Carnegie

24/11/2013

Good communication can make everything easier. This book by Dale Carnegie is as true and helpful today as when it was written almost a century ago....

How to add an app to your Facebook fan page

19/11/2013

Open this url in your browser replacing YOURAPPID and YOURDOMAIN with your values respectively. I put it here as a reminder for myself. From time t...

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Custom application development

03/11/2013

I live now here on Cyprus and can suggest custom application development. This can be desktop application development: Apple Mac OS X, Windows, Lin...

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Create site on Cyprus

03/11/2013

The first place where tourists try to find information about services or goods is Internet. How to improve your site? They just don't have another ...

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How to find a proper iOS developer

28/10/2013

Well, note I did not say, best iOS developer or experienced or even professional iOS developer. Most of the cases I saw in my life, best choice is ...

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Don’t worry to be effective and happy :)

10/10/2013

Did not you ever hear: "Don't worry, be happy!"? Stress and extra emotions makes your body to waste energy and blocking your brain for effective wo...

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Power of positive thinking

08/10/2013

I think positively. I'm sure 100% :) And it's true, because 80% of what a person is that what that person thinks about itself itself :p But anyway...

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IT projects fails – statistics

12/09/2013

Statistics is a hard thing. By IBM research more than a half of IT projects fails. Only 40% of projects meet schedule, budget and quality goals. T...

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While won every fight lost a war

05/09/2013

Imagine a situation when you have a few well educated and quit experienced programmers and the project which technically could be done by any of th...

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Adobe Photoshop CS 5

24/06/2013

Adobe Photoshop CS5 f0r Windows and Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Mac All rights are property of Adobe. You can buy these products on ...

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Why to create an App on VK, Facebook or Google+

22/06/2013

Typically, developers of social games have one of the following reasons: 1. Create a game with a very new but simple and ingenious mechanics. Be...

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Time Management for Programmers

22/06/2013

Programmer is mostly required to be smart and sometimes even creative for the "top"... But what we have instead? lol :) Rushing all the time and...

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Steve Jobs will broken?

18/06/2013

There are many talks around new iOS 7 look. And mostly people don't like the change. For me being Android user by faith ;) - this fact is interesti...

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VPS which I use

04/06/2013

Support quality is A+++ It's young business located physically in Ukraine. They are really care about customers. The Universe is made so, that i...

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Creativity and Productivity

14/05/2013

Who is creative - earns much, who solves not trivial and complex problems - earns much. And yes, now I speak about software developers, thou, who w...

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Vendor-prefixed CSS Properties

08/05/2013

Next to having four seperate pages for the major rendering engines, this page shows a clearer overview of the implemented, prefixed properties, and...

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How to make Photoshop to be English

19/04/2013

I'm native russian speaker but i prefer to use Adobe Photoshop in English. Sometimes you get computer with preinstalled Photoshop or whatever a sit...

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NTFS on Mac OS Lion for free: NTFS-3G

07/11/2012

Just not to forget :) http://macinformers.com/how-to-NTFS-3G-support-for-macosx-lion/

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Cocos2d: how to move along the circle without funky CCBezierBy

07/05/2012

I got a problem to make a Cocos2D animation where some sprites have to move along a circle. Quick googling gave me some links on advices to use CCB...

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Creating apps in VK

17/04/2012

VK nowadays is biggest European social network btw. To have an account there is good idea already because of fact - there you can listen for your f...

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My Money On Tree project

23/03/2012

My pleasure is to introduce you to one of my most exciting projects. It’s social game with a referral-bonus system in the core. I will explain n...