Taras Filatov's blog: think globally.. ;) (reporting from London)

Selective attention test

Taras — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:05:43 +0000

WebWorks quest

Taras — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:03:18 +0000

Trying to make our Web Supersample work under BlackBerry.

Managed to make the build in the end but it was like completing a quest game. Lots of googling and trying different things and settings before it has worked.

Meetings. Appcelerator and Cocoafish.

Taras — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:28:17 +0000

Had an interesting meeting with Microsoft today. Windows 8 is going to be massive and obviously you have to watch the Azure. Can’t tell any more

Also interesting meetup with Jeff Haynie, founder & CEO of Appcelerator. Was good to speak with him personally. Jeff’s presentation was interesting in that it was around techy issues and what problems their company is facing and it’s incredible how similar it is to what we have to deal with including things like JIRA, developers relation, fragmentation of online communities etc.

Also was stunned to find out about their acquisition of Cocoa Fish, another competitor of our QuickBlox. Can’t imagine how crowded the space might be in half a year’s time. The time is now. Or yesterday?

More meetings tomorrow.

test

Taras — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:00:54 +0000

London evening – St Katharine’s dock

Taras — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:37:19 +0000

A great idea for a pleasant evening in London is to arrive to London Bridge or Waterloo, walk along Thames to Tower bridge, cross it enjoying the scenery and then turn right to a secret place called St. Katharine’s dock. Go to Dickens Inn and have pizza and wine there. Enjoy the place.

Most of waiters there are Russian speaking in case it helps

Living in a cradle

Taras — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:46:43 +0000

Have you ever thought of leaving the cradle?

Thanks to iPhone

Taras — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:52:35 +0000

Thanks to iPhone I’ve grown a successful company during credit crunch, built up a great team, met a number of fantastic people, worked on many world famous projects, had tons of fun – and this goes on.

RIP Steve, the man who knew how to win perfection.

Always do your best

Taras — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:53:29 +0000

Just remembered

once my aikido sensei Alex from Southampton University dojo answered after I said on something “I’ll do my best”, he looked surprised, and said:
- always do your best!

I miss aikido – need to get back there as soon as possible.

M&S currency exchange rate sucks

Taras — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:31:35 +0000

Some people think Marks & Spencer or Thomas Cook have the best currency exchange rate. It’s far from true – there are of course high street kiosks with 9% commission and crap rates but in London Oxford Street you can just go across M&S to an Arabian shop where there is a currency exchange booth with much better rates. Exchanging 2000 euros into pounds for example you would save more than 100 pounds in comparison to M&S.

Director’s laptop

Taras — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:35:21 +0000

Was fed up by employees teasing me on “director’s laptop” – standard old white MacBook.

Well it’s been doing (and still doing) a great job. But I decided to get myself a top notch one so that employees are happy and the company hierarchy is back in order. In the world of IT I’m alpha male again

MacBook Pro i7 2.7, 8Gb RAM, 512 Gb SDD

Installed Lion yesterday (well it rather installed itself), everything flies.