Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on May. 20, 2019
We all know what happens when a programmer decides how a web siteor a mobile app should look. It ends up looking ugly. And why is that? I don’t know exactly,but my best bet is on the left-brained natureof programmers, who mostly are rigid and logical mathematicians. UI design, to the contrary,requi…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on May. 13, 2019
“A project manager’s work should not focus on dealing with problems;it should focus on preventing them,”—this is howRita Mulcahy starteda chapter about Risk Management in her great bookPMP Exam Prep. Sounds smart, but how doesa project manager know about the problems which are supposed to beprevent…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on May. 6, 2019
Bitcoin was a big technical mystery for me. All the articles I’d readabout it sounded extremely complex and absolutely indigestible. UntilI got stuck with a task: I had to integrate Zold, ourexperimental non-Blockchain cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin. I had to studythe architecture of Bitcoin and I fo…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Apr. 22, 2019
Some time ago I wrote a blog postAn Open Code Base Is Not Yet an Open Source Projectwhere I suggested a few important qualities of a good opensource repository/project. One of them was the well-written READMEfile. Here I will try to give a few hints on how to createa good README file and what mista…
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on Apr. 16, 2019
Apache Nutchis an open source framework written in Java. Its purposeis to help us crawl a set of websites (or the entire Internet), fetchthe content, and prepare it for indexing by, say, Solr. A pretty usefulframework if you ask me, however it is designed to be used onlymostly from the command line…
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on Apr. 8, 2019
You want your startup to be visible on TechCrunch, right? But you don’t have$15-20K per month to bribe a reputable PR firm to get you there? No worries.This blog post will give you a set of simple instructions on how you canget the attention of those tech journalists who are currently busywriting …