Sasha Sydoruk

My blog is back online. The last WordPress updated somewhat destroyed my installation and it took me a while to make things right. Anyways, I am back now.

Stay tuned for more info.

• Ruby On Rails Migrations
• WCF
• Resharper 3.0
• Firebug
• Ruby On Rails Capistrano
• .NET DLR
• WPF
• Silverlight
• Warlock’s Pet at Level 20
• Murloc Suite

A month ago I started my new job at Blizzard. And so far it has been really great. It is amazing how nice it feels to work with people who are extremely talented.

The work environment is really different from my previous ”business casual” jobs, so I am still getting used to that part, but otherwise I am really happy with my new job.

PS. And yes, I have started playing WoW. I tried to stay away from it before and have been quite successful but now I am full blown addict. Oh yeah, and I am Undead Rogue Cammius lvl 16 on Lethon. So, if you have some good loot that you don’t need anymore, just send it my way!

What a great article. I have been thinking about this for a while myself but I was never able to break it down like the author of “Why great coders get paid far too little“.

Here is a really fun list of engineering quotations. Found on Signal vs Noise.

Here is some of my favorites:

“Professors discussing Engineering Design are like Priests discussing marriage: lots of learned thought, but very little practical experience.”

Professor David Gossard, MIT
at the NSF Design Conference, Amherst, MA, June, 1989

“If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.”

Joseph G. Gavin, Jr.,
discussing the design of the Grumman lunar module that landed NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969.
“Fly Me to the Moon: An Interview with Joseph G. Gavin, Jr.”,
Technology Review , 97:5, July, 1994, Page 62.

“What you need to invent, is an imagination and a pile of junk.”

Thomas Edison,
quoted on National Public Radio,
November, 2001.

Well, this is very cool. SanDisk’s Sansa Connect MP3 Player is running on Mono, open source implementation of .NET framework. Endgadget has more info.

Here is some of the features:

• Integrated WiFi
• Supports PlaysForSure
• Works with Vista
• Streaming Internet radio
• microSD slot

For designers who find web standards as easy to grasp as a buttered eel, Craig Cook shows how to stop the hurting and turn on the understanding. Learn how web standards work, and why they are more than simply an alternative means of producing a visual design.

How to Grok Web Standards

Here is a really good write up of the changes in SP1 for a web developer - Visual Studio 2005 SP1 released - details about changes in “web tools” area.

Kevin provides a great detailed post about how to add custom static code analysis rules to Team System

Tim Bray on Sun, Java, Ruby (on Rails) and JRuby