It’s been a few months now since we started looking for an office here in Moscow. We didn’t ask for much as we’re a startup. All we were looking for is some lousy 50 sq meter office not too far away from the center. The story dates back to February when we decided to move out of our expensive 13 sq meter office in South Moscow. We were quite sure that we’ll be able to find...
Preparing for Zend PHP 5 Certification
I mentioned on Twitter a while ago that I’ll be taking the Zend PHP 5 Certification exam at the end of this month. Well, the time has come! Exam is tomorrow noon. I’m quite excited about it, cause with this startup thing I had no time to study at all! I did read the Study Guide by php|architect and it’s quite good, but outlines only some aspects on each topic. It doesn’t...
Phew.. Party Time is Over. Welcome to 2010!
Hey there! Hope you all had a good rest and a fab time during your holidays. As you might have guessed, I did. I celebrated New Year in Italy! It was a 7-day stay at Rimini, from where we travelled to Venice, Florence and Rome. The New Year party was awesome, although the rain has probably ruined it for some of us. The good news is that we didn’t catch a cold ;) We ate a lot of pizza and...
Foller.me Featured on ProgrammableWeb.com
Wow this is so awesome. I received an e-mail this morning and here’s what it said: Dear kovshenin, Your mashup Foller.me has now been published on ProgrammableWeb. You can see it here: <a href="">; It is also our Mashup of the Day for 09/13/2009. Congratulations! It will be on the front page of ProgrammableWeb today. Thank you for submitting your application and sharing it with our...
Twitter Friendly Links: Now In Alphanumeric Mode
Hello my friends! Yes, I’m finally back from my two-week vacation. It was awesome, I spent a week in Magnitogorsk and another one in Sochi. The weather was great, it only rained on Sunday, when I was on my way back. Everything went fine, I’ve seen all my friends, we had a great time. Sochi is okay, getting ready for year 2014, though their airport in Adler still sucks big time...
My First Vacation. Seriously ;)
Okay folks, after years of hard work around the clock, I’ve finally got some time off, so yes, this is my first vacation ever. It all started last Saturday when I took off to Magnitogorsk to see my relatives. I’m actually having a great time here and the weather is pretty cool, but I’m leaving to Sochi this Saturday for one more week and then back to Moscow and of course, back...
And Yet Another WordPress Theme for Inspiration ;)
My brand new creation: The Foller.me Theme for WordPress and I ain’t releasing it public ;)
Foller.me Gets Featured on Startups Live TV!
StartupsLive.tv is definitely one of the best shows I’ve seen around these days and guess what! I got there! Startups Live is the non-biased platform for any startup to get live exposure, a captive audience, and valuable feedback from potential business partners, customers, members, and investors. I sent a request to Startups Live asking them to feature the Foller.me Twitter service...
Linux Dummy: Unscheduled Maintenance
If anyone of you have tried to access the blog yesterday night, you might have noticed that nothing was working. Sorry! I’ll say it straight, it’s completely my fault. Yesterday evening I decided to set up a cron job for automatic backups on my VPS – a full MySQL dump and a compressed archive of the www directory. So I got a couple of error messages stating that I don’t...
Blog Redesigned: Hi, This is the New Me!
Done! Wohooo! That seemed to take forever but my brand new WordPress theme is now complete and polished. Apperantly this is my first ever WordPress theme done from scratch. I started sketching like a week ago in Corel PaintShop Pro X2 (btw I don’t like to do Photoshop ’cause I’ve been using PaintShop Pro for around 6 years and got pretty much used to it. Looking forward to Adobe...