Walk like an Egyptian. With a pyramide.
It is sometimes difficult to communicate the fun and excitement of parenting to those who don’t have kids. Especially when talking about small things. Adults take A LOT OF things for granted, and they...
View ArticleFrom the baby to a US Marines’ boy
Maxim has got his first haircut today. Don’t worry, that wasn’t either from me or Olga. We got some professional help. Maxim was puzzled at the beginning, but that he got bored and turned somewhat...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Perl!
My favorite (so far) programming language has been born 20 years ago.  It’s been loved and hated. It’s been praised and damned. It’s been complimented and criticized. But all that doesn’t...
View Article4,000 posts
While playing around with this and that (more on this a bit later), I noticed a perfectly round number in one of my sidebars – 4,000. That’s exactly how many posts I have published on this blog.Â...
View ArticleBlogging milestone : 5,000+ posts
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring to you post number 5,005. I nearly missed it altogether, so please excuse a not exactly a round number. And now, before you throw things at me, let me highlight some...
View Article33 down, 66 to go
I’m 33 today. Feels exactly the same as yesterday and a year ago. But getting all those best wishes from people all around the world is, of course, super cool! Thank you all so much. And while we...
View Article10,000 tweets
I just noticed that my Twitter stream has passed 10,000 tweets. Here is an obligatory screenshot. Of course, not all of these were handcrafted – there were plenty of automated tweets from Delicious,...
View ArticleHappy birthday, Slashdot!
Slashdot, probably the most well-known technology news website, is celebrating its 15th birthday. I can’t say that I’ve been reading it for 15 years (yet), but I’m pretty close. If I remember...
View ArticleOne million views
It’s been a while since I posted any milestones for this blog, so here you go. Yup, according to WordPress stats, my blog pages have been viewed a 1,000,000 times. Now, they were probably viewed...
View ArticleHappy 10th birthday, WordPress!
Today is the WordPress Day. Thousands and thousands of people gather in hundreds of cities and towns all over the world to celebrate WordPress’s 10th birthday. In 10 years, WordPress went from just...
View ArticleUpgraded the site’s WordPress theme to FavePersona…
Upgraded the site’s WordPress theme to FavePersonal 1.3. This time, using the child theme best practice.
View ArticleJust upgraded my blog to WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”. …
Just upgraded my blog to WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”. As always, it took only a few clicks and seconds. All seems to be working fine.
View ArticleHappy 10th birthday, Fedora!
Dear Fedora, I know we have our disagreements. At times I don’t know where you are going. Or whether even you know where you are going. But that’s OK. Because you are still awesome. You still pay...
View ArticleGitHub celebrates 10 million repositories
GitHub is celebrating 10 million repositories milestone. While it might seem like a lot, it looks like they are only picking up the pace, with more than half – over 5.5 million repositories – created...
View ArticleWordPress 3.9 “Smith” released
A brand new and shiny version of the best CMS ever – WordPress – has been released. Version 3.9, code-named “Smith” brings quite a few noticeable improvements. Mostly, these are around the post...
View ArticleWhatsApp passes 500,000,000 active users
According to the WhatsApp blog: Thanks to all of you, half a billion people around the world are now regular, active WhatsApp users. In the last few months, we’ve grown fastest in countries like...
View ArticleFirefox 29.0
It’s been a long time since I stopped being a Firefox fan. Back when it was the only full featured open source browser, it was awesome. But then the development slowed down, the browser started...
View ArticleEvernote hits 100,000,000 users
Evernote, the note-taking web service that I’ve praised several times, has hit a rather substantial milestone – 100 million users. Since there are actually multiple applications and services with a...
View ArticleCakePHP 3, here we go again.
As some of you might know, I’m a big fan of CakePHP framework. I’ve used it on numerous projects since the beginning of times. I’ve built projects small and large, migrated existing native PHP...
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