Download Day is here!
Set a Guinness World Record
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Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do to help us set the record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours is get Firefox 3 now – it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.
Please download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008. That’s 10:00 a.m. in Mountain View, 1:00 p.m. in Toronto, 2:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 7:00 p.m. in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 9:00 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. in Beijing and 2:00 a.m. in Tokyo.
Business in my header is in upper comas, because the way that some firms treat with web-developers is at least not ethic. I don’t want to offend such beautiful place as Bukovyna, I think this can be anywhere, but two cases, which I was involved in were connected with the co-working with such firms, which were based in Chernivtsi.
In both cases client (according to himself) had lack of money, they were praying to make websites for them for not a big price, but requirements and permanent specifications were of the level of company, which pays well.
One ofthe two websites I made long ago, using only HTML, I updated it few times and it was my copyright text with e-mail address in the bottom of the page.
That’s it:
As you see now, my copyright is deleted, now there is:
Webmaster: Hodan B.I. , Site support
But this “webmaster” is lazy or non-competent, cuz when we look at the source we see in <head>…</head> :
<meta name=”author” content=”Osipov Vladimir”>
Second website was developed by the webstudio, where I used to work.
It is located here .
When we created it there was link to Olvia’s website, but now we see “B y M a x w e l l V a z o v s k y” in the footer. Who is this one? - hell knows. Maximum work he did was changing some texts - and I doubt it gives him rights to tell that this website was created by him. And he was also lazy or just didn’t know, that in <head>…</head> is
<meta name=”author” content=”Olvia Group”>
and no Maxwells mentioned there.
I’ve mentioned this when recently one friend of mine asked me to have a look at these websites and prepare the commercial proposal for SEO service. When I looked at “old” well known for me pages I was embarassed by impudence and disagreed to co-work with them again. Of course it can be that the bosses don’t know about this, perhaps they just asked these “Maxwells” to change something on websites, and these “Maxwells” decided that now they have rights to call themselves “The Creators”. Well if they do this to someone, then someone will do this to them… sooner or later…
Yahoo! that’s it! Manchester United won champion’s league 07/08! That means that Chelsea are double runner-up this season and England Premiership and Champions League prizes are in Red devils’ pocket
Penalty lottery was really nervous, but I knew Anelka won’t score, better they’d let Shevchenko play.
Just got the response from Google, I haven’t passed the first phone interview, so I won’t be in Google. It’s OK, really UI developer is not exactly what I want. PHP developer position is much better for me.
So, now I’m waiting for Yahoo! answer and really hope things will be fine for Yahoo!
BTW, our www.themetallist.com reached it record visitors count - 2041!
Mainly thanks to the SATYRICON report from Moscow:
Finally it happened, after 2 unsuccesseful takes, the 3rd take of Google interview went OK.
Dylan, Engineer at Google called me yesterday evening and we had 45 minutes conversation. First he asked me to describe my usual working day.
After I was aksed about 2 different situations, we were discussing them. I told what will I do on server side and client side. So the situations were: double click on form button, especially if it’s the form of ordering something using credit card. Another one - checking if there is already such username in base by registration, using iframe instead of JSON.
Dylan also asked my about JavaScript closures. But unfortunately I had no idea about that, but read some information after and it’s really interesting, I will write about this soon
After that I had a chance to give my questions.
PS. my Ubuntu installation went not well, had problems with GRUB, will try again soon
Yesterday I had scheduled interview for Google, but at the time they had to call they didn’t. The reason was they couldn’t reach me. Strange, I found this information in google.com in 15 seconds or so:
011 - US exit code; must be dialed first for all international calls made from the USA or Canada
380 - country code for Ukraine
area code - 2 digit area codes
phone number - 7 digits
US to Ukraine international dialing format: 011 + 380 + ?? + ??? ????
Paradox - people from Google couldn’t find how to call to Ukraine
OK, we rescheduled for today. Also third Yahoo! interview will be todays or next few days.
Today is the day I decided to start my personal blog in English. I plan to write mainly about web development, especially PHP, AJAX, JavaScript, Joomla etc.
Hope you will find many interesting information in my blog!
