Month: October 2015

http://www.bookmate.com/alievrauf

Morning run 15km, 1:17

Colleagues from online stores! If it’s not too much trouble, could you please send me a link to your YML files via private message? I promise not to share it further.

I have developed software that converts from YML to Hybris. I am really looking for something to practice on – I need large YML files from various stores in order to get as many products as possible with real characteristics, prices, and descriptions to test this on large volumes. I need YML files of any age, any content, as long as they are large and syntactically correct, and the characteristics are not fluff, but somewhat realistic (in colors – actual colors, in weight – kilograms, etc.).

In recent years, I never cease to be amazed at how well one can write software. I bow my head to JetBrains – the developers of IntelliJ Idea, an editor (IDE) for Java. They have created a simply brilliant code editor.

The longer I work with it, every month I discover something new, it keeps pleasantly surprising me every time. I have not encountered a single bug. Despite being written in Java itself, it operates smoothly and quickly. Well done, guys!

I visited “Flowers for Algernon” at RAMT. Liked it. Recommend it. Grymov is recognizable. Parts of the performance are very psychedelic. Technically advanced in terms of lighting, sound, and scenery – techniques like film editing are used for seamless transitions from the past to the future and back. In the first part, the set reminds me of the movie Dogville – people first: a black-and-white play with symbolic decorations, inflatable hanging bags. Minimal means convey the maximum amount of meanings. In the second part, more color and life are added, just as the plot requires. Sometimes it feels like a one-actor theater – Kerin plays Charlie so well. Definitely go see it, but it’s better to read the book in advance – it will be a bit clearer. Among us, only Lisa has read it, but I will definitely get to the original someday.

Very interesting read about how development is organized at Booking.com.

“…The testing process is considered hellish by many. As a developer, you are responsible for your own commit. You test it as you see fit, locally, on virtual machines. (…) there’s no QA (…) then straight to production (…) A colleague says he last opened the site a month ago. (…) We use scrum, but scrum isn’t agile enough for us, so we make it more agile. Each team decides for itself how to work, there’s nothing uniform..”

A lot of interesting insights. The article is quite old

The SAP hybris Commerce Developer certificate has arrived. The second in my collection. I took the exam in January 2015, or thereabouts. Soon I will be taking the SAP hybris Business Analyst exam.

It’s funny when the App Store asks you to review the changes in the license agreement and shows 56 (!) pages of fine print. Then, it asks twice if I accept them. I wonder, has anyone read this besides Apple’s lawyers?

Hmm, a 4D cinema with the smell of socks

Has anyone been? Maybe it’s more interesting to watch what’s going on behind you rather than this boring movie?

Do they creak?

Tomorrow I have a dual challenge: 15 km running, then 150 km – by car.