September 03 2017, 21:28

My hybris blog update:

On August 30, SAP announced a new version of hybris Commerce, Release 6.5.

The detailed information about the new features and changes of the release is published on hybris wiki.

However, official releases are often primarily filled with marketing highlights, so I decided to quickly analyze the data from the documentation portal to uncover important changes possibly not mentioned in the official release notes.

Every major feature deserves their dedicated page on the SAP Hybris Help Portal. The updated pages are also important, but there are too many of them. The importance of the new pages generally exceeds that of the updated ones.

I gathered all 200+ new pages into a single list.

https://hybrismart.com/2017/09/01/sap-hybris-help-6-5-what-is-new/

September 03 2017, 11:07

Watched a good movie yesterday. It’s a family film, ideal for watching without English subtitles: it’s very straightforward (half of the movie is a dog talking, rated 6+).

In the film, dogs periodically die, to whom you tend to get attached, but everything ends well, and overall, the movie is very positive.

It was based on this book: https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/31218906/

https://www.amazon.com/Dogs-Purpose-Novel-Humans/dp/0765330342

http://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/sobachya-zhizn-2017-571896/

September 02 2017, 19:37

In the last YEAR AND A HALF, at most 10-15 different acquaintances have called my mobile, and about the same number of strangers (including “buy insurance” and “from the clinic”). And not a single call yet related to work 🙂 If you subtract family calls, the phone functions as a player+browser+social networks+camera almost without exception. In fact, 150 bucks a month go to family communication + mobile internet + very occasional, extremely rare phone calls to various services as needed.

Internet is heavily used. This month 6 GB of data was used (unlimited). Traffic 42% goes to video. (On Android, at least you can set YouTube quality to minimum, but not on iPhone!)

SMS are free. 117 SMS this month. 77 calls totaling 159 minutes of conversations, of which about 20 are outside the family group of numbers. Usually no more than 10, it’s just that August was particularly active. All calls are also unlimited.

Compared to how I used my phone in Moscow, I barely use it here at all. I could have just kept the internet and made calls via VOIP. But that’s just me.

But really, when you think about it. It’s not even a phone anymore. It’s a microcomputer, which among other things, can still make and receive calls through an old-school channel. The word ‘phone’ is still hanging on, but probably not for long.

September 01 2017, 17:02

Working with international clients and teams, I encountered an interesting experience I hadn’t considered before: the names of the people you work with can be any pronounceable (and sometimes not so much) set of letters. Or your name might be such for them. Therefore, here the visiting Chinese and Koreans have renamed themselves with English names.

Interesting article: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2009/04/the_names_du_xiao_hua_but_call_me_steve.html