Blog by Yevgeniy A. Viktorov

comrade, that man said he from another planet; we need to do something

Zsh History Control

Many comes to Zsh through the famous oh-my-zsh project, but fewer, including myself, aware of the power Zsh gives us out of box.

In this post I’d like to illustrate history control feature.

TDD With Meteor: Mocha-web

I been doing research recently on test driven development practices and tools for developing web applications with Meteor platform. While there is no official TDD approach, at least at the moment of writing, I was able to find several techniques contributed by growing community.

Here I’ll start with mocha-web which is smart package available through the Atmosphere repository.

From Pull Request to Staging

One of my responsibilities on the work I do for the company, decided to remain anonymous, is creating a Staging environments for the new features and QA branches, but recently we were run into great features push and therefore such activity become a headache.

Now I’m looking for a solution and willing to share some finds :)

The Ubuntu App Showdown: Wrap-Up

Wow, the 3 weeks passed quite fast and now the judges should be quite busy on reviewing and choosing the winners from about 150 contest submissions. You can track progress through Ubuntu App Review Board.

As of me, I chosen to go with Hassle Free PC Synchronization idea, but, unfortunately failed to complete it during context time frame and with in this post I’d like to share my achievements, overall contest experience and future plans.

The Ubuntu App Showdown: Ideas

On the 14th of June 2012 Canonical announced the Ubuntu App Showdown; an exciting contest to create an app from scratch for Ubuntu in three weeks, and delivered in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

The three week period starts on the Mon 18th June 2012 and if I’ll find enough time I’ll be glad to participate as it’s really a great opportunity to dive into Ubuntu development.

Here I’d like to share some of my ideas.