Author: ProHoster

Top 10 Microsoft Courses in Russian

Hello, Habr! Just recently we published the first part of a series of collections of useful training courses for programmers. And then the last fifth part crept up unnoticed. Here we have listed some of the most popular IT courses that are available on our Microsoft Learn learning platform. All of them are, of course, free. Details and links to courses are under the cut! Course topics in this […]

Top IT outsourcing trends beyond 2020

Organizations outsource IT infrastructure maintenance for a variety of reasons, from the desire for increased operational agility to the need to gain new specialized skills and cost savings. However, market trends are changing. According to a report from GSA UK, some outsourcing trends will become less significant in the future. It is expected that such changes will become noticeable in 2020. Companies […]

In which countries and cities are developers earning more when taxes and cost of living are taken into account?

If we compare the salary of a middle-qualified software developer in Moscow, Los Angeles and San Francisco, taking the salary data that the developers themselves leave on specialized salary monitoring services, we will see: In Moscow, the salary of such a developer at the end of 2019 is 130 rub. per month (according to the salary service on moikrug.ru) In San Francisco - 000 […]

CrossOver 19.0 release for Linux and macOS

CodeWeavers has released the release of the Crossover 19.0 package, based on the Wine code and designed to run programs and games written for the Windows platform. CodeWeavers is one of the key contributors to the Wine project, sponsors its development and returns to the project all the innovations implemented for its commercial products. The source code for the open components of CrossOver 19.0 can be downloaded from this page. […]

Pentest. The practice of penetration testing or "ethical hacking". New course from OTUS

Attention! This article is not engineering and is intended for readers who are interested in ethical hacking and training in this direction. Most likely, if you are not interested in learning, this material will not be of interest to you. Penetration testing is the process of legally hacking information systems in order to identify the vulnerabilities of an information system. Pentesting (that is, penetration testing) takes place [...]

Google has prepared a search and navigation system for Android code

Google has launched a service called cs.android.com, designed to search by code in Git repositories associated with the Android platform. When searching, various classes of elements found in the code are taken into account, and the result is displayed in a visual form with syntax highlighting, the ability to navigate between links and view the history of changes. For example, you can click on the name of a function in the code and go to […]

Brian Kernighan's book "UNIX: A History And A Memoir" is out

Brian Kernighan, developer of a number of UNIX utilities, as well as the author of classic works on the C programming language and the UNIX operating system, has published his new book. UNIX: A History And A Memoir is a history of UNIX through the lens of Kernighan's personal memories. It tells the story of the people and events at Bell Labs that gave birth to the most significant operating system and the most significant language […]

Ubuntu Server 19.10.1 builds for Raspberry Pi published

Canonical has created assemblies of the server edition of the Ubuntu 19.10.1 distribution for Raspberry Pi boards. 32-bit assemblies are available for Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4, and 64-bit for Raspberry Pi 3 and 4. In the proposed assemblies, USB support on Raspberry Pi 4 boards with 4GB of RAM has been brought to working order (previously due to an error in the kernel only supported [...]

RAR 5.80 archiver

The release of the proprietary RAR archiver version 5.80 took place. List of changes in the console version: You can save the last access time of archived files using the -tsp switch on the command line. It is allowed to combine it with other -ts switches, for example: rar a -tsc -tsp archive files Several modifiers can be combined in the same -ts switch. For example, you can use -tscap […]

Axiom Verge Metroidvania is getting a sequel, but for now only on Nintendo Switch

As part of yesterday's Nintendo Indie World Showcase broadcast, it became known that a sequel to the popular metroidvania Axiom Verge, released in 2015, is in development. According to game developer Thomas Happ, Axiom Verge 2 has been in production for four years. So far, only the Nintendo Switch version has been confirmed. According to the project description on the official website [...]

From January 1, they want to reduce the threshold for duty-free import of parcels to the Russian Federation to €100

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed Finance Minister Anton Siluanov to discuss within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) a proposal to lower the threshold for duty-free import of parcels from foreign online stores into Russia, TASS reports citing the press secretary of the Prime Minister Oleg Osipov. The proposal includes a reduction in the tax-free minimum cost of a parcel to €100 from January 1, 2020, to €50 – […]