Author: ProHoster

Introduced Zdog 1.0, a pseudo-3D engine for the Web using Canvas and SVG

The Zdog 1.0 JavaScript library is available, which implements a 3D engine that simulates three-dimensional objects based on Canvas and SVG vector primitives, i.e. implementing a three-dimensional geometric space with actual drawing of flat shapes. The project code is open under the MIT license. The library has only 2100 lines of code and occupies 28 KB without minification, but at the same time allows you to create quite impressive objects that are close […]

NGINX Unit 1.9.0 Application Server Release

The NGINX Unit 1.9 application server was released, within which a solution is being developed to ensure the launch of web applications in various programming languages ​​(Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js and Java). NGINX Unit can simultaneously run multiple applications in different programming languages, the launch parameters of which can be changed dynamically without the need to edit configuration files and restart. Code […]

Video: Ubisoft shared plans for E3 2019

Ubisoft holds a press conference at E3 every year. In 2019, the publishing house’s plans have not changed, as was announced a few months ago. And now a video has appeared on the official YouTube channel of Ubisoft, which talks about the already released games that will be shown at the event. At 22:00 Moscow time on June 10, Ubisoft will hold a pre-show for its fans. […]

3CX v16 Update 1, 3CX app for iOS Beta and new version of 3CX Call Flow Designer

We present an overview of the latest 3CX products. There will be a lot of interesting - do not switch! 3CX v16 Update 1 We recently released another update, 3CX v16 Update 1. The update includes new chat features and an updated communication widget for your 3CX Live Chat & Talk site. Also in Update 1 is a new Call Flow Service that adds […]

How I visited the legendary School 42: "pool", cats and the Internet instead of teachers. Part 2

In the last post, I started a story about School 42, which is famous for its revolutionary education system: there are no teachers, students check each other’s work themselves, and there is no need to pay for school. In this post I will tell you in more detail about the training system and what tasks students complete. There are no teachers, there is the Internet and friends. Schooling [...]

Show the employer that you are developing: indicate your additional education in the profile on "My Circle"

From our regular research, we see that despite the fact that 85% of specialists working in IT have higher education, 90% engage in self-education in the course of their professional activities, and 65% take additional professional education courses. We see that higher education in IT today is not enough, and the demand for constant retraining and advanced training is extremely high. Assessing […]

Higher and additional education in IT: the results of the study "My Circle"

It has long been an established opinion in HR that a successful career in IT is impossible without continuous education. Some generally recommend choosing an employer that has strong training programs for its employees. In recent years, a huge number of schools of additional vocational education have also appeared in the IT field. Individual development plans and employee coaching are trending. Observing such trends, we [...]

ack 3.0.0 released

A stable release of the ack 3.0.0 utility has taken place. ack is an analogue of grep, but for programmers, which is written in Perl. In the new version: New option —proximate=N, for ordering search results in relation to each other. Changed and improved the behavior of the -w option, which enables whole word searching. Previously, ack 2.x allowed […]

We build our Nginx with a couple of commands

Hello! My name is Sergey, I work as an infrastructure engineer in the tinkoff.ru platform API team. In this article, I will talk about the problems that our team faced when preparing Nginx-based balancers for various projects. I will also tell you about the tool that allowed me to overcome most of them. Nginx is a multifunctional and actively developing proxy server. It differs […]

Experiment: How to disguise the use of Tor to bypass blocks

Internet censorship is becoming an increasingly important problem around the world. This leads to an intensified "arms race" - government agencies and private corporations in different countries seek to block various content and struggle with means to bypass such restrictions, while developers and researchers strive to create effective tools to combat censorship. Scholars from Carnegie Mellon Universities, Stanford University […]

Computex 2019: New HP EliteBook x360 Convertible Laptops

In July of this year, HP will begin selling new EliteBook x360 convertible laptops, aimed primarily at business users. Buyers will be offered the EliteBook x360 1030 G4 and EliteBook x360 1040 G6 models, equipped with a display measuring 13,3 inches and 14 inches diagonally, respectively. Customers will be able to choose between versions equipped with a Full HD (1920 × 1080 pixels) and […]

Redmi K20 is another "flagship killer" for the budget conscious

Along with the K20 Pro smartphone, Redmi introduced another “flagship killer 2.0” - K20. The device largely replicates the characteristics and appearance of its older brother. The differences lie in the single-chip system: an 8-core 8-nm Snapdragon 730 (2 + 6) is installed instead of the more powerful 7-nm 855 model (1 + 3 + 4); RAM capacity: [...]