Author: ProHoster

Topic habramitap #1: backend development

Hello, Habr! Our team attends many thematic IT conferences, and even speaks at some of them. And often during conversations on the sidelines we are asked the same question: are we planning to hold our own conferences? Firstly, we sometimes really do them (for example, the content conference Contenting.io), and, secondly, old-timers probably remember that […]

Erlang/OTP 22 released

A few hours ago, the Erlang team announced the next release of the programming language and the entire platform. Let me remind you that Erlang/OTP is intended for creating widely scalable systems operating in soft real time with high availability requirements. The platform has long been successfully used in such areas as telecommunications, banks, e-commerce, telephony and instant messaging. The main changes in this […]

Kdenlive 19.04.1 release with many bug fixes

Kdenlive 19.04.1 was released, which focused on fixing as many bugs as possible. The changes concern the refactored version of Kdenlive and include about 40 fixes, incl. related to the timeline. The most noticeable changes: Search effects are now in all tabs; A faster selection of bin clips has appeared; Fixed a crash in projects with locked tabs; Correct application of sketches to [...]

'Great' results for Red Dead Online, GTA V and Borderlands series and more from Take-Two report

The 2019 financial year for Take-Two Interactive was marked by Red Dead Redemption 2, but Grand Theft Auto V plays a significant role in the publisher’s income even more than five years after its release. In the latest report, the company spoke about the results of the past period, including among the successes of the multiplayer action game Red Dead Online. Shortly after its publication, the game suddenly […]

Loading FIAS into the database on MSSQLSERVER using improvised (SQLXMLBULKLOAD) tools. How it (probably) should not be done

Epigraph: "When you have a hammer in your hands, everything around you seems like nails." Somehow, a long time ago, it seems - last Friday, while walking around the office, the accursed bosses became concerned that I was spending time in idleness and contemplating cats. - Why don't you download FIAS, my dear friend! - said the authorities. – For the process of downloading something is not […]

Another monitoring system

16 modems, 4 cellular carriers = Upload speed 933.45 Mbps Introduction Hello! This article is about how we wrote a new monitoring system for ourselves. It differs from the existing ones by the possibility of high-frequency synchronous obtaining of metrics and very low resource consumption. The polling rate can be as low as 0.1 milliseconds with a timing accuracy of 10 nanoseconds between metrics. All binaries take […]

A well-known blogger has denied a rumor about a 64-megapixel camera in the Samsung Galaxy Note 10

Last week, Samsung announced the world's first 64-megapixel CMOS image sensor designed for installation in smartphones. Immediately after the announcement, rumors spread across the Internet that the first device to receive this sensor would be the Galaxy Note 10 phablet, which is expected to be announced in the third quarter of 2019. However, blogger Ice Universe (@UniverseIce) claims that this will not happen. […]

Production of the hull of the spacecraft "Federation" has begun

Production of the body of the first copy of the promising Federation spacecraft has begun in Russia. This was reported by the online publication RIA Novosti, citing information received from sources in the rocket and space industry. Let us recall that the Federation manned vehicle, developed by RSC Energia, is designed to deliver people and cargo to the Moon and to orbital stations located in low-Earth orbit. The ship is reusable, for [...]

Virgin Galactic moves to a new home - a spaceport in New Mexico

Richard Branson's privately held Virgin Galactic is finally finding a permanent home at Spaceport America in New Mexico, preparing for commercial suborbital launches for wealthy adventurers. The futuristic spaceport has been relatively quiet and deserted since it formally opened back in 2011. The state of New Mexico took the risk of building in the middle of the desert […]

Only Ruby, only hardcore!

Early in the morning (or late at night) of January 9th, I arrived at Sheremetyevo Airport to meet Josh Calderimis from Travis-CI. The printed nameplate was left at home, but as luck would have it, we met Josh almost immediately and his first phrase was: “Toaster? I am hungry, you got toasts?” I won’t say that this question asked from [...]

Premiere with .toaster {mobile apps}

Brew yourself some coffee and get comfortable in your chair, we are starting the premiere show: » Presentations of speakers » Photo report from .toaster {web-development} » Thanks to Ilya Borodin and Sergey Nikitin for the photos » The next .toaster {ruby} will be held on February 10 - don’t miss it! Registration is now open. This is such a movie. Source: habr.com

Photo report from .toaster{web development}

The conference was started by Angela Tse, Facebook Development Manager in Russia, Poland, Korea and Eastern Europe. She talked about what's new on the Facebook platform: a custom open graph, a new profile and other distribution channels. Then there was a teleconference with a speaker who could not visit our cold lands - Scott Chacon (author of the book Pro Git book […]