Positive and negative examples from the Internet

This week we will talk about the positive and negative usability of various applications on the network.I will not fantasize, think out non-existent things and, as examples, bring the projects that I use daily and I can put my opinion back on my own experience. To begin with, let's start with a negative experience.

It's no secret that at the present time fewer and fewer peoples goes to stores and more and more people buying things onlain. I am such one of those people who make purchases in the Internet. At the moment I have tried out such systems as aliexpress, ebay, amazon and alibaba. Now I want to talk about the latter one. Horrible system :) It is so unfriendly to the user that I did not have a desire to make any orders using the website http://alibaba.com/. Honestly, I repeatedly returned, hoping to discover innovations, but each time left disappointed. This resource does not allow you to make a purchase without the consent of the seller, almost all the goods are sold in batches of several pieces, ie excludes the possibility of buying trial versions of the goods, delay of response from the seller can reach several days. I tried to deal with this system, but the more I used it, the more it disgusted me. Perhaps the most inconvenient global online store.

From the bad to the good, to smooth out all the negative. To the positive aspects of the Internet, I can include an application like WAZE. This application is not only available on the web, but also supported by mobile systems such as android and iOS. This application is a navigator program, the architects of which are the users themselves. The program / site is very simple to use and contains the most necessary information that may be needed on the road. In addition to all the basic functions of the navigator and informer, the system includes game elements. By adding to the map "dangers" or missing roads, passing a certain distance or reporting accidents, the user receives bonus points with which they can change their appearance on the map for other users. This program is so much pleased me and it turned out to be so necessary that I use it constantly ... if not every day, then every other day. I highly recommend to use "waze" if you have not done so yet. 

 Perhaps on this we will finish. From myself I want to wish you more and more positive and less negative emotions from using different kinds of systems and applications in the network.

Software development and business models

In today's article, I want to talk about software development and business models. For the analysis, I chose the Scrum development methodology and the co-financing model.Quite a few companies use the methodology of developing Scrum, one of such companies is Skype, which partly uses this flexible methodology of software development. This methodology focuses on the quality control of the development process.

The term Scrum itself is defined as the methodology of project management, which is built on the principles of time management. Its main feature is involvement in the process of all participants, and each participant has a certain role. The bottom line is that not only the team is working on the solution of the problem, but all those who are interested in the solution of the problem, not just put it and relaxed, but constantly "work" with the team, and this work does not mean only constant monitoring. In addition to managing software development projects, Scrum can also be used in the work of software support teams, or as an approach to managing the development and maintenance of programs.Thus, the development methodology of Scrum is unique in its way, allowing to look at the problem through the eyes of different people and find the golden mean for the project.The second business model for consideration, I chose the model of co-investment in ideas. Fans collect money for what they like. Sharing and sharing technology unites the impulse of one user who wants to donate a particular artist or writer money to create a work, with hundreds of other fans with a similar desire (and it does not take much effort to do this), as a result of which you can collect a considerable amount.

For example, the company ZTE began raising funds by crowdsourcing to the Hawkeye smartphone. Its concept is created by the users themselves and implies, in particular, the ability to control the device with the eyes, which will be very useful for people with disabilities or injured with limbs. The main innovation of the device will be technology i-tracking, which will track the movements of the eyes of users. This will allow, for example, to scroll web pages with the help of moving pupils.On this I will probably finish the article, but in conclusion I want to say, I do not think there are any bad software development or business models, there is not the correct application of them where the model does not work and vice versa, for any model there is always a place, the main thing is to understand how it Works and what to expect of it.

Hackers (9.nädal)

 Hackers. For many, these people are mystical personalities, hacking the system and going against the law. In the majority this opinion has developed due to the many films shot on this topic. Eric S. Raymond is trying to refute this opinion. In his article, Eric S. Raymondi tries to explain to people who actually are hackers in their own opinion and how they differ from crackers (burglars).

Initially, hackers called programmers, who corrected errors in software in any fast or elegant way. According to Raymond, hackers live according to a certain ideology and rules. These are people who can appreciate and understand hacker values. Crackers in his opinion is a completely different group of people having nothing to do with real hackers. Raymond says: hackers - build, crackers - break.Despite all the words of Raymond, I believe that it does not matter who you think yourself and call hackers in their understanding. It so happened that the name of things is given by society and not by a small group of people. If the majority decided that the grass is green, then it will be green, if the majority decided that a person capable of hacking a defense and stealing data - a hacker, then so be it. People do not like to think and analyze much that they do not understand, and therefore it's easiest to call things by the names that most people used to call them.

 I myself, am not a hacker or cracker, but sometimes I use programs to crack any other programs. In my understanding, hackers are people able to bypass the system, look for errors or vice versa to correct them. In turn, hackers are divided into "White Hat", "Black Hat" and "Gray hat". Black hats are called cyber-criminals, while white hats are used by other information security specialists (in particular specialists working in large IT companies) or researchers of IT systems that do not violate the law. In cases, for example, minor violations of the law or absence of violations of the law, but the violation of the internal rules of an Internet service can be used the term Gray Hat. For me, a hacker is a person with certain skills in the IT field, able to find loopholes in the code and can use them to obtain either personal or public benefits.Proceeding from the above, I can say with confidence that hackers are also engines of progress that make information technology develop at an accelerated pace. Hackers do not allow to monopolize various kinds of projects, crack security and transfer materials to society, forcing companies to come up with new product and protection options. Also, I do not consider hackers to be bad people, perhaps because I have never encountered the consequences of their work and have received no moral, physical or financial harm on their part.Maybe someday my opinion will change, or maybe I will become a hacker ... who knows ...

IT juhtimine ja riskihaldus

In this article we will talk about the leaders in the IT field. We know a lot about great people like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, we'll talk about less known but no less significant people.
I would like to talk about people with whom I am personally acquainted and directly related to the project that has received a life in Estonia and is flourishing and for today thanks to these leaders. The names of these people are Hannes Plinte and Madis Sassiad. The name of the company that they created GoSwift OÜ. The company is engaged in queue management services internationally at border checkpoints what was born in starting in 2011.
That types of managers can easily be attributed to leaders, to people who know exactly what their goals are. Know the scope of these goals and how to lead the team to the task. If this were not so, then would success come so soon? Already in the first year the project fully paid for itself, earned a lot of awards in the IT field and entered the international market. Knowing these people personally, I can say that in life they are ordinary cheerful people, able to joke and communicate on any topic, in the working environment they are also friendly and socially developed. When it comes to dealing with work, they are demanding and serious, they understand exactly, the fulfillment of what tasks to demand from their subordinates and at the same time remain "people." Perhaps these qualities in the right balance and brought these, in my eyes great, people to success.
Since by nature from childhood I really like to play games. Then our second candidate for consideration will be Ken Kutaragi, the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment. This manager can be attributed to the type coach. Without his skills, the company would not have achieved such a huge profit in the market. Kutaragi closely followed the financial analytics, tracked the losses and profits of Sony Corporation. This explains the high profit of the PlayStation franchise in Sony reports, it was the main source of profit for the company.

What are the qualities that a given person has and his perception of the world speaks. For example: In the 1980s, he watched his daughter play in Famicom and saw the huge potential of electronic entertainment. At that time, Sony executives showed little interest in video games. When Nintendo announced the need to create an audio chip for the new 16-bit system, Kutaragi's help was accepted.
In conclusion, I would like to express my opinion, it does not matter to which leader the director belongs, most importantly, in order to remain a man in his position, do not lose his skills and grasp, and his case would be of interest to him