Jobs: Ruslan Kuli-Zade, web developer, creator of educational social network "Mozgobarter"
Workplaces / / December 27, 2019
We bring you the story of Ruslan Kuli-Zade, the creator of the educational social network "Mozgobarter" and developer living in Riga. He recounts his time management system, built on the Outlook, other interesting programs and its relation to the information noise overwhelms the internet.
What do you do in your work?
I usually occupied by two parallel lines - the launch of start-ups (and here I speak as a manager and developer directly), and, in fact, work in order as freelancer programmer. My current project is the first direction - mozgobarter.ru - an educational social network offering everyone to give and receive advice and lessons.
The second direction at the moment - it's flash programming - namely, the development of games.
How does your workplace?
In principle, everything is pretty standard. Since I moved recently in Riga, and in general often have to travel, my main machine - laptop (Dell Vostro A860), since he copes with most of my problems. For graphics there is a device with a large display - Samsung SyncMaster F2080.
What hardware are using?
Laptop: Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 560 @ 2.13 GHz, 2.13 GHz, 2 Gb RAM.
Already rare sistemnik to "monitor»: AMD Athlon ™ 64 Processor 3200+ 2,01 GHz, 2,00 Gb RAM.
Monitor Samsung SyncMaster F2080, 20 inches.
Separately, you can select for Laptop (Titan G4), which helps to remove the hot air from under him, and perhaps a mouse without batteries, but "with a rug» A4 tech NB-30D. The mouse button is even a "double click". Rug remarkable including the fact that I have long faced a problem - in different places on different surfaces, different mouse refuse to work or work buggy. Now, when the mouse mat on - part of the device, such a problem does not arise. Although, of course, you can carry a conventional pad, but it is not the same :)
Actually, until recently, I have this little strained, know that iron is time to change, the more I do not like to do it on a regular basis, so I'm all at once somewhere once in five years. This primarily refers to the system unit.
As the phone - communicator HTC P3400. Conveniently, that can be synchronized with Outlook calendar and contacts.
What software use?
Probably I will not be original - a long time ago is worth XP, and somehow there was no reason to change. What for? As far as I know, there is a need due to current tasks - as well as not cool, you need something else, and it's not my case. Another option - the ideological people who just do not like the Bill of (here, a lot of things) and put the same principle for Linux. But I'm quite a respectful attitude to the Microsoft, well, maybe I'm not as ideological.
Browsers use different, the funny thing is that basically - because of the various built-in translators. The main - Google Chrome for speed, but I do not like that it takes "all or nothing". Sometimes, given the quality of the translation, the page I want to read in English, and pry only unintelligible words. For this problem I have is with the Mozilla translator from Yandex - just directing to different words, I see the translation. Of course, I assume that the same thing can be done by other methods.
With messengers another story. In general, the attitude towards them I quite rigid - the smaller, the better. This distracts from the work, and provokes distract yourself. If the employment is sometimes it seems permissible (the work is done, the boss walking can even chat with someone?), It is not itself able to organize a freelancer or entrepreneur, to put it mildly, a lot of loses in comparison with those who could, as the principle of "time is money" here takes literal meaning. Another thing is that just a freelancer messengers are needed for the job. Then it is better to include them in the planned (and the agreed advance) time to discuss all the key issues on and off. Yes, probably, the alternative may be to sit in a stealth - but this, too, can be distracting. It is better to teach people to write to the post office. And the messengers of course, a Skype is now out of the competition, all the rest need only when it is not.
About blogs, Twitter and all the same. When I read a lot of them (and there was a time - has worked in this field), I used Yandex tape and google reader. But now I hardly see the point. 1-2 times a week I go to the really interesting blogs to me, and for that (oddly enough) Share fit better than any belt. Get off at the continuous reading of all kinds of news - for me this is a bad habit, like nail biting or chat about anything, and all I recommend to get rid of it, sitting on an information diet. Of course, this does not apply to lifehacker.ru :)
As for the rest in terms of organization, the answer is three: outlook 2007 (remember even once read Archangel book about time management on it and something from there took), google docs and the program "Hronokontrol». mail can be collected in the outlook on all mailboxes, contacts, write notes, and if necessary - to synchronize with a PDA. Once upon a time I was very interested in the question, I read a lot of literature on time management and work organization. After thinking carefully, I realized that with my work "classic" time management will approach better total: schedule the goals for the day, set aside to prioritize and plan the estimated time for many tasks. In principle, the main recommendation of GTD-type techniques (not to keep anything in my head) I have complied with this - indeed, all inscribed in the plans. While the rest for regular use of the GTD and I do not take it. I think that too often we are afraid to seek simplicity and complicate things :)
About google docs of those people to whom they can be useful, most probably already knows.
But "Hronokontrol" - a very useful service, which I would like to recommend here. For those who do not know, it locks the computer for 10 minutes in an hour (there are other modes to choose from), pulling out of the routine, making the move away from the computer and do whatever you like, for example, exercise. It has long ago been proved experimentally and I checked up on itself - with frequent mandatory rest breaks you may be running within days, and then do more. And it would be great as it is very useful for the organism (or rather bad for a long time to sit still).
Is there a place in your paper work?
Paper I at a minimum: contracts, invoices and other "accounting", folding separately, to look at it once again do not like.
Is there a dream configuration?
I do not know what about the dreams, rather there is a purpose for the coming months. Firstly, it is high time to update the hardware to work with graphics. Secondly, I have long been interested in the latest drive the GTA, 5 th civilization, crysis-2 and 6-x characters that are on their way, putting the graphics settings close to the maximum :) Because somewhere for the new year look after something like what he saw in one online store and said how "optimal model 2011":
Processor Intel Core i3-2120 3,3GHz = $ 139
AMD Athlon II X4 645 Processor 3,1GHz = $ 112
M / P Gigabyte GA-PH67A-UD3 Intel H67 Socket 1155 = $ 118
M / P Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 Socket AM3 AMD 870 = $ 114
RAM Kingston CL7 2x2GB DDR3 1333 MHz = 63 $
The GeForce GTX 460 1024MB GDDR5 = $ 185
or
The Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 = $ 185
Winchester WD WD1002FAEX 1000GB SATA3 = $ 94
DVD ± RW GH-22LS50 LG SATA = $ 25
B / R Chieftec APS-500S = $ 61
Casing Thermaltake M5 = $ 55
Selecting components price ± 709-740 $
More specifically, you will need to think closer to buying.
Generally, when you are engaged in game development, we have to think about the ethics of this pastime (more socially valuable projects such as "Mozgobartera" such issues do not cause and be proud of them easier), but I think that with the skillful use of appropriate people, games are only joy.
Because adults realize that it is - just a fun (and very average), but the greatest pleasure can deliver yet not a game, but a strong and complex project (in any field can be in the office, and can, on the sports field), which is managed implement. What everybody and wish :).