Jobs: Marseille Gilmanov - creator of narrow-profile social networks
Workplaces / / December 27, 2019
Today we have about the workplace will tell one of our regular readers. His life is very similar to most of his kind, but because his story is interesting, perhaps, all of you. His last project - social network Lovas.ru (profile).
What do you do in your work?
I am engaged in the creation and development of Internet-based products. Computer, I became interested in the 7th grade and quickly realized that I was interested in doing something different, and since then I mostly use the computer for games, something I wanted to do them development.
First it was the primitive application of the series: guess the number, go through the maze, etc. With the internet, I was not then sign, and his house was not so for the most part did everything at random, and focusing on lean and documentation examples. Once my father saw my success and the next day I bought a thick book on Delphi. After a while I started to do some serious game in real time using DirectX libraries, computer intelligence and spets.effektami.
Then I went to university and abandoned his hobby, but on 3 course, decided to go to work. I had not aimed to seriously start to work, and just wanted to understand what it means to work in the office, so long did not go to work when choosing a PC operator in a small company. There I quickly mastered the basics of web development, and I was offered to take over as webmaster. Six months later I managed IT-department, and then went into the design studio to manage projects, where parallel and began to do his own project Lovas.ru.
This project has a great interesting story that deserves a separate article, so talk about the other major projects are also noteworthy.
In the summer of 2008, I retired from the advertising holding Twiga engaged in raising startup StarLook.ru. This women's social network. In my task was to develop the concept, the design of all sections, set the team in the state, the selection deleted professionals, the development of all necessary documentation for the further development of the project and the launch of the project in operation. In general, all that is needed by the project manager on a startup. I did nothing programmed. Programming engaged only on your project Lovas.ru.
After that I was engaged in a very interesting and challenging projects for Google Russia and Red Bull in the work of the director of Internet projects BrandFashion advertising agency, and then joined the company KM-line as the head of a social network with an audience of over vKruguDruzei.ru 8 million. users.
Most of my free time I give my Lovas.ru project. Basically they do at home. Sometimes it stay later at work. Now I do not work anywhere, so my working place is at home.
How does your workplace?
At home I work at a laptop in their room or in the kitchen. In the kitchen, sometimes I smoke a hookah. The room - I connect the sound system and listen to music. Sometimes the work lying in bed - usually closer to the night. I like sometimes to sit in a cafe, where there is Wi-Fi. Most often in the Floor. Oddly enough, but noisy atmosphere good effect on my productivity. Sometimes even the house includes a quarter of the screen some series, to create a buzz. But not the TV - he was very distracting and annoying.
What hardware are using?
I prefer to work for a laptop to be able to deploy anywhere. Laptop Sony VAIO VPC S12M9R. Core i3 processor 2260 MHz, 4 GB memory, 13.3-inch screen, DVD-RW, HDD 500 GB. Generally, I like notbuki from Sony for the keyboard and the overall ergonomics. A small wireless mouse Trust with a small USB-module, which is almost not noticeable in a laptop. Sound System 2.1 Logitech S220 - a small amp and speakers for the home environment is more than enough.
Phone Google Nexus S. Very fond of Android OSes for the functionality, speed and especially for full integration with the Google-services. This unit is the last version of 2.3. As far as I know - so far only on this model. It is in this phone like a very bright screen and slightly curved shape of the device and the screen - looks very decent and nice in the hand.
Access point - ASUS RT-NI6. Printer / scanner / copier - Samsung SCX-4828FN.
In the summer when it is hot, connected to USB-fan laptop. Sometimes, to digress a bit steeper Power Ball.
What software use?
Operating System - Windows 7. I was with a laptop, but in any case, would have put it. One may criticize Microsoft, but Windows 7 was a success. I generally like Windows, it is closer to me. I tried to work on the Mac, but not inspired. Course Mac is much nicer, more responsive, less buggy, but I do not perceive it as OSes for the job. Is that for designers.
Browser - Google Chrome. I like speed and minimalism. There are a lot of advantages, which are already in other browsers (sync bookmarks and settings, for example), but I prefer just Chrome.
As an office suite mainly use web interfaces, the Google service - GMail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Contacts. This is one reason why I love on Android phones - can fully work with all tools from the phone. Add contacts to the phone book - he appeared in Google Contacts. For contact information, working on a computer - I said in Google Contacts, and they appeared in the phone. And so with all the services. Thus, for example, I have a lot of contacts in the phone accompanied by a photograph. By the way, I do not use a regular Google-account and Google Apps on Gilmanov.ru domain. I registered mail and Jabber - [email protected]. Still very much like in Google Docs possibility of group work with documents. Not enough except that some of the hot keys.
Also worth a browser plug-in Mail Checker Plus for Google Mail, notification of new messages. If the pop-up window immediately clear that spam has come - right there I press "Spam." If you just notice that you want to delete - press your right there "Delete". If merit - one click immediately turn to the letter.
For the organization of businesses using a document in Google Docs and SpringPad. Tasks linked to the time or reminders - zanoshu in Google Calendar. SpringPad is mainly used for the list of tasks that I may need on the road - all synchronized with your phone. C document on your phone to work is not as convenient. Well, the phone again synchronized calendar.
Messengers - QIP 2010 and Skype 5.1. In the first use ICQ and Google Talk. It `love for convenient organization of contacts and support for hot keys: flickered in the tray - Ctrl + Shift + I, wrote a reply, Ctrl + Enter, Ctrl + W, back to business. Really miss it on Skype - constantly having to pull the mouse back and forth. When I was at the computer, It `usually operates continuously online. Skype run occasionally as needed. Sounds from the messengers turned off to divert when it is very busy. And if you are not too busy, I note in the notification tray.
Just from the application using a conventional built-in calculator (sometimes you need something quickly count), notebook (quickly record something, or lose text formatting), FileZilla 3.4 (rolling out new releases on Lovas.ru), Zend Studio 7.2 (development), Photoshop CS5 64-bit, Adobe Illistrator CS5, IE Tester (to check the layout in different versions of IE), Putty 0.60, uTorrent 2.2, Media Player Classic 1.4.1 (x64), WM Keeper Classic (although I prefer Yandex. Money - to work with them through the web interface), antivirus Avast, Denwer development environment. MS Office should in any case, but especially do not use it. Unless MS Project, when you need to make taymplan and sometimes Visio to design layouts. In Google Docs have Visio counterpart, but it does not suit me in functionality and usability. Analogue of MS Project is also possible to connect to Google Docs, but I was not satisfied with the terms.
Is there a place in your paper work?
Article read with a notebook in a way sometimes read from the phone. List I have just synced to your phone. So that the paper is rarely used.
Is there a dream configuration?
Everything you need for work and I have the power and functionality. Is that not enough for a powerful server Lovas.ru, but so far most of the time is enough virtual dedicated server from Agava. In the near future I plan to move to Clodo Scale.