Jobs: Andrew Turik: "Those who read the book will always be controlled by those who watch TV"
Workplaces / / December 27, 2019
Description of the workplace Andrew - one of the most voluminous in our collection, and for good reason - in a work he uses both the Mac and the PC, and has a contradictory feeling from the first. In the interview, you will find a lot of references to the programs and services of the multi-faceted and interesting person.
And in the end you will find interesting bonusAssociated with the work of Andrew away from work.
What do you do in your work?
Head of Internet projects in the advertising company WinWin Advertising. Actually, right now I alter all company sites. Let's cut out the FLASH :), updated design, optimize the structure, usability, optimized for mobile devices, etc. While we expand, I - the man department. I paint design, typeset, where necessary - was finishing on the jQuery, where it is necessary - "dopilivat CMS».
It so happened that after leaving the customs in front of me had to choose, what to do, I decided to engage the web. Clean design in modern reality scares me a little. Rarely interfere in the work of a programmer, usability experts, managers, prodazhnika, but all and sundry, consider themselves cool Spices design and begin to criticize the spirit: black - is in mourning, blue - is gay, minimalistic design - it's too easy and need to increase the premium by 42%, etc. I was always interested to monitor the whole process, because in addition to the design had to learn HTML, CSS, popular the CMS, usability. From CMS I love WordPress and Drupal. Yes, I Drupal evangelist! Recently, a small simple sites do not, therefore, see the WordPress rare.
In addition to working in the office has a number of "home" and joint projects, but so far more fame did not come there to be proud of nothing special. Everything rests on the lack of man-hours. Here, for example, Vote With Us puzomerki idea with beautiful graphics and come up with a friend from Germany a year ago. There had to learn PHP framework, drank a few Drupal modules and rewrite SQL queries in a cloud of places. Here I am only proud of himself as a "one man band". But still finish once the idea and the technical part. Or here's drawing T-shirtsBut without PR and time on it will not earn much.
How does your workplace?
I love to order on the desktop.
At home I have a place where you can paste all sorts of goodies, which are very important for my spoiled the beauty of the view. From the gallery, which is difficult to see:
Left - Ukrainian actor Bogdan Stupka, because the monitor looks at the helmet Salvador Dali,
left gray mass - Kantemirovskaya nanotankovaya division leads to the world of cache second level Pentium-IV processor. Every time she puts me in the mood.
Right still hung paper calendar for each month, and I wrote to TODO. But then he has come unstuck, and I decided to conduct more advanced cases. And the place I want to hang something nice looking, but shy child and guests :)
What hardware are using?
At work, I should iMac 29 ". Recently bought a iPad2, which benefits more than any other iron. On it I read your books. Those who read the book will always be controlled by those who watch TV ©
Houses PiSi obsolete computers, placed in the body "with the claim for reduced noise." Housing ok, but old fans on the processor and graphics card buzzing, not in itself. There is still an old scanner, which I translate the darkness of family photos in the figure, WiFi modem from the ISP Ukrtelecom and inkjet photo printer, which is gathering dust in the closet. I see no reason to print photos home.
There is also a Genius tablet - cheap garbage, but for non-artist with his head missing. The only negative - it is necessary to change the batteries in the pen. Last work was a Wacom Intuos, and it was divine.
After purchasing the New Year game console Nintento Wii computer almost did not play, except that in the strategy. She stitched, playing swing and write on it connected to the USB-screw. By the number of fan until it has no equal (for Kinect yet few games). Son, guests and co-workers happy. it also "pulls" the small-sized video files, such as serials. But mostly "I shoot a movie from your computer to the TV set" on ternary cable. Media player does not want to yet. Likely to buy cable aypada and will turn the movie with him. there is an excellent AVPlayer HD $ 3, which plays all without transcode.
After he died of old age on my smartphone Vindouz-Mobile, I "temporarily" has bought the cheapest phone "to call", the Nokia 1661 like. In it there is a flashlight, and charge it holds a week. Internet and other garbage I have enough at work, home and iPads, so while I'm happy with everything. However, a little lacking photo module and the Internet to take a picture and upload, for example, in the collective blog. So I want to see in the future, a bunch of Windows Phone 7 + Nokia. I would like to see on the platform of Microsoft (and yes, I like it) and poyuzat Carl Zeiss optics in Nokii. Android is not exactly want the darkness curve dopilivanie software and I do not need. And yet he had a nasty interface.
What software use?
At work regularly use DreamWeaver for coding and layout, Photoshop + Flash + Ilyustrator for design. MAMP as a test web server, Filezilla like ftp-client. It is also worth parallels with Vindouz 7, but only to test websites on all your favorite versions of Explorer. To "Seven" stands IE9 plus program IETesterWhich includes 4 versions of IE.
On your Mac is worth OS Snow Leopard, which I am not very happy. This is my first acquaintance with the Makos, before EPL fanboys were told that this is the ideal operating system and I'm waiting for a miracle. I do not want to start holivar, but it is far from ideal. Tell me why I do not line up icons on the size of the window and you have to scroll horizontally? I have, incidentally, sometimes wildly freezes. And my director Mail program with regular intervals takes all the boxes in the offline mode and forgets all passwords of SMTP-servers. Just do not say that our OC curve set. "There's also turned on, and that's it to you, your long-awaited happiness." A aytyunza brake makes me want to sit down, hug the head with his hands and weep bitterly.
(Actually, wrong to compare separately taken poppy and separately taken PiSi. Iron Mack divine. Almost all PiSi dull little more than full. About the OS will not say which is better, I personally like Vindouz 7. Makos are cheaper, but in conjunction with an expensive computer that is what comes out. Brakes and buggy both.
I can not find a music player Makos to understand all formats loseless my home library. now stands SoundBirdBut he, like everyone, .cue files are lifts and instead track sees a long track-record. In this regard, the ideal player foobar2000 Vindouz under which I have at home. I ask readers LH advise omnivorous player under MacOS. I want to listen to the kind of lamp flac + cue + ape on the Mac :)
At home I Vindouz 7. Very happy with it. It is worth one and a half years, I hung once (and my work Mac for half a year 2 times). Well, I put antivirus Avast, it is not needed on a Mac. Well, yes, I run scheduled defragmentation. I do not know whether it is necessary on the Mac.
With the brakes at the start helps Soluto program (set on the advice of forestry). After suddenly dropped the head on the surface of my hard drive, and he died, use Acronis True Image HomeThat every Saturday makes the image of the system and individually - all data on an external hard drive. Vindouz restore from an image has never had, but I do, just in case. Also worth: VmwareAnd her Vindouz XP, because I have an old scanner that does not have 64-bit drivers for the operating system, and the manufacturer wrote, "and do not dream." Once scanned all pictures - I forget about XP.
Most free software put in one go using the service Ninite.
Messenger - Skype only. ICQ is not as a customer but as a protocol, all deleted and forgotten, as there should appear and all you start to send "prikolchiki and Temko" with chips. Not. Apparently, the people of this ICQ. I wrote a farewell to "smack. I'm on Skype "and deleted. Most adequate people there and then found me on Skype.
All pictures in the store Lightroom in several separate bases: the family, work and such :)
Twitter client - TweetDesk. That on the Mac, which is PiSi.
Of non-standard software on Vindouz worth:
SNET Tech trucker - monitoring the newer versions of the software on Vindouz.
TagScanner - massively ruled my musical replenishment for order in my profile Last.fm.
Mail before reading only Autluk. Once more I had a smartphone VinMobayl, wonderfully evolved to contacts, tasks, notes, etc. When the question arose synchronize all this stuff with a home computer and work Vindouz machine, I can not think of anything smarter as a data file through a fumble Dropboks. Who moved entirely in Gmail and have no regrets.
Single story with a browser. I have long been an ardent fan of the Opera, and I still think the Opera browser steep, but recently I switched to Chrome. Not because I was at the opera something is missing, or I do not like her job. After supporting plug-ins out there everything was all gorgeous. It is something else. Some developers artificially restrict access to their services for Opera users. It was annoying. The same Google such trades or Facebook. For example, video of Facebook did not work in Opera. But if in the settings Opera tick "presented as of Firefox", everything worked. That is, in the code somewhere stupidly was about the test for protection against unpopular in the West browsers:
IF BROWSER <> (IE or FF or Safari or Chrome)
THEN FAIL = 1
In Chrome now from basic LastPass for passwords, SpeedDial 2 for frequently visited sites (the Opera is built and wonderfully synchronized between computers in contrast to this plugin).
On the advice of forestry trained himself when surfing to share information. Now, by pressing the button on the plug-in manuals are in Evernote, something interesting "read later" goes into Instapaper, something useful in the work, such as web services, go to the tab.
Here tabbed there is one point that I can not solve. There are at work and at home Chrome. And there aypad which is tied to the home Vindouz car. How to sync your bookmarks? Xmarks has found and thought, this is it salvation. For Vindouz have a client that syncs your bookmarks with Xmarks-IE. And already in synchronization aypada in aytyunze have the option of where to get your bookmarks: from the desktop Cafari or IE. Happiness was so close, but that's not want I aytyunz taken from IE9 tab. Only from Safari. Perhaps the developers Aytyunz under Vindouz task gives users the feeling of hatred to his computer. I dont know. In addition, he is quite inadequate Xmarks syncs and creates duplicates. Now there is a thought simply upload bookmarks to internet to services like Delicious, and iPads just to open your profile URL to your bookmarks. If readers are offered a perfect, I'll be happy. Only juzat Safari do not offer.
We should also mention Dropboks, which I put in my time, too, on the advice of forestry and pump it up to 11 GB. Now there are a lot of folders to rummage with different teams for different projects. There is a separate folder for card sharing with parents. For example, for the pope conveniently carefully put fresh pictures in high quality or video. Dad came in the morning to work, and there are 100 pictures in the folder, which he understands, not a letter referring to the .rar archive on Yandex, or, God forbid, on rapidshare.
Of the working services worth mentioning Freedcamp - free project manager. I Tried on the advice of forestry. However, for the same team, I suggested a number of services, and collectively, we chose it. While his free functional enough. That is for the team with which we try to do a magazine Freedcampa bit lacking. We need a CRM-module for organizing contacts. While I look aside Rule.fm (It's free) or, if possible, the buy then the CRM-module for Freedcampa.
For personal Taxco like: "Buy milk babulenke" or "write for the LH on the workplace" I use Wunderlist - he's cute.
Is there a place in your paper work?
I print very, very rarely at work. I do not understand why to plant the paper bureaucracy. For aypada bought iMockups and now prototipiruyu web interfaces there. He shedevralen. While there is still home to a marker board. Too cool thing. You can draw something great and incomprehensible and kakby inadvertently left in full view of guests.
I read everything on iPads in PDF or RSS. 90% fresh infy get there. Many receive from social services, but when you go there every day, it is lost, and everything is uyutnenko formed in RSS.
Often see in the transport of people reading news from web sites printed on 10 sheets with a cap, banners, footer, etc. It seems to me fair to give these people the environmentalists on the experiment.
Is there a dream configuration?
Yes, but it is not expressed in gigahertz. Just a powerful computer to Civilization 5 is not hampered, and that it could not be heard. I really like the iron of the Apple products, so I want to go home Apple Cinema Display monitor, and make it the primary. Total I will have dual-monitor system. For the developer / designer is very cool, verified by experiment. At work, too, I want a second monitor. More I want to go home Apple Magic Mouse. Only if it is not regularly fall off, both on the Mac. Mac still does not want to. I am waiting for Windows 8. Preview I like.
Call me eccentric, but I also really want to moddingovy body of a drum of the washing machine.
My comfort zone is not limited to a computer, so I'm still looking for some turntable and dream about the legendary Ball-chairWhere I will sit with my reap Like iPads, harvesting and do retweet Research The under warm tube sound.
Bonus LH:
So Andrew looked in his childhood (as we stared at R2D2, he has played :)
And even dabbled lightsaber at granny in the village:
And yet, for all fans of the Star Wars universe I recommend "Stories stormtroopers«.