Jobs: Konstantin Kalinov - founder and director of aviasales.ru

What do you do in your work?

Now fully engaged in the Russian Travel. I supervise Aviasales.ruMade Hotel website Hotelresearch.ru. The plans to create their own search engine for hotels.

As for the history of all this ugliness, interest ebiznesu arose immediately. Doubt that the money online has not been, and after 2000, the year he lost his job, got to understand exactly where and how the money can be earned.

Engaged in all accidentally fell into hosting. In 2003, we wrote a rather special traffic analyzer, and it turned out that the client's interests, not only software, but also the server that is configured for it, support and administration. So we did yeshost.ru. I and after the sale of the company keep their projects there.

Aviasales.ru made in 2008 for himself, once again winter in Phuket. The first version was a blog on WordPress. I signed up for our Newsletter airlines to save on airline tickets. With my flight number came out a few thousand dollars in savings per year.

In 2009, we tightened the search and comparison of prices aviabiletnym agencies. C are now working in several online agencies connect to the issuing airline and the search engines.

How does your workplace?

Office by the sea, in the office tables, chairs, kitchen, guest room, coffee, soft sofas, air conditioning.

Once it so happened that my wife and I spent several winters in Phuket, got friends here, we can say rooted. Thailand comfortable easy visa regime and an excellent climate. Besides the Thais are very welcoming and helpful people.

The question as to where we will work for me at all was uniquely Phuket. However, the winter of 2009-2010 had to stay in St. Petersburg, my son was born, and we did not dare to fly a month-old baby. During this time, I typed in Russian programmers and managers, put together a team and almost ready up we moved the office to the beach.

Sometimes I work from home, but I do not have such a workplace at home. Either I'm sitting with a laptop in the living room or in the gazebo.

What hardware are using?

Now my MacBook Air with a maximum upgrade bought as recently as the end of February. Prior to that, he was 3 MacBook Pro 15 "is the first unibody enclosure. I have one computer that can not stand the timing and other pleasures of owning multiple machines. The second monitor also somehow not caught on.

The Russian media center based MacMini, regularly works for the fifth year. Thanks to this wonderful device I completely forgot how to use the TV. Houses in Thailand some giant home theater, dish, DVD and some other things, but I see these four hefty console, I'm lost and I refuse to use them. I need a mouse, keyboard, MacOSX and internet, everything else is not done for the people.

I do not gadzhetoman, on the contrary, prefer to carry a minimum of equipment and things in general. Everything, including money, documents and keys should be placed in a maximum of 2 pockets. Thus I could not fend off the iPhone. I had all the models, except 3GS. A fourth died in a strange way, had to "roll" on the broken-decent 3G. Aypada reason there =)

Almost all employees of 13 MacBook Pro. In the office, there was one computer with XP wine for testing in the Explorer interface. In the office, some default router that distributes WiFi, AudioCodes to it, a piece of iron through which we get from St. Petersburg phone number in the Thai office. Linksys home patched receiver DD-WRT + repeater, large villa, not everywhere WiFi is good gets.

In St. Petersburg apartment as much as 3 internet, adsl + 2 cable operator. All this is being routed and balanced an old kompik on Linux. Such redundancy heritage since the hosting control when communication should have been 99.99%. I'd be in Thailand is organized, but here the choice of providers, frankly, not rich. Connected to the local 3BB, sometimes the Internet falls, guys come with bamboo ladders and something darn wires.

Aviaseylz lives on 3 servers, all dual-processor Xeon 56 series from 24 to 48gb of memory. Tale Ryde with excess + mirroring a small basket for backup. Do not tell that to the Enterprise, but close to that for a reasonable price.

What software use?

Mac OS X 10.6.7, had to climb into the bull's-eye in order to compare. Mack disaccustoms bother of unnecessary information. The main browser - Safari, for the needs of SEO - firefox, less chrome. Adium - the best IM client, in my opinion. ICQ, Jabber, GTalk, Facebook, Vkontakte, all in one place. Another would be to natively Skype shove, prices would not be. Mail to gmail, since using multiple boxes, put MailPlane. Gmail interface is considered the best and unbeatable. I would like to take a look at the promised new mail.
As a staging system tasks using pivotaltracker.com. For programmers' problems at all an invaluable thing.

configuration dreams

Config dream, a handheld with an iPhone-sized device that you can plug in something like docking station (in the office, the airport, at home or elsewhere) and get your own computer with a full keyboard and the screen. Something similar has presented at the last Cebit whether Dell, whether HP.

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