Jobs: Dmitry Podzyvalovsky, engineer software quality assurance

Today in our section "Jobs" Dmitry Podzyvalovsky - engineer software quality assurance company Offshore Creations and part of a happy father of two sons and the beautiful daughter. Dmitry is a user of Ubuntu and Windows 7, as well as at the time he had the opportunity to work c Apple products, so that he have something to tell you.

What do you do in your work?

Since 2004 I work as an engineer for software quality assurance company Offshore Creations. During that time, I passed through my hands a lot of interesting software, a variety of sites, games, corporate pages on facebook. About the same time, the end of 2004, I had my introduction to blogging and as a result, at the dawn of standalone-blogging started SoftReview. There were a few blogs that I conducted at different times, but now, in his spare time, I was interested in doing the technical part of blogging, helping friends and acquaintances than to write something in his.

How does your workplace?

When I started to work at home, the most difficult thing was to decide on the workplace. The laptop is quite free to relate to this issue, so that at first had to discipline himself, then got used. Now it looks like this-so.

What hardware are using?

In 2009 was acquired by Compaq Notebook 610 (15.6 "/ Intel Core 2 Duo T5870 2.0 GHz / 2GB / 320GB / Intel GMA X3100), which to this day does its job. In general, the house is now four working computer: his wife - odinnadtsatidyuymovy pink Sony VAIO, come on replace veteran Samsung R20, which is passed from her to the eldest son and the desktop, which is owned by the average child. In general, the iron, it is currently, the ordinary. All of this is tied to the network using the TL-WR741ND router. So in the end the entire list, but not the least important is the Samsung i5800 smartphone with a funny green robot on board. In addition to actively working iron stores various components that are waiting in the wings to be transformed into a small home server, but this is plans in the bins homeland.

What software use?

Almost all computers in the house are running Windows 7, such as, perhaps, the most adequate from a Microsoft creations and only after WinXP veteran R20 (whose name is gently R2-D2) age is not made such chic - left him XP. But since much talk about jobs, not all computers in the house, the more detail about my work laptop. In addition to Windows 7, which is necessary for work, I have installed Ubuntu 11.10, though, to be honest, since seven on my laptop changed whist - spend more and more time in Windows.

One of my main working tool is the browser, so installed and updated to the latest versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and MS Internet Explorer. In addition, when there is a need to check something in the earlier versions of Firefox - comes to the rescue Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection. But with such a collection of IE to test I did not work out, so testing in different versions of IE, as well, and under other operating systems I use Oracle VirtualBox.

No less important tools for the job - a program for taking screenshots and screencasts. For a long time with this great skill JingThen it changed more advanced products from the same company SnagIt and Camtasia Studio.

With access to the full set of browsers, I prefer Firefox. Apparently, it's love, since version 1.7. At the time, many wrote about extensions for it in his blog. Who is the most frequently used extensions - Delicious Bookmarks, Gmail Manager, XMarks, Evernote Web Clipper.

Twitter-Client - HootSuite (Twitter Dmitry @dmitrop), but for none of Facebook client is not caught, I use only the "native" interface.

The main means of communication - Skype, sometimes I use Google Talk, but it happens less and less. From desktop email clients long abandoned in favor of the Gmail interface. Work e-mail to connect to one of your accounts to Google Apps, and the main Gmail account takes a few more letters Mailboxes that allows you to centrally run multiple accounts through a web interface or Gmail client on Android. Notification of work email, I use an extension for Firefox - Gmail Manager, from the notification letters in a personal Gmail account refused altogether, just check once an hour and a half, when I do break work.

For backup and card sharing files I use Dropbox and Box.net. And what should a backup, as they say, on the fly - is sent to Dropbox through the utility Folder Sync, and with Box.net work only through the web interface, trying to map a network drive via the WebDav protocol - was not satisfied with the speed work. Both of these services are often used to transfer files to your smartphone, Android-benefit of customers for them are quite good.

Responsible for organizing tasks Doit.im. I became acquainted with this application, when it was sold only on Adobe Air, now Doit.im got not only a decent web-based, but also versions for iPhone, Android, iPad, Windows, and the Mac, for that reason at the time declined in favor of Doit.im Remember The Milk.

Very much I love to listen to an audiobook, which set a smartphone and a laptop doubleTwist - at one time a very like the interface of Android-application and a convenient Windows-version was the last straw for choosing this programs.

As the description of the software used a desire to write a few posts in their blogs on this topic, so thanks to you, may be in the near future razrozhus two-three notes. ;)

Is there a place in your paper work?

Very few, sometimes in the course of the project or in the process of discussion to make notes on the paper, there is still sometimes like to draw something, when I think.

Is there a dream configuration?

At one time, at work, I had to face tight with Apple products, has started with the eMac running under Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, were then Mac mini and iMac, and of course all of this could not fail to leave a mark on my preferences. On the other hand, the preferred configuration is defined by the tasks that will be carried out on it, so if we consider the configuration dreams now - I am inclined to 13 "Sony VAIO in conjunction with a 24 "monitor, some parts of the gland that same configuration will be determined immediately prior to purchase, so now vaguely imagine what it is will be.