books writing

I'm currently thinking about the methods, that use peoples to write books about computers & other IT-related things. For a long time i want to write a book about Emacs, and its usage to solve different tasks, not stopping on description of default distribution of GNU Emacs. I have a plan of book (i want to describe too many things in one book ;-). This book should be something HOWTO guide on Emacs and different tasks solving.
Currently i have about 200 pages (in Russian), as an separate articles, that you can find on my writings page. But process of writing is very slow, and i thinking, how to speed up this process, and to start to search a publisher for book (first in Russian, but may be later, i do translation to English). So, peoples interested in this book, please leave comments about current articles, and also, about things, that you want to see in such book.

IT-related things at home

Last three month i was too lazy working at home for some it-related things. I continue to read books, see many video (google engEDU, Channel9, etc), sometimes working with computer for a long time, but this doesn't finish as a some project. Only one active project - translation to Russian of the "Introduction to functional programming". Project of creating open source web-filtering system (as full and more powerfull replacement of Dansguardian) was stopped, due some restrictions of my current employment contract. Project catdoc was stopped, as i lost interest to this branch.
So, i currently looking for interesting project, that allow me to get new skills in following branches - fuzzy logic, information retrieval, analyzis and categorization of information. If anybody has such projects, let me know - i'll work with pleasure.

new version control system at work

After long discussions and comparisons of mercurial and subversion, subversion wins, as it contain better support for windows developers (about half of our development team) - it has module for integrating with Visual Studio.
Today I had setted up a new repository, create projects and configure notifications. Installation come quit easy - subversion book contain all needed details for configuring almost any variant of repository - we had selected svn over webdav, with authentication against kerberos

Boost 1.34 release candidat is out

Today was released a release candidate of the long awaited version of Boost C++ libraries - 1.34. In this version there are new libraries (foreach, statechart and other) and many improvements in existing ones. Full list of changes is published in the mailing list.

Emacs 22.1 release is pending

Instead of releasing of new version of GNU Emacs at 23d April, developers of GNU Emacs release a new release candidate version - 22.0.99. In this version, from distribution was removed the python-mode, due it legal status

About internal threats

In last time, in internet was published many articles about internal threats. Main emphasis was made on the preventing the leakage of the sensitive information. I'm (and not only me (warning: in russian)) was interested, why there is so much interest for this, enougth old, topic - many companies already has such systems (at the middle of 2006 we had in Russia and CIS more than 200 installations of our Dozor-Jet filtering system), there are no interesting, new developements in this branch, etc.
For activities in Russian press i had some suspicions, that was conformed some time later - Infowatch company got big marketing budget, and spend it by publishing an marketing bullshit. But for foreign press the question is still open - most of the publication doesn't mention any solution directly, just publish information about the types of internal threats, etc. So, i'm continue to collect information about these publications, trying to deduce, who is stay behind them

boost 1.34 release?

Today in the boost-devel mailing list was a mail, that in monday will packaged first beta of the boost c++ libraries version 1.34. This is long awaiting release with many new features. If all will ok, than after 2 weeks will released a release candidat, and than - release

Article about new features in upcoming GNU Emacs 22.1

As i write at the previous post, i had updated my article (in Russian) about new features of upcoming GNU Emacs 22.1, that expected in near future. First version of this article was written almost 3 year ago, but many things remains unchanged.

more interesting boost libraries

I had found in Boost Vault an interesting library - Boost.Automata, that could be used to create dynamically configurable state machines. This library could be implemented to build application, that use neural networks, etc. But this library doesn't intended to be replacement for a Boost.Statechart library, that allow to implement static state machines.
Library looks very interesting, especially for one of my own projects ;-)

OpenSolaris starter kit

Yesterday i got the OpenSolaris Starter Kit, ordered some time ago. DVD box contain two disks. One disc contain Solaris Express Community Edition B57, and other disk contain live cd's of Nexenta, Belenix & Schillix, and you can select which live cd will used, from the boot menu. This disk also contain documentation and source code of OpenSolaris.
On my old Asus S5200N, successfully started only Belenix - all other distros hangs or fail on stage of running X Window System. For Belenix i had selected vesa driver and it works fine. Kernel had found ethernet & wifi card, but i can't configure wifi sucessfully (i need to know more about configuring wifi on Solaris), but i hope that i'll do this in future.
Results of testing, allow me to hope, that Solaris could my next desktop ;-)

tv on demand

Yesterday i got the mail from Joost with link to their software - to test their TV on demand technology. I had readed about joost long time ago, and i leave my e-mail address on their site, asking to try beta of the joost.
After downloading software and registering, i got access to the content. But content was not acceptable for me - i got only music, sport and other entertainment stuff :-(( May be this is problem of the beta stage, but i think, that after release, most of content will for entertainment. But i want to see news, and other things, not the entertainment - i have usual TV for this.
Is any body could provide a good links/software to see TV (news, educational) on demand?

long awaiting emacs22 is close now?

After long time, is seems, that new version of GNU Emacs almost ready to release. Latest pretest (22.0.97) will released 16th April, and if there is no problems, then Emacs 22.1 will released 23d April!
I had waiting this release many years - it has many new features and improvements. 3 years ago i had wrote an article (in Russian) about new features in upcoming Emacs release, and i'll update it for upcoming release.

implementation of strange things

Yesterday we had discussed a new product's architecture, and i asked to add some features, that will allow us to detect users activity, distributed in time. But this idea exists currently only in form of "crazy idea", without any concrete implementation notes :-(
But this idea is very interesting - it closely connected with fuzzy data analysis, and could find correlations between frequency of requests, commands, etc. These things is also applicable for advertising and web search, not only for content-filtering. It would be very interesting to make implementation of this idea ;-)

News from the previous work

Peoples from my previous work had reported, that in Japan had started a selling of web content filtering system, called Abitel@SKVT (for Japan market only). I had spend much time architect and develop (filtering part) this system. I'm very pleased, that system, that was born in my mind, got the real market.