I'm now Editor in chief of the on-line journal "Startupers RU".
It's about innovative startups and interesting people. Also translations of interesting articles are publishing at Startupers.

I like very much Paul Graham's essays. So it's published at Startupers too.
I'm reading Web Worker Daily very long time. And now I'm doing Russian translations of interesting articles from it for Startupers.

Here, in Russia and Ukraine we enjoy innovations and like to read about it.

I'm developing a service for myself - "BiCards - Create & Share business cards online". Service now in beta stage.

The purpose of the project - draw business cards on-line as with desktop publishing software. It's don't requires registration. You open page with new business card and edit it. Different fonts, colors, effects available. Editing is based on "drag-n-drop" of items. Own logotypes accepted.

Application produces high quality resolution image for perfect printing. Also you may continue to edit your business card later. Personal information secured by PIN code.

It's easy to share business card. Every user get his own URL. For example this is My business card.

Social web already have made us friendlier and open for communication.

But all we're dependent on owners of social services. All our data is stored on their servers and fully accessible by their staff. There is no real privacy. For example: I have some posts that available only for my friends or only for me. But, I can't be sure that this personal information not be viewed by 3rd party.

Only thing I have – trust to social network's owners.

I think OpenSocial from Google will made us more free from social networks' owners. With OpenSocial technology "… you can host your application on your own servers …" or even "… build a complete social app with no server at all …".

For example, I may buy own domain, rent a server and install social CMS like SocialPress. That's all! My own social network is ready. It's hosts only my data and fully under my control. Also I can get my old personal data from FaceBook or any other network. If I would like to post private message – it remain private. My social data will become independent of Facebook owners or somebody else.

I think, this is the future of the Web - billions of the Personal Social Networks.

Konkursof.Net is Russian free online service, allows visitors to participate in contests and competitions.
Contests are free and fun prizes available for winners. Also available YouTube's video content to use by members of service.

Project based on: Django framework and Python programming language.

My role in project: Independent contractor.
Customer: "Konkursof net", LLC.

My responsibilities in project:
- design of database layer
- design of HTML pages, CSS layout
- configuration of Unix server for project

Technologies used:
- Django framework
- YouTube API
- JQuery JavaScript framework
- PIL image libary
- GMail communication

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Tired to find a good developer? Don't know who is able to do the whole project?
Let's hire developer to do a prototype!

Fast prototyping - this is why I love Python. It's core for agile development.

Prototyping is cheap and extremely fast. Spend 2-3 days to get clear results - is this guy right man for the job or not.

Most people afraid of long term projects. They simple don't know about light-weight methodologies called
"Agile software development". This is the way of creating software in a lighter, faster, more people-centric way.

Here are some principles:
   - Simplicity
   - Customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software
   - Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted
   - Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months)
   - Working software is the principal measure of progress
   - Even late changes in requirements are welcomed
   - Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers
   - Self-organizing teams
   - Regular adaptation to changing circumstances

Fewer staff, higher levels of competency - and your project will be done.

Manage Tasks with your iPhone - http://gettingtasksdone.com/iphone/

With Django framework it's was easy to adapt service to Apple's iPhone. Most of work was to design right templates of the pages. Screen of device has resolution 320x356 pixels. Not so much. And all needed data must be available to the user. So main concepts of application's design - less is more. Only necessary information displayed on the screen and it's easy to access.

Screenshots:

Getting tasks done! is online free service, allows it's members to manage their tasks simple and quick.

"Getting tasks done!" service is based on David Allen's "Getting Things Done" amazing book and positive thinking. All things you do in your life are your achievements. You are what you think. You feel what you want.

Every day we have a couple of small and big aims and purposes. Right self-management may improve productivity greatly. It also helps achive more in live. "Getting tasks done!" helps to deal with tasks and remember achievements. Looking at own achievements make future work more motivated.

Project based on: Django framework and Python programming language.

My role in project: Independent contractor.

My responsibilities in project:
- functional design
- design of database layer, objects and models
- design of pages layout, CSS and HTML coding
- design of "Whiteboard" workplace
- design of "My Achivements" report
- configuration of Unix server for project

Technologies used:
- Django framework
- JQuery JavaScript framework
- DOM manipulations
- inline content editing

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My score: 3.02.
Scored higher than 55% of all previous test takers.

Demonstrates a solid understanding of core concepts within this topic.
Appears capable of working on most projects in this area with moderate
assistance. May require some initial assistance with advanced concepts,
however.

Strong Areas
* Classes
* Built-in Features

Weak Areas
* Standard Library
* Language

Site http://creditjusticeservicesmarketingcenter.com – marketing center of Credit Justice Services company. This web-application provides company's partners with on-line store and visual editors for creating corporate business cards, flyers, postcards etc.

Project based on: Django framework and Python programming language.

My role in project: Independent contractor.

My responsibilities in project:
- design of database layer
- design of objects relations model
- design of WYSIWYG editors
- CSS and HTML coding
- providing database with initial SQL data
- configuration of Unix server for project

Technologies used:
- Django framework
- JQuery JavaScript framework
- PIL imaging library
- DOM manipulations in HTML pages
- drag&drop content editing
- JPEG images generation on a server

Screenshots:

Global tracking system "KRASTRACK"
http://krastrack.ru

"KRASTRACK" is a vehicles tracking system. Application provides web-based GPS tracking services for a "fleet" of vehicles. It's based on Global Positioning System and Google Maps technologies.

Project based on: Django framework and Python programming language.

My role in project: Independent contractor.
Customer: LuxSoftware

My responsibilities in project:
- design of database layer
- design of objects relations
- design of administrative back-end
- design of forms and reports

Technologies used:
- Django ORM
- Google Maps API
- Users authentication and secure access to data
- AJAX is used for interactive reports
- XHTML is used in pages' templates
- CSV files generating on a server

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