RailsClub'Moscow 2013. Interview with Frederick Chang (Frederick Cheung)
Believe it or not, but only 3 days are left before the start of the 12th Ruby Developers Conference of Rails Club Moscow Moscow!
Tickets can still be ordered here, and you can still get acquainted with the participants of the event in our blog. Efficient thoughts, principles / beliefs and even plans for the weekend were drawn from our delegates through interviews: Ernie Miller , Eric Hodl , Jeremy Evans , Linda Liukas , as well as Peter Zotov and Dmitry Vorotilin have already talked with us. Next in line are revelations from Fred Chang, Dressipi technical director and winner of the 2012 Ruby Hero Award
Interviews are published with original answers in English and our free translation.
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When and why did you start programming?
My first programming memory: a father shows me simple C programs on the flickering orange VAX terminal at work — perhaps I just wanted to be like him! We wrote several Hypercard stacks together, and finally, on my 12th or 13th birthday, I received a copy of Discover Programming (a compressed version of Metrowerks’s now-missing Codewarrior IDE) and a book on C. Now the idea is to pay for development tools It seems absurd, but at that time there were not so many free tools for Mac.
I’m showing you what I’ve been listening to. It was a copy of the Programming Programming (it was a copydown version of the Metrowerks ’now defunct Codewarrior IDE). at the time there weren't many free tools for the Mac.
What are you working on right now?
Most of the time it takes work at Dressipi. Together with my team, I develop an online virtual services stylist services, which is partly based on expert advice, partly - on the engine with recommendations. I recently spent my free time with several RubyMotion projects.
Work at Dressipi has been taken up most of my time. I’m a team of experts who are on the Internet. Recently I've been a few projects in my spare time.
What is the best and worst part of your job?
I have to solve a wide range of problems, and I am absolutely free to choose a solution. I love working in small companies where I can feel how my work can actually change the direction of development and the future of the company. It is difficult to give someone the right to solve a really interesting task! It is still not easy to balance work and life outside it, but the worst is the road to work, which takes 2 hours each way. In addition, I don’t have as much time as I would like to keep up with technological innovations.
I get to tackle a lot of freedom. I love you. To solve! It is nearly 2 hours each way. I also like it.
What do you consider your main achievement in life / career at the moment?
I had a great time in previous work at Texperts. We started as a small British company, and then we were acquired by an American company, and our advertising was played during the Super Bowl. Receiving the Ruby Hero award in 2012 was an unexpected but pleasant surprise. Up to 20 years, I spent a lot of time writing Speed ​​Download - shareware tool for Mac. In general, this is not so much, but I think we managed to sell somewhere around 100 thousand, and this is without external financing. Although it distorts me when I review part of the code! The first 4 years I did not even use a controller version.
We had an amazing time at Texperts (my previous job). It was during the Superbowl. Winning a Ruby Hero award in 2012 was an unexpected but welcome surprise. In my late teens I spent a lot of time, I wrote a shareware tool for the Mac. Although it is small overall, copies with no outside funding. I cringe when i look back at some of the code though! For the first 4 years I didn’t even use version control.
What is the purpose of your career and professional development?
Early retirement and go to a tropical paradise with high-speed Internet.
Paradise with hi-speed internet.
What helps a programmer to grow professionally?
Never allow the coding process to become a routine work. You need to continue to write code for fun, whether it is an open-source project or you are just busy at home with some kind of fixed idea.
Never let it only become a day job. If you have been a contributor to it.
What book would you recommend to read to any programmer?
I have never really developed a relationship with books on programming, I bought them in such a quantity that many simply did not finish reading. Although I liked the book “Understanding Computation” by Tom Stewart: it is always great to return to the postulates that we take for granted and consider the underlying concepts.
I bought it. It was still a matter of understanding.
What do you like to do when you don't write code?
Programming does not leave me a lot of free time, but I love to read, play video games and table tennis.
But I’m not reading much.
Thanks for the interview and see you in Moscow!
We invite everyone to the RailsClub'Moscow 2013 conference. Traditionally, we will feed, give presents, hold contests and lotteries, play good music :) There will be a lot of interesting and informative.
Registration and payment of participation in the conference . Hurry up! Tickets for 8 000 rubles are already running out, have time to buy.
Undev.ru is a strong development team for Ruby, Objective C, C ++, C #, JavaScript. They are working on the creation of a unique technological platform for television broadcasting via the Internet. On the basis of this platform were made such major projects as Web elections 2012, SPIEF, broadcast Vancouver and London Olympiads, and several more projects of a similar scale.
Aviasales.ru is Russia's first and largest Internet search engine for cheap air tickets. This is a project with monthly attendance of more than 2.5 million users and additional functions for finding hotels, insurance and car rental services. The company employs approximately 60 people. The headquarters and 80% of the employees are located on the beautiful sunny island of Phuket in the Kingdom of Thailand. The technology stack includes RoR / Redis / RabbitMQ / MySQL.
SocialQuantum is one of the leading developers and publishers of gaming applications for social networks and mobile platforms in Europe. The company's games are available on iOS and Android platforms, as well as on Russian social networks and on Facebook.
The applications of the company “Social Quantum” consistently occupy the first places in the ratings of mobile games, as well as leading positions in Russian social networks.
GitHub is the most effective way to do software together, and this application is not important for your company, an open source library or just a project for a couple of days. GitHub provides tools for collaborative development on any device, making it easier. Start today - hosting open-source projects for free!
Lookatme is a modern online magazine for young people, with an audience of over 1.7 million monthly users. The project was developed on Ruby on Rails, therefore, traditionally, Lookatme helps our conference. In LAM'e work very creative and interesting people. Not a big, but very solid and friendly team.
Wheely - the international service of personal drivers. Mercedes unbranded cars, convenient ordering and payment through a mobile application, quality service. Wheely mobile service application is available on three platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and also full-featured as a web service from any browser. The company employs 29 people, the development office is located in Moscow, the main technologies: Ruby, Node.js and Go.
Stay up to date with our news by subscribing to the newsletter on the website railsclub.ru , and stay tuned for updates:
railsclub.ru
http://twitter.com/#!/railsclub_ru
www.facebook.com/railsclub
By the way, we are actively looking for sponsors. Offer to sponsors
Developing your Ruby project? Ruby brings you money? Does ruby ​​make you happy? Make a contribution to the development of Ruby in Russia! Become a sponsor of the largest Russian Ruby on Rails conference! Help us make RailsClub better!
Tickets can still be ordered here, and you can still get acquainted with the participants of the event in our blog. Efficient thoughts, principles / beliefs and even plans for the weekend were drawn from our delegates through interviews: Ernie Miller , Eric Hodl , Jeremy Evans , Linda Liukas , as well as Peter Zotov and Dmitry Vorotilin have already talked with us. Next in line are revelations from Fred Chang, Dressipi technical director and winner of the 2012 Ruby Hero Award
Interviews are published with original answers in English and our free translation.
')
When and why did you start programming?
My first programming memory: a father shows me simple C programs on the flickering orange VAX terminal at work — perhaps I just wanted to be like him! We wrote several Hypercard stacks together, and finally, on my 12th or 13th birthday, I received a copy of Discover Programming (a compressed version of Metrowerks’s now-missing Codewarrior IDE) and a book on C. Now the idea is to pay for development tools It seems absurd, but at that time there were not so many free tools for Mac.
I’m showing you what I’ve been listening to. It was a copy of the Programming Programming (it was a copydown version of the Metrowerks ’now defunct Codewarrior IDE). at the time there weren't many free tools for the Mac.
What are you working on right now?
Most of the time it takes work at Dressipi. Together with my team, I develop an online virtual services stylist services, which is partly based on expert advice, partly - on the engine with recommendations. I recently spent my free time with several RubyMotion projects.
Work at Dressipi has been taken up most of my time. I’m a team of experts who are on the Internet. Recently I've been a few projects in my spare time.
What is the best and worst part of your job?
I have to solve a wide range of problems, and I am absolutely free to choose a solution. I love working in small companies where I can feel how my work can actually change the direction of development and the future of the company. It is difficult to give someone the right to solve a really interesting task! It is still not easy to balance work and life outside it, but the worst is the road to work, which takes 2 hours each way. In addition, I don’t have as much time as I would like to keep up with technological innovations.
I get to tackle a lot of freedom. I love you. To solve! It is nearly 2 hours each way. I also like it.
What do you consider your main achievement in life / career at the moment?
I had a great time in previous work at Texperts. We started as a small British company, and then we were acquired by an American company, and our advertising was played during the Super Bowl. Receiving the Ruby Hero award in 2012 was an unexpected but pleasant surprise. Up to 20 years, I spent a lot of time writing Speed ​​Download - shareware tool for Mac. In general, this is not so much, but I think we managed to sell somewhere around 100 thousand, and this is without external financing. Although it distorts me when I review part of the code! The first 4 years I did not even use a controller version.
We had an amazing time at Texperts (my previous job). It was during the Superbowl. Winning a Ruby Hero award in 2012 was an unexpected but welcome surprise. In my late teens I spent a lot of time, I wrote a shareware tool for the Mac. Although it is small overall, copies with no outside funding. I cringe when i look back at some of the code though! For the first 4 years I didn’t even use version control.
What is the purpose of your career and professional development?
Early retirement and go to a tropical paradise with high-speed Internet.
Paradise with hi-speed internet.
What helps a programmer to grow professionally?
Never allow the coding process to become a routine work. You need to continue to write code for fun, whether it is an open-source project or you are just busy at home with some kind of fixed idea.
Never let it only become a day job. If you have been a contributor to it.
What book would you recommend to read to any programmer?
I have never really developed a relationship with books on programming, I bought them in such a quantity that many simply did not finish reading. Although I liked the book “Understanding Computation” by Tom Stewart: it is always great to return to the postulates that we take for granted and consider the underlying concepts.
I bought it. It was still a matter of understanding.
What do you like to do when you don't write code?
Programming does not leave me a lot of free time, but I love to read, play video games and table tennis.
But I’m not reading much.
Thanks for the interview and see you in Moscow!
The conference
We invite everyone to the RailsClub'Moscow 2013 conference. Traditionally, we will feed, give presents, hold contests and lotteries, play good music :) There will be a lot of interesting and informative.
Registration and payment of participation in the conference . Hurry up! Tickets for 8 000 rubles are already running out, have time to buy.
Our sponsors
The general sponsor
Undev.ru is a strong development team for Ruby, Objective C, C ++, C #, JavaScript. They are working on the creation of a unique technological platform for television broadcasting via the Internet. On the basis of this platform were made such major projects as Web elections 2012, SPIEF, broadcast Vancouver and London Olympiads, and several more projects of a similar scale.
Gold Sponsors
Aviasales.ru is Russia's first and largest Internet search engine for cheap air tickets. This is a project with monthly attendance of more than 2.5 million users and additional functions for finding hotels, insurance and car rental services. The company employs approximately 60 people. The headquarters and 80% of the employees are located on the beautiful sunny island of Phuket in the Kingdom of Thailand. The technology stack includes RoR / Redis / RabbitMQ / MySQL.
SocialQuantum is one of the leading developers and publishers of gaming applications for social networks and mobile platforms in Europe. The company's games are available on iOS and Android platforms, as well as on Russian social networks and on Facebook.
The applications of the company “Social Quantum” consistently occupy the first places in the ratings of mobile games, as well as leading positions in Russian social networks.
Silver Sponsors
GitHub is the most effective way to do software together, and this application is not important for your company, an open source library or just a project for a couple of days. GitHub provides tools for collaborative development on any device, making it easier. Start today - hosting open-source projects for free!
Lookatme is a modern online magazine for young people, with an audience of over 1.7 million monthly users. The project was developed on Ruby on Rails, therefore, traditionally, Lookatme helps our conference. In LAM'e work very creative and interesting people. Not a big, but very solid and friendly team.
Wheely - the international service of personal drivers. Mercedes unbranded cars, convenient ordering and payment through a mobile application, quality service. Wheely mobile service application is available on three platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and also full-featured as a web service from any browser. The company employs 29 people, the development office is located in Moscow, the main technologies: Ruby, Node.js and Go.
The organizers
Stay up to date with our news by subscribing to the newsletter on the website railsclub.ru , and stay tuned for updates:
railsclub.ru
http://twitter.com/#!/railsclub_ru
www.facebook.com/railsclub
By the way, we are actively looking for sponsors. Offer to sponsors
Developing your Ruby project? Ruby brings you money? Does ruby ​​make you happy? Make a contribution to the development of Ruby in Russia! Become a sponsor of the largest Russian Ruby on Rails conference! Help us make RailsClub better!
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