Record of the internal "under the beer" seminar in Reaxion-Minsk. Part 1. Mercurial. Distributed systems.

Guest Star: Victor Kuzmin
Our former employee. Creator of Reaxion's Java-> Brew / iPhone / Flash / Symbian / Android Brava Technology
Now co-owner and CTO Mobikom (M-Banking for Belarusbank, and a number of other banks of the Republic of Belarus)



Topic 1 theme: Mercurial. Distributed systems.
Warning: caution mats. narcissism. impressionable not to listen.
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Seminar Record on imeem.com

- Prologue and Offtopic. Bike about a girl kidnapper flash drives (0:00 - 2:15)
- Mercurial vs SVN. Long-term commits to SVN-e. Not intuitive brunches in SVN-e. (2:15)
- Mercurial vs SVN. Teamwork on brunches (4:30)
- Mercurial vs SVN. Switch branches (7:15)
- Mercurial vs SVN. Distributed systems. Rebase (9:00)
- Mercurial vs SVN. Conflicts. Loss of local changes. Explicit merge (12:00)
- Mercurial vs SVN. Central repository (17:30)
- Mercurial. The work of artists with the system. Tool (18:30)
- Mercurial. Switch to Mercurial. How Reaxion switched to SVN (19:00)
- Mercurial. Criticism? When CVS is the best version control system (20:00)
- Mercurial. The difficulty of understanding a simple system for 95% of programmers (21:00)
- Mercurial. Flexible workflow setup (22:00)
- Mercurial. Hosting (22:30)
- Mercurial. Server synchronization (24:00)
- Mercurial. Mercurial or Git (25:30)
- Mercurial. Why we do not need Perforce (27:00)
- Mercurial. Change the workflow. Working with team lead (29:00)
- Mercurial. Work on the experiments. Queues. Patches. Changes to change (30:00)
- Mercurial. Work with external open-source libraries (34:00)


In the second part you will hear:

- Ruby / Python (some)
- Why Linux is better for programmers
- Review Code
- Redmine vs Online excel plates in google
- How to use the Wiki
- DirectX and Office
- XBox / PS3 / DS
- GBA
- World Financial Crisis (1:23)
- Dr. House
- Vizor int. Run UNIT Online
- The IT Crisis (1:28)
- Online gaming market
- How Vitya's mom bred (1:31)
- How to take people to work (1:35)
- Business (1:37)
- Board games in BC
- Network lags in flash at Unit online (1:39)
- Programming problems in flash (1:40)
- How BSU-FPMI won the ACM (1:42)
- The value of the Olympiad for the programmer (1:44)
- Garbage Collector Brava on iPhone (1:46)
- Kuzmin work in reaxion (1:48)
- How we lure people to Minsk (1:50)
- When we do not reaxion (1:52)
- Olympics and real life (1:54)
- Phone bugs (1: 57.5)
- Religion (1: 58.5)
- How are olympiads being pounded (2:00)
- Gene in Topcoder (2:02)
- Result and elapsed time (2: 02.5)
- Again about the Garbage Collector in BRAVA (2:06)
- GCC / ADS in BRAVA (2:10)
- Transition to GCC (2:13)
- Writing BRAVA (2:15)
- Lying rallies (2:17)
- We continue about brava (2:18)