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This is me, couple of weeks ago.

Alexander Sandler — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:25:29 +0000

I think this is going to become my new icon. What do you think?

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I got a new job, take 2

Alexander Sandler — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:59:54 +0000

I got a new job, again Today I signed a contract with a company named Fabrix.TV. Fabrix is developing a new generation of video content delivery platform.

I am joining as a chief video content consumer senior software engineer.

I got a new job

Alexander Sandler — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:51:09 +0000

You probably noticed that I didn’t write anything new for awhile. Well, I was looking for a new job and didn’t have much time to write. Luckily, this is over. I am now a senior software engineer at Exanet LTD.

Exanet is developing storage solutions for large organisations. ExaStore, main product of the company, is a clustered NAS gateway solution providing highly available and distributed data storage.

New article – Bazaar for subversion users, part 1 – the basics

Alexander Sandler — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:10:06 +0000

This is a first out of several articles describing Bazaar, the distributed version control system. This series is intended for Subversion users, who may decide that they need a little more from their version control system.

Read the article here

Bazaar for subversion users, part 1 – the basics

New article – C/C++ reference counting with atomic variables and gcc

Alexander Sandler — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:51:01 +0000

This article explains how to implement performance critical reference counting in C/C++ program, using atomic variables and gcc. Enjoy it. Read the article here. Related posts: C/C++ reference counting with atomic variables and gcc Multithreaded simple data type access and atomic variables Hall of fame Related posts:

New article – Python’s optparse for human beings

Alexander Sandler — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:27:02 +0000

In this article I cover in depth Python’s optparse module. It presents most useful recipes and is a good handbook when parsing command line options in a Python program.

Read the article here.

New article – Signal Handling in Linux

Alexander Sandler — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:56:00 +0000

This article introduces signals in Linux to the reader. It explains the nature of signals, how to use them and gives few small use examples.

Read the article here.

New article – Backup and restore your Linux installation

Alexander Sandler — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:27:03 +0000

This article explains how to backup and restore your Linux installation. One thing special about method described in this article, is that it allows you to preserve disk space – you compress and decompress the data on the fly, so you need much less disk space to create the backup and store it.

To the article.

New artcile – Creating new applications on top of SSH

Alexander Sandler — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:12:31 +0000

I planned this as a short post, but it ended up quiet long so I post it as I do with the rest of big articles.

This article explains and demonstrates how to create a new application that communicates over SSH. To the article.

Creating new application on top of SSH

I got new email address

Alexander Sandler — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:39:48 +0000

Did I mention that I have new email address? It is alex@alexonlinux.com . Nice one isn’t it?