Archive for the ‘cool’ Category

When Manners Run Out – Story of a Website Theft

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

A guest post from our intern Tony. He has traveled all the way from North-America just to learn the ropes of programming and IT culture from us. He’s last week’s priority 2 task was to handle our site being stolen problem.

A few months ago we discovered that our website (http://www.zeroturnaround.com) had been stolen by jbrute.info [...]



A job offer and a kinda cool puzzle

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

ZeroTurnaround is looking for an infrastructure engineer in Tartu (http://bit.ly/zt-infra-eng). If you want to apply or just have a little fun, solve this puzzle:
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Please don’t post the answer in the comments, but you’re welcome to tell what game is the quote from and how long did it take you to solve it.



Story of a startup: How to Convert a Pair of Glasses into Fame and Fortune?

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Another guest post from our PHB. Obviously he has been reading too much Techcrunch, just discovered icanhascheezburger.com and slacking off during his day job.
This is a story of a start-up built around the nerdiest glasses on earth. If you wonder why and how we’re doing it, how exactly will we make millions of dollars off [...]



Hacking with IDE plugins – fun art of binary patching

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Today’s software is so much about integration. You can have a cool Java utility but if you don’t have an Eclipse plugin for that, a large % of Eclipse users won’t adopt (IDEA & NetBeans users require plugins just as much). In the consumer market the same goes for browser extensions and iPhone apps [...]



Configuring Eclipse – “fail fast”

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Another guest post from our favorite PHB. I don’t have the slightest idea why he has Eclipse installed or better yet, why is he trying to run it. Probably overheard something from devs at the water-cooler and wants some free time from PowerPoint.
My Eclipse instance starts with a warning popup. Well, most likely it picked [...]