My name is Aleksey Maksimov. I am Software Architect with many years of IT experience and architecture experience. I work for a global IT consulting company and live in the United Kingdom.
This is my software rants blog. I also have blog about my life happenings, in Russian. I also registered in almost all social networks, usually as ctpeko3a, sometimes as lechat and rarely as drunkenfly. Here is my FriendFeed and 
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I tried to search all over the web for a Java Faces component, which will do a simple thing: totals and subtotals. And I failed. It seems that whole web is about how much more AJAX you could put everywhere, not how more useful your product could be for average user.
It could be done through a facet tag, which is obvious.
I think about that as competitive advantage for myself. If nobody done it – I should do it and be recognised for it!
Microsoft has opened a viral marketing site about something called Origami. It was discovered by Design Tastes Good, they sent an email to Scoble with questions and Scoble responded in his snobby manner “I know everything, but I can’t say it to you”. And not the hell broke loose.
Engadged posted the pictures of the future gadget, but denying the validity. Todd Bishop remembered the Bill Gates’ WinHEC speech about new device, and Transmeta’s announcement about some agreement with Microsoft.
I hope that Microsoft will create something really useful and with neat design. What I need in such device is:
Ramit Sethi writes about capturing and keeping a records of every calls to customer services and provides an Excel file to do that.
This is wonderful idea. I do some of the call notes in my Moleskine, but never though of having Excel of Word file for this purpose.
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