Alex talks.

Olexiy (Alexey) Prokhorenko likes to live in different places and blog about different things. Ruby, JRuby, Java, Javascript, Scala, Rails, Spring, Hibernate... just to name a few. And different aspects of product management and agile software development. On the other note, he also loves speed in form of flashy cars and sportbikes, so those topics may find their place here, too.

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Fire!!!

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Did I ever mention before...

That my wife is a fireman? Well, she isn't but the hat fits fine! (we tried at Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose - a lot of fun for the whole family)

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Nice spot at Union Square for my son

i don't know why he is not smiling on this photo but doing some "thinker" face, but yesterday he had a lot of fun with his L.A.'s girlfriend running for pigeons ;-)

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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Testing new iPhone 3G s

The quality of camera is really great. Overall there are so many features which no other phone can beat. Phone is much more responsive, faster and... Just like the feeling of it!

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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Ghirardelli square

I've been riding cable car from Powell to Hyde couple times today, spending time with my family. Spent awesomely great time, but every single minute I've been thinking to myself how ugly STUPID was I to forget that now is *summer in san francisco* what means IT IS pretty cool outside and especially closer to the water... Cognac to the cure tonight, that's for sure!

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Saturday, June 06, 2009

Exploring Bay Area

The more I spend time exploring Bay Area the less I am satisfied with what I see. So far, I only found that it's nice ib downtown San Jose and Santana Row... Nice places, really. San Francisco up north is an amazing place to spend time in, especially my favourites which are SOMA and Golden Gate park. And... That's it! Terrible! And I thought L.A. was bad!!! Spent some time today in downtown Mountain View and later in downtown Redwood City... even if Redwood City tend to be called "deadwood city" it's way better than Mountain View. I can compare it to San Mateo downtown - and to describe is "barely okay". At 2-3pm on the weekend there is almost nothing there, few elder people and that's it. Just to compare with Pasadena or Glendale down south in L.A.... it feels just crazy an awkward! Where are all young people??? (don't really need an answer as I know it ;-(
And I am not even trying to compare that to Santa Monica, or Beverly Hills or Wilshire/West L.A...
I am dissapointed. I think that in Bay Area people know that they already have two big metro's (SF and SJ) so not manu cities are trying to develop... In L.A. pretty much everbody "agreed" that it's a suburb, that's why even smaller city is building nice stuff ib the downtown for the communities...

At least we still have San Francisco up here.

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Thursday, June 04, 2009

Up 3D

Ready for Up movie in 3D! And it was a really nice experience

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Had some very great time with my wife at SFMOMA

SFMOMA rooftop is great, weather is great (but cool, though it's okay for San Francisco in summer). Nice views! ;-) and yeah, iPhone should be able to do better job with photos...

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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Nice day (but cool) at Pier 39

I've been here couple times but always weather is pretty cold. It is always nice when I am around but NOT at Pier 39, but as I am getting there, it changes...

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Ditching for Posterous?

Actually, I came to the point to really evaluate Posterous and probably ditch this blog on Blogger. Very close to it now. So check me at http://westla7.posterous.com/ :-)