Just when you think you’ve sorted things out it appears the whole world gone mad :-) Ukraine has got its next Maindan (that’s how we call a nation-wide protest here) and the time is even more scarce than it was. Here are few links to sum up and give you the taste:

• Goodbye, Putin
• The birth of the nation?
• Putin’s expensive victory
• Scenes from Maindan
• Ukraine: tale of two nations for country locked in struggle over whether to face east or west
• Ukraine protesters return en masse to central Kiev for pro-EU campaign
• Vladimir Putin offers Ukraine financial incentives to stick with Russia

Some other, more conventional news:

Technology

• 22 recommendations for building effective high-traffic web-sites. Concentrated knowledge and experience, very nice
• 10 things you should know about AWS – time saving tips
• Battle-ready Nginx – a brief overview with explanations of some settings that can be tuned in order to improve Nginx performance.
• Reflections on turning requirements into promises and scaling agile projects using promises
• 4k bit RSA keys being cracked by acoustic cryptanalysis, totally mad and scary world!
• yum now keeps the history of its transactions, available with yum history
• Link from the past: Evolution of the web
• Mike Svoboda’s presentation on how CFEngine is used in LinkedIn: slides and youtube

English

• Bending over backwards to hit the nail on the head – Have you got a bee in your bonnet about idioms? Do you bend over backwards to find opportunities to use them? If so, be careful not to go overboard; otherwise you might be at risk of putting your foot in it.
• Vice Versa and Vis-à-Vis – get it right

Other

• NYTimes article on Lviv’s history in architecture.
• Triumph of ignorami lasted 7 days: Ukrainian ski resort outlawed mobile phones based on citizens fantasies. Reminds me how bus and tram drivers were complaining they are receiving a radiation from newly installed GPS receivers (which do not emit any radiation by definition)