Ivan Kurmanov
I design and code software, make web applications and simple websites, write documentation, translate English-Russian and consult on web technology matters. I live in Minsk, Belarus. There’s more about me.
Writings in English:
- The tools I use
- Unicode-processing issues in Perl and how to cope with it (last revision: 2007-05-01)
- How to remove diacritic marks from characters (last revision: 2005-02-13)
- Unicode support in Interchange, an incomplete patch.
- IE DHTML image caching bug: workaround
Open-source projects participation:
- Qvwm lightweight and fast window manager for X Window system
- Proper XPath/XSLT error reporting in XML::LibXSLT. The patch
Other people’s work:
My del.icio.us bookmarks, my Flickr.
My heros
Scott Adams, Alexander Kjerulf, Paul Graham, Jeffrey Zeldman, Mark Pilgrim, D. J. Bernstein, Joel Spolsky, Creating Passionate Users.
Wise George Soros and amazing Richard P. Feynmann.
Storytellers Paul Ford and Michael Barrish.
More good people: Philip Greenspun, Aaron Swartz.
BuildSite — U.S. construction industry database of companies, products and documents.