Nowadays it really difficult to find free niche or idea on first sight. But guys from San Francisco did it. In March 2006 they did prototype of Twitter and launched it publicly in August of 2006.

It was really nice and simple idea. Twitter asks one question, “What’s happening?” Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile texting, instant message, or the web.

But if you are developer most of time on your job happening code producing. And some times you need to share it with your teammates and debug together.

Sharing code around on the Internet can be a pain sometimes. Social networking sites have limits on post size, not all forums support the same language tags, making code accessible to everyone can be a problem.
Sometimes a nice, neat and tidy URL for your code can do wonders. This is known and solved issue in web by pastebins.

Here is example:

Of course there are some special pastebins for Twitter. There are some pastebins which exist specifically to surpass character limitations of microblogging services like Twitter. The idea is to save a large piece of text in a pastebin and post the URL and text excerpt to microblogging services which have character limitations.

Most known is txtb.in

Past.

Press button and Tweet.

There are a lot of common edges in social networking, bookmarking and pastebins. And Twitter is a result of combining of them.

Who are you?

I’m Yury Krutilin. I live in Tula, nice place and peaceful place in Russia, where situated a lot of IT companies with sales in USA and cheap coders here. It is nice Russian tradition to produce totaled and cheap coders. I live with my wife, daughter, and a whole lot of computers and gadgets around.

I was involved to IT when first 386 and 486 pc platforms just appeared here in Russia. And of course it was games! Did you remember your first Doom or Black Throne? Amazing! – this can describe feelings from gaming tease first old games. I had no any pc at that time and played DOS games on my mother’s pc on her job. But I always was able found ways to crash the game, somewhere on sub consciousness level. Then I had my first PC it was PII, and it is still functional as small and silent torrent downloader. O this PC was wrote my own racing game, it was wrote on Pascal code and successfully passed as laboratory task in University where I was studied. It was Tula State University, with nice teachers and bewitching students life. Then I got first official job in company which create tools for testing other tools, and I started to test tools developed for testing other tools. There I became quite comfortable in C# and some script languages. Uh, I tested them like a maniac and really liked that job!

Then I going in freelance and started realize backlog of my ideas. Now consider myself a reasonably experienced Windows software tester with a particular interest in the creating, promotion and testing of software projects. Main idea is to embody any idea in valid project, and then test how it will work. I have small team of IT maniacs. If you created project, make all promotion issues and people started using your project, your idea – it’s really great. In fact when you serf via web, and using any services f.e. google, you became involuntary tester too, but it is great! Sometimes you even can realize how it works and imagine peoples who made it.

Any project is great machine of business processes, but they’re mostly a reflection of the people created them. In the art of projest testing, business processes testing or software testing – you have to study the people behind the project, too.

Why do you blog?

Mostly for selfish reasons. I needed a way to keep track of ideas over time – whatever I am thinking about or working on. I’ll try to investigate things I find interesting, then document my research with a public blog post, which I can easily find and refer to later. I firmly believe that blogs are a two way conversation, so I welcome email and comments. I tried to bloging in Russian language, but stopped this idea.

How can I contact you?

Here is my email yury@krutilin.com

If you found any mistake don’t hesitate, please correct me via comment or by e-mail, my native language is Russian and i want to improve my English too.

Where is your photo?

I don’t have any pleasure to release my photos here on blog. I really believe in voodoo and other dancing with tambourine, so photo is not good idea. If you really need it mail me with reason.

Why blog named “Life Offline”?

Because we spend a lot of time online now, and it is not good. Try to find interesting things and ideas offline. Do it!