I learned a lot about Blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the last half of the year, and wanted to share my knowledge with others. I had a good chance to do this on Kiev's Blockchain School, which was hosted in our Student's Space Belka. So I organized a micro-lecture along other lectures to share the Blockchain technology basics with 100+ students in the school! This helped them to understand basic concepts and knowledge required to continue practicing, as the school itself requires pretty good understanding of Blockchain technology. It went well!

As an active open source contributor I couldn't miss this event. Hacktoberfest is a "month-long celebration of open source software", organized by Digital Ocean in partnership with GitHub.

The idea of this celebration is simple — you need to create 4 pull requests to any GitHub's open source repositories to win a limited edition T-Shirt and a couple of stickers. They do delivery worldwide, and the prizes were delivered to Ukraine!

See my October's contributions on GitHub.

It was a great event organized by Yggdrasil in Kiev! We were solving different coding problems using JavaScript in tight time borders. It was a big fun!

I quickly made the first problem in the first round, but unfortunately in the second round my brain stuck on a very trivial things that I was able to come up with in a couple of seconds afterwards. But I also won a little prize — a bottle of champagne and a branded T-Shirt!

Thanks Yggdrasil for this awesome chance to test myself. My skill to stay concentrated on the task when there is a pressure is now upgraded!

This is the first time when InterSystems made a meetup in Ukraine. During this meetup I were presenting InterSystems iKnow technology and my own project, iKnow Entity Browser. InterSystems iKnow is a embeddable technology that enables developers to gain insight from unstructured data and use it to enrich their solutions. iKnow uses a "bottom up" approach to text exploration, discovering concepts and relations within the text itself.

My project, iKnow Entity Browser is a graphical user interface to text exploration, representing the text concepts in a graph structure. You can play with its demo here. It enables users to build rich diagrams, edit and explore concepts very quickly. The application developed by me is adaptive and should fit any device well.

The video of my presentation is available under the photos below (or check this links). There is also an article published by Computer Review describing our meetup.

Golden Byte 2017 is an international IT championship where I have been taking part in last year and won. This year I was invited to be in the jury committee in the NoSQL Expert nomination!

We were presented 7 great projects at the international final of the competition. All of them were worthy, but three of them were the best. The third place went to the Quasar, a man who created an activity logger for desktop computers. The second place went to TheLab team of three, which developed a medical systems for local clinics in Odessa and started to integrate their solutions there. And the first place was awarded to One Life team of two, which made a job search service for disabled people.

Looking forward to see more exciting projects next year in NoSQL Expert nomination!

More students are waiting for their programming experience! This time, InterSystems corporation with myself as a teacher organized a course in Europe in Brno, Czechia. I was teaching a basic course of InterSystems Caché technology, web technologies and basic programming practice.

Some of the students were not experienced in programming at all, and during the one-week course of intensive trainings with practical exercises they were doing a great job!

At the end of the course, we had a two-day hackathon. Students formed their teams and selected their project's topics they have been working with during all the hackathon. At the end, 5 teams had their presentations and they did surprisingly perfect job! Some of the most noticeable projects were Caché Redis, Translator and others. It was so outstanding to see that people that was not familiar in programming did such great results.

Here's some (anonymized) feedback received from my students:

Amity University in Noida, Delhi is the biggest private university of India. This winter was hot to me: I came there to spread the knowledge of InterSystems technologies! During one week, I was teaching InterSystems Caché DBMS for the teachers and professors of AIIT faculty of the Amity University.

This was my first trip to India, and it went exciting! Many thanks to professor assistant Shambhu Kumar Jha, Prof. Sunil Kumar Khatri and all the faculty members, who were taking care of me.

For me India looked like a very contrast country. Despite of the dirty and messy streets, smog and other untidy things there, Delhi has a lot of totally different things from the usual countries, and it is exactly worth visiting place. I wish I have chosen in advance to stay there for at least one more week!

The government company, MosVodoKanal, which provides a water for the whole Moscow required a web-development course, based on the InterSystems technologies. I was a teacher for the engineers and a manager of the company, and it was a three-day course during which I introduced not only the InterSystems stuff, but all the trends in web technologies as well. The feedback was exceptionally positive and I enjoyed this time in Moscow with a lot of stories and jokes we were telling each other.

It was an exciting trip to the Czech Republic, where I handled my first international course. I was teaching Czech students to use InterSystems technologies and, when we finished with the basic course we made a "bonus" web course and have written two more web applications — an online bulletin board with the authorization key retrieval from the super server, and a WebSockets chat.

It was fun and a tremendous experience both for me and the students.

The National Technical University of Ukraine has its own military department. I was studying there for 2 years, starting from 2014 and now I got a Junior Lieutenant rank. Glory to the heroes!

Thank to my pen friend Paul Mike Kadow, who offered me to place the information about me and my projects at InterSystems in his book, my chapter (the whole chapter 16 "Web Based Enhancements") was published in United States.

I was the only author of the chapter 16 in the book, and Mike was my editor. This chapter describes my biography in short, and four of my projects done for InterSystems: Caché Web Terminal, Light Pivot Table, Caché Class Explorer and GlobalsDB Admin. Thank you very much, Mike!

Once a year the faculty of linguistics of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute" organizes a conference dedicated to innovations in science and technology. This year it was a XVI All-Ukrainian Students R&D Conference "Innovations in Science and Technology".

My presentation at the conference was chosen by judges as the best presentation, and I was awarded with the certificate. This year the topic of my presentation was about the InterSystems Caché storing and visualizing options, and what can be done for improving the visualization of the data. That's how the Caché Visual Editor was born.

This social empirical project is organized by The University of Manchester, and the goal of this project was to make a research over the capability of ukrainians to work in small groups, created from the random people. Me and 3 more persons were closed in a dedicated room with the supervisor, and we were discussing the major problems and resolutions of Ukrainian universities.

State Enterprise "State Center of Information Resources of Ukraine" requested a course from InterSystems corporation. They wanted to introduce InterSystems' technologies to their workflow. For the first time, after my exiting experience of teaching students, I was offered to become a teacher for this State Enterprise.

The course was 5 days long. In addition to the employees of this enterprise, there were also two professors from the State University of Telecommunications. This was an important event for me, and it went perfectly!

Once a year the faculty of linguistics of the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute" organizes a conference dedicated to innovations in science and technology. This year it was a XV All-Ukrainian Students R&D Conference "Innovations in Science and Technology".

My presentation at the conference was chosen by judges as the best presentation, and I was awarded with the certificate. This year the topic of my presentation was about the information security and the best ways to keep the data safe in the modern computerized world.

As a sign of respect to my friend, I want to share this certificate given to me, which allows me to learn the Apocalyptica's "Path" song's melody in a form of individual musical lesson on a piano.

Once a year, InterSystems corporation organizes a big event named "InterSystems Innovations School", where people from all over the world share their experience and projects done for the past year.

This year I was talking about my Class Explorer project and the "new" way of developing web application on InterSystems products.

In 2009 I was classified as a 3 adult category swimmer in breaststroke swimming style. In fact, one year later I got a 2nd adult classification, but unfortunately I didn't get the paper which proves my certification.

I was swimming professionally for about 2 years in Kiev Underwater Sports Palace, where I got the certification. I did the distance of 50 meters in 39 seconds. My personal record was 37 seconds, which is the 2nd adult classification.

At the third class of my school I was an exemplary pupil, and for the year of my excellent study I got a merit.

At the second class of my school I was an exemplary pupil, and for the year of my excellent study I got a merit.