It has been a while since I posted a technical article so my mailbox is jammed with e-mails from people begging me to spread more wisdom. This particular post deals with one of the most pressing and hard unsolved problems in computer science – Is it better to store user uploaded files in the database or on the file system? This question has spawned thousand of IRC, forum and other flames. I too have participated in my share of flames on the topic. So it is time for you, the reader, to learn what is the right way to store user uploaded files and it is...

   Our fearless team has just released a new version of the Personal Webpage Engine that powers this No-blog. This version includes several small bugfixes. This will be the last version before version 2.0 comes with many majestic features. Well... unless everything suddenly breaks and we are forced to release another bugfix version.

   As always the code is available at Codeplex. If you want to experience the glory of being part of the team you can contribute there.

   Because there were no more than 500 people attending Dev Reach 2009 I know that the other 6 billion in the world are awaiting my report and here it is...

   Right now I do not have the time to write new articles and I know that there is a throng of readers out there who eagerly await my majestic writings so I decided to be gracious and draw your attention to an old series of articles, namely 'The History of Real Time Strategy Games'. This was written about two years ago and was a project by a guy known by the nickname Phantom for the Gamereplays.org website. Many people took part in it everyone writing articles about different games. Yours truly is responsible for the articles about WarCraft II and WarCraft III. I am really proud with my participation in this project. I am filled with pride by the very notion that I was and still am a part of the 'growing tech-savvy group calling themselves 'gamers'' that changed the world of entertainment and art in the 90s. Some people still try to downplay the importance of computer and video games, electronic sports and the cultural impact they bring but this group is slowly dying of old age. We are taking over the world and now all your culture is belong to us. If you are interested in the history of one of the most important genres of computer games you can download the PDF version here or read the original articles on the Gamereplays.org website starting here.

   Happy programmers' day to all programmers, IDE operators and PHP writers. We know that we and not those fancy business guys do the work that makes the world tick. Sometimes we are scared to death by this thought because we have seen it from the inside and we know how fragile our systems are but I am sure that if the giants could see us they would be proud.

   The day of the programmer is getting momentum and this year it has been accepted as an official professional holiday in Russia. Soon in your country!