I run DrawingBots.net, PlotterFiles.com and have been very active in the plotter community in the recent years. Time to time, I get to try another plotter and evaluate it. In this blog post, I will review Sovol SO2 Plotter provided to me by the manufacturer. I will focus on the plotting function in this blog […]
Nvidia Jetson Nano Developer Kit is a small (80×100) yet powerful computer that was launched in March 2019 by Nvidia and is growing in popularity. I was able to get one in April 2019 and immediately put it to work. One question that I get from people is : what can you do with this […]
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that matches students up with open source, free software and technology-related organizations to write code and get paid to do it. For GSoC 2018 I was honored to work with Processing Foundation on an open source project. Google Summer of Code 2018 ran from May 14 […]
Today is the first day of 2018. I wanted to sit down and write about what happened to me in 2017 and what is on the horizon for me in 2018. Here’s a short version of what life brought me in 2017: Got accepted to MSTI(Master’s of Science in Technology Innovation) at GIX(Global Innovation Exchange) […]
I have officially notified my manager about me leaving NBC Universal in a month. One morning in December of last year I saw an ad on Facebook about a new graduate program opening at University at Washington that immediately drew my attention. In the evening of the same day I escaped company Christmas party to […]
In this post I will share my impressions of Monoprice Maker Select V2 3D printer, otherwise known as Wanhao Duplicator i3. I got one in June of 2016 and have been using it for more than 10 months, printing hundreds upon hundreds of various 3D models. This printer costs around $300 on Amazon (also available on Monoprice […]
The following content is the first chapter of my new e-book titled “Laravel: my first framework“. This writing is copyright by Maksim Surguy. Unauthorized copy and distribution of this material is prohibited. Chapter 1. Meeting Laravel This chapter covers: An introduction to Laravel 4 PHP framework History of Laravel framework Advantages of using Laravel Developing a […]
As you might know, for the past year and a few months I have been working on another book for web developers, called “Laravel in Action”. That book was scheduled to be launched in print by this upcoming fall. Due to the current trends in the market of PHP books and lower-than-expected pre-launch sales of the […]
In this blog post I will summarize my experience attending Laracon US 2014, the annual conference held for Laravel and PHP web developers in United States. I will share my expectations, most memorable moments, lots of photos and links from the conference. Expectations Laracon was my first web development conference. While I never attended a […]
I love geometric art. Within the last month a few things around the web inspired me to create something of my own that creates art based on geometrical shapes. The result of a few days of work is an interactive tool that allows anyone to create beautiful geometric patterns like this: You can view the […]
Today my friend Stidges and I are making a small contribution to open source community. We are releasing the source code of a website that the two of us created together called Laravel Tricks. The purpose of the website is to give the Laravel community ability to create small code snippets that could be helpful […]
This tutorial is one more addition to my “Building a shop with Laravel” tutorial series. In the previous tutorial, I showed you how to implement very nice “Smart search” feature using Selectize.js plugin to make user experience a bit nicer: https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/laravel-shop-tutorial-3-implementing-smart-search/ When I develop web applications, I care a lot about the user experience and […]