Social, Professional and Ethical Aspects of IT

   Today I will write about 2 assistant tools for the people who have problems with vision ability. For the experiments I will write this blog using voice input and then looking for mistakes by using a screen reader. I  will not use my eyes for this blog, so be prepared, there will be a lot of mistakes. I will start with a voice input system.My main problem that English is not  my native language.  so when I start speaking English with my computer,  eat  Often don't understand what I'm talking about. But it's not so bad.   I successfully use it to navigate on my computer. But it was not so comfortable that I use eat that without needed. but I believe if u used to it a little bit more and get a lot more additional settings, like a special dictionary and so so maybe it can be use more easily then now. but I still prefer to use it in a standard way.  After first start speaking about screen reader. the first problem is I'm not Used to eat. It's very digilet. It's re

  Straight to business. Positive example or Rimi.ee Nowadays, when going to the real shop is dangerous, a lot of people use e-store. To buy food and everyday goods my family uses rimi.ee and in our opinion, it is very comfortable to use. It is easy to learn, easy to use and hard to make mistakes, but easy to fix them. And after not using it for around 6 month, I very fast remember how to make orders.  I can tell you about many useful features, which make this service more comfortable and useful...but nobody pays me for advertising. And this blog is ad free (currently). I just summaries, that by Jakob Nielsen's terminology of usability, rimi.ee is a positive example of usability. Unlike… Negative example or mobo.osport.ee Short explanation. In Estonia ( and some other countries) are special orienteering trails where there are special signs in control points with QR code, which you scan with the MOBO app. In other words you can participate in orienteering by yourself, without an orga

  Development and business models This time, I need to write about one development model and about one business model and use some projects for example. I have two rules for situations, when I cannot decide what I should write about. Kanban/Waterfall and Statistics Department Rule nr 1 - Ask mom. Actually this rule works in a lot of situations. So happened that my mom is a developer in the Statistics Department. I ask which development model they use. Her team commonly uses Kanban in combination with Waterfall. As a base for Kanban they use Waterfall steps - Requirement-> Design-> Development-> Testing -> Maintenance. For every step they have a special table, sort of Kanban board, which helps visualize and organize the work. Before doing something and after something is done, they have discussion and feedback. Not only within one team but also with uppers, who give the task. In the team they have freedom to give ideas and offer the changes. They always can see what others

  Today, I read “How To Become A Hacker” by Eric S. Raymond. I always thought that hackers are people who are breaking into computers, stealing passwords and doing other funny things. But now I know that hackers are more network-anarchists who support free-software , obey Netiquette rule nr 6  and do other funny things. About those who I called “hackers” are actually named “crackers”. In the article Eric S. Raymond describes Hackers as sort of sub-culture and community and tells how to become part of it. Not only tells basic skills (like programming and unix operating) but also gives recommendations about personality development. I don't sure that “Train in a martial-arts form.'' and ”Study an actual meditation discipline.” help become a hacker but definitely got things to study. As I know, nowadays they do not call themselves “hackers” anymore but they still exist. And if you want to become part of them you need basicli support free-software in different ways,publish usefu