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<p><b>Anatoly Spektor</b> <i>(Latvian Spelling: <b>[http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Aspektors Anatolijs Spektors]</b>, Russian: <b>[http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/User:Aspektors Анатoлий Спектор]</b>)</i> is a Blogger, Web Developer and Software Engineer. Currently enrolled in [http://senecac.on.ca Seneca College] of Art and Technology [http://www.senecac.on.ca/fulltime/CPA.html CPAC] (<i>Computer Programming and Analysis Co-op</i>), where he also worked in a position of a Web Developer. Currently Anatoly is working as Software Engineer in Red Hat as part of Eclipse team. Anatoly is also involved in several start-up web projects, that are planned to be launched in 2012-. In April 2013wrote a book on Eclipse Application Testing.
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<br/>[http://ca.linkedin.com/in/anatolyspektor Anatoly's Online Resume on LinkedIn]
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=='''Currently...'''==
Working as Software Engineer in Red Hat as part of Eclipse team on migration of Eclipse SWT from GTK+ 2.x to GTK+ 3.x
=='''Previous College Activity'''==
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=='''Blogging'''==<br/> Anatoly is known in the Russian Internet Online community under many nicknames. His blogging bloggin, scripting and chatting career started in early 2000 with [[IRC]] nick Goldstar . In 2005 he opened his first blog in [http://www.livejournal.com LiveJournal] under nickname: [http://glamurny.livejournal.com Glamurny]. Word "Glamurny" is derived from the word "glamorous". Blog audience is fashion and high-tech addicts, who are seeking information on latest fashion trends and technological inventions. Blog has more than 300 subscribers and is visited by one thousand people monthly.
<br/>Last few years Anatoly has became a frequent twitter blogger. In 2 years he has tweeted more than 1400 tweets. His bilingual [http://twitter.com/anatolyspektor twitter account] (Russian and English) is public, so everyone can read his tweets without having to register in Twitter. <br />
<br/>Being a huge cooking fan Anatoly is frequently posting pictures of dishes, restaurant reviews and recipes.
<br/>Also being an Apple Inc product a big technology fan , Anatoly shares interesting information on different companies and their products in his twitter and livejournal blog.
<br/>In 2010 Anatoly opened his first professional blog: [http://myprogrammingblog.com Anatoly's Programing Blog] where he shares his programming experience. Blog is updated weekly<br/>
<br/>In 2011 Anatoly started category [http://myprogrammingblog.com/category/project-bbb Project Big Blue Button] in his [http://myprogrammingblog.com Programing Blog]
<br/>It increased blog traffic by 200%. In October 2011 blog was visited by 2000 people.
<br /> In 2 years blog has been visited by more than 100 000 people.<br/>In October 2011 Anatoly opens opened his public [http://ca.linkedin.com/in/anatolyspektor LinkedIn account]where he publicly shares his work experience and projects with friends, colleagues and potential employers.
=='''Work'''==
<br/>One of the first, and most successful projects of Anatoly was Latvian Torrent Tracker [http://fat.lv Fat.lv](closed). Together with the founder of Fat.lv Anatoly increased websites traffic from hundred to ten thousand daily visitors, and more than hundred thousand registered users, making [ http://fat.lv] second torrent tracker in Latvia by the amount of visitors and registered users.<br /><br/>In May 2009 Anatoly was involved as a Project Manager, Web Developer and Search Engine Optimizator SEO in a Confidential Project, that gave him great insight in project development and valuable experience d web development techniques.<br/>In January 2011 Anatoly, with his colleague from Seneca started start-up web project with code name Sparb . Project is temporarily stop due lack of time. <br/><br/>In September 2011 Anatoly started internship semester as a Web Developer in Seneca Center for Development of Open Technology, working on a collaborative project between Seneca and [http://www.bigbluebutton.org Big Blue Button] on creating powerful online class management system. After 4 month internship, Anatoly was hired by CDOT to continue his work on Big Blue Button. <br/><br/>In May 2012 Anatoly started his work as Software Engineer in Red Hat Canada working as part of Eclipse team on migration of Eclipse's Standard Widget Toolkit from Gtk+ 2.x to Gtk+ 3.x . This worked required knowledge of multiple graphic libraries (GTK+, glib, Cairo, X11), use of JNI (Convert Java code into C), multiple programming languages(C/Java/Bash/xml), knowledge of compilers and much more. <br/><br />In September 2012 Anatoly's work resulted in successfully building Eclipse on top of GTK+ 3 without any compilation problems(More than 300 compilation errors were resolved). He contributed more than 3 thousand lines to Eclipse platform's source code.<br />
<br />In April 2013 Anatoly co-operated with Packt Publishing and wrote a book on [http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Eclipse-Application-Testing-How-/dp/1782163247/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1369322603&sr=8-1&keywords=Anatoly+Spektor InstantEclipse Testing How-to] which is available in 120 countries.<br />
=='''Hobbies'''==
Blogging, gadgets, Muay Thai, tennis, guitar, cooking,programming,tennis, gym, philosophy, Russian literature, gadgets. <br /><br />
=='''Favorite Quotes'''==
<br/>Dream as you will live forever, live as you will die today! (James Dean)
<br/> To be Continued<br/>
==''' Schedule for Winter 2012'''==
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=='''Schedule for Winter 2013'''==
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