Last week we started feeling as if something is amiss on our web site. “Hey,” – we thought, ”mayhap our consciousness is wide awake ‘cause all we only care at our corporate site is only providing services to our clients”. Making profits and offering services is all very well, but it’s just old cold business logic. You provide us projects, so we make money and gain invaluable experience but what did we offer you in return besides our professional services? So starting last Friday you can save money on your project budgets and even hirerussians.com regular visitors can make PayPal money. Are you interested?! Detailed information about the deal is at our web site.... read more →
A famous American tradition to predict the weather according to groundhog Phil’s behavior on February 2 is know in Russia and some people even celebrate this unusual holiday. Anyway, predicting weather is a real challenge, especially these days when the winter is quite abnormal almost everywhere around the globe. For example here, in Novosibirsk, we had a temperature record for January (January 30, t +0.8C). What is the spring preparing?... read more →
We have migrated to a new version, Sharepoint Portal Services 3. As a result: Our Portal has a new address with a https certificate... read more →
So, you’ve got a corporate blog and from now on the entire world will know that your company is real! To be real, or to pretend real – your readers will decide this. And they will do it based on just two things, very simple things: style and content. You can’t fool your reader, and if you sound not frank and write wrong things – you’re just pretending to be real... read more →
By Alex Polezhaev Have you already checked it out? Pointing over any link in any post or comment brings up a small window with that page preview. Quite cool though pretty useless as you can’t read any text in that small box. But… who said you really read the Net? Try it here... read more →
Yahaa! We’ve put RSS feeds to Sibers.com. Now you can stay tuned with our news using your favorite feed reader. So, what’s out there in the world of RSS alligators aggregators? I had a problem of choosing the one for myself because I got sick refreshing same sites looking for changes. What I found out is, basically, that there are two confronting armies of them: Online tools and
Offline applications... read more →
Taking advantage of the new LinkedIn feature – LinkedIn Answers – we published a small poll there, asking about preferences in software outsourcing. We consider the best answer is by Shimon Keren, as it reflects our views: I have used fixed price for projects in two scenarios. The first was small scale projects where the likelihood of frequent requirements changes was low... read more →
Another aspect of our life on holidays is an opportunity to visit different concerts, exhibitions and shows. Our long-term clients might remember our site with pictures and phrases from a book about Van Gogh. Another painter inspiring our creative abilities is a well known showman of the 20th century, who adored provoking people with his eccentricity. Of course, it’s Salvador Dali, whose exhibition is now on display at the Novosibirsk State Art Museum... read more →
Many of our customers and partners from western world may be very curious about our long holidays and come with the question ‘What do Russian Programmers do on New Year holidays?’ That’s right, we do celebrate much more about New Year and less about Christmas. We had 10 days off and usually I (and our other people) spend this on:... read more →
On 28 December I had a very-very long day. In fact, it started on 27 when at night we had a sound record session for our NY party’s corporate movie. In fact, it was a popular Russian cartoon called ‘Winter in Prostokvashino’, and making the movie implied cutting off some parts and adding our voices and songs. We finished about 1am at night, but it was fun trying to get into rhythm of actors of the cartoon. So next day I started early by interviewing everyone in our company (or tried to get everyone) about last year results. I had prepared a questionnaire and wrote down every answer which was really important... read more →