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Elance has notified us of their major upgrade. On the evening of May 16th they will be taking the Elance servers down to upgrade to the latest release. The downtime will be slightly longer than usual due to the extent of the upgrade. We expect the site to be unavailable between 6:30pm PDT and 12:30PM PDT. We are sorry for this inconvenience.... read more →

Last week we celebrated The Spring Coming. It’s a traditional corporate holiday that is held every year when Spring comes and the weather allows. It takes place outside, near our office. Although this time it was a little bit late, but better late than never.... read more →

By Valery Makarenko, PHP Team Leader At a seminar devoted to the problems of using PHP and Flash, Vadim Korneev accompanied by Alexander Nemtsov spoke about creating web applications based on PHP and Flash technologies. He focused on the AMF protocol, which allows the client part of the application (Flash) exchange data with the server (PHP). The protocol in question differs from its XML analogues (SOAP and XML RPC) in the possibility to code data into the binary form, which minimizes the room occupied. Besides, the protocol is supported by internal Flash means and there is a number of appropriate applications for PHP letting the developer concentrate on the application logics leaving apart the problem of interaction between the client and server parts.... read more →

Besides low prices for offshore development, advantages of Russian outsourcing software development companies over Indian developers are high quality specialists and cultural proximity to the West. This conclusion was drawn by analysts of IDC, global market research company, after they have conducted research based on the foreign clients’ opinions... read more →

Last week, we had a guest in our office. That was one of our favorite clients, Charles, that has several his projects developed by us. We asked Charles to describe his impressions of his second visit to Siberia. Here they are... read more →

On the April 5th Technorati.com released statistic report about blogoshpere. Here are some interesting global facts: 1.5 million postings per day 17 posts per second 2% of blogs belongs to Russians (5th place among others languages) HireRussians blog statistics: 0.09 postings per day 0.6 postings per week 2.9 postings per month 34.3 postings per year 8.3 postings per Mercurian year 21.3 postings per Venusian year 65 postings per Marsian year For calculating thanks to re-date.com resource.... read more →

Today we are a top 2nd provider at Elance out of 78473 other teams.... read more →

The idea of the HireRussians brand appeared back in 2005 in the minds of then Key-Soft marketing managers. It was a great and unique name speaking for itself – hire Russians! Initially, the HireRussians site borrowed the main ideas from the content of the Key-Soft site but looked different... read more →