Last January, the popular cloud‑based backend provider Parse announced that 2016 will be its last operational year. Thousands of users were surprised by the news, and its unexpected closure has thrown more than a few development teams into panic. At the risk of sounding cruel, the HireRussians team is almost glad this happened.... read more →
By now you’ve probably heard about iBeacon and how it brings proximity and context marketing into the off‑line world. Introduced by Apple in 2013, iBeacon quickly became the next big thing in the tech world. Let’s dive in and break down how this mysterious, uber‑popular Bluetooth LE technology works and why it provides such huge opportunities — especially for marketing.... read more →
Over the last few years there’s been a huge fuss over vulnerabilities in web applications. However, even though almost every internet user knows about the Heartbleed vulnerability discovered in 2014, their knowledge of web security concepts is limited to things like, “I know my password should be long and complicated.” Greater concerns are left to the antivirus software professionals. To realistically see the possible outcomes and learn how to avoid them, we need to start from square one and understand what “web security” really means.... read more →
Elance blog has published an article with Anie Taskaeva, Head of Marketing and Public Relations at HireRussians about our experience in providing outsourcing services.... read more →
Fabulous comics, I think I will be sending this link to anyone on Elance dreaming to create a Yahoo clone... read more →
A new commercial for T-Mobile myTouch 3G features an Android application made by Sibers... read more →
Smashingmagazine.com, which is an endless source of information and inspiration for Web people, has just published a sophisticated article about what Web design in Russia looks like. Smashing Magazine has chosen Russia to be the first in the series of “Global Web Design” and there really must be a reason for it! Let's find out... read more →
No, we just couldn’t pass this article by. First, I thought publishing it in full here, but you better read its original with all its comments. It’s worth it if you’re into outsourcing or offshoring. Author is an Indian programmer... read more →
Just have found an amusing article on the Internet – Negotiating with Russians. While controversial at different points, it is a great source for any from the Western World to understand those savage Russians. Some excerpts from the article... read more →
Martin Fowler, “author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development” described his experience with offshore development and using agile practices, which we apply in most our projects, as follows: “For the last four years ThoughtWorks has operated a lab in Bangalore India to support our software development projects in North America and Europe. Traditional approaches to offshore development are based on plan-driven methodologies, but we are very firmly in the agile camp. Here I discuss our experiences and lessons learned in doing offshore agile development. So far we’ve discovered that we can make it work, although the benefits are still open to debate.” Let me express my opinion about practices he described... read more →