The project Vitralogy is truly exceptional. In the first place, it deals with the deadly infection outbreak striking the streets of New York. It is also an inspiring story of giving up everything and starting over... read more →
Let’s have a clue about high‐quality and low‐quality architecture and clear up why “adding one small feature” may take dozens of man‐hours... read more →
Do you fully understand what “development” and “testing” stand for? Together with our PHP team leader HireRussians convert this tech‐speak gibberish into English... read more →
The internet is buzzing with articles and programmer discussions about a new, increasingly popular official programming language for Android. Programmers are clearly head over heels for Kotlin, but what advantages does it offer for the end‐customer? HireRussians has compiled a list of reasons why you should ask your development team to code your next (or current) app with Kotlin... read more →
What distinguishes an "almost ready" app from a classy one? Actually, another 90% of development time. In this article HireRussians explain, why this strange 100=90+90 percent rule, formulated by Tom Cargill from Bell Labs, does always work. We'll discuss, what the main flow of an app is and what it means to "fail gracefully".... read more →
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 →
Pixel-by-pixel design implementation for mobile apps: what is it, why is it so expensive, and can you do without it?... read more →
When we speak of “mobile apps”, we visualize little bundles of awesomeness with which we love to play, fiddle and interact with. It’s hard to believe then that behind these apps is a complex server-side architecture developed by an experienced team of mobile developers, .NET specialists, PHP or Java coders. In short, why certain mobile applications cannot exist without a server‐side component.... read more →