Our PHP Team Leader is interested in every new feature Eclipse releases. So the three new additions to Eclipse expanding the platform possibilities to support dynamic programming languages and Ajax technology are... read more →
Although, we have a big Linux team, sometimes our developers used to work in Windows have to switch to Linux for their projects. Our senior PHP developer Valery Makarenko has put together a list of his everyday programs and their Linux analogs... read more →
Due to the national Russian holiday, our offices will be closed on Friday, February 23. We’ll be back on Monday.... read more →
This week our Sales department is breaking its records and we put 9 new long-term projects into development. Without disclosing our clients’ private information, I just mention technologies the projects are in. 1 project for MacOSX 1 project in .Net/Windows Forms 1 Flash project 2 PHP projects 2 Java projects (for web) 1 VoIP project And we launched architecture and specifications phase for a large Internet project. It’s good to mention that several projects are our return clients who decided to give us new work.... read more →
One of the most important aspects in the entire pre-development phase is producing accurate relevant estimates and proposals. This work is a responsibility of our Sales Managers and CTO Team. This week we had a seminar organized by the CTO Group for our Team Leaders. CTO Andrey Gavrilov explained the Team Leaders the core factors of a good estimate and how to put together a technical proposal... read more →
This week we are celebrating an ancient holiday, a purely Russian one, which dates back to the pagan times. The idea of the holiday is to see the winter off and welcome spring with the nature revival and warm sunshine. People have always honored the Sun, so one of the main symbols of Maslenitsa (or Pancake week) is a pancake. It is as round, gold and warm as the sun... read more →
For us as an offshore IT company it’s vital to get in constant touch with our customers. The Internet is one of our main tools as our chats, mail, sites, IP phones work through it. Unfortunately, even good Internet providers can’t avoid some malfunctions. That’s why we decided to have an alternative channel in case of emergencies. It proved to be quite handy yesterday, when the main provider failed to support the net for some time. The alternative channel had already been active, so the local doomsday was cancelled... read more →
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 →