At Sibers, we are not obliged to devote 100% of us solely to work, every day. Work should be fun and even more if you can be helpful to your co-sibers. Walking through our offices, you can often see people sitting with their headphones on. So I decided to launch a radio station to control their minds! :) Now if you’re in the network, you can just type http://design:8000 (design is the name of my computer) and listen to the best Drum&Bass tracks from my PC... read more →
We now have a status of Red Hat Ready Partner. Why? Because everyday our developers use Redhat Enterprise Server, Jboss Application Server and other products by Red Hat. Even now.... read more →
Programmers are NOT Developers... read more →
Today (shortly after DevDays), we’ve become a Microsoft Partner Registered Member, taking a start in the program of getting a status of Microsoft Empower ISV. At the moment, 20% of Sibers are working on projects that use Microsoft technologies.... read more →
Today seven of us (all came in one FunCargo) took part in Microsoft DevDays here in Novosibirsk. The conference was mainly about new products for software development for Microsoft platform. We’ve also got notepads, pens, some questionnaires and 2 booklets about Windows 2003 Embedded. We’ve got shown Vista and in the moment of demonstration of its protection against demanding applications, the computer rebooted. Other speakers showed VSTS DBPRO, WCF|Indigo, talked about WPF, security and CardSpaces. Halleluiah, no BSOD any more... read more →
October 7, 2006, the Rest House “Energetic” in a recreational area of Novosibirsk. Corporate celebration of 2 company’s historical dates – 8th Anniversary and rebranding. The celebration crowned the long preliminary process of developing a new style and a new brand as well as organizing the event itself... read more →
Yikes. The first snow. There’s a sign: the snow cover will stay for the rest of the winter after a month when it was the first snow. And this snow should melt soon. We’ll let you know.... read more →
We are using Microsoft Project for routine projects and resource planning, and it’s usual to see it in the windows taskbar. Most of our managers use laptops, so they can be in touch with customers and team members from anywhere. As one of good approaches for daily work, we use ‘stand-by’, ‘suspend-to-ram’ or hibernate options provided by Windows. It allows starting work immediately when you receive an urgent call or resume your work – no time to spend on Windows startup. Some managers have several weeks uptime on their laptops. But sometimes you need to pause (go for a meeting or the last-minute train), and usually there is a shortcut (my Acer has Fn+F4) to suspend your computer... read more →
Nowadays short-term development market is occupied by freelancers. Customers have to make a wise decision about whom to pay their money — either to a single-minded person, who is a manager, a developer and a designer all in one, or “overpay” to a development company, where they should pay to a manager, a developer and a designer separately. Long-term projects evidently call for choosing a development company. But what to do if you have a one- or a two-week project? Let’s analyze and see what you pay for... read more →
As a development company from the “capital” of Siberia and its renowned scientific center, we are used to reaching all the highest goals in what we are doing. Our developers adhere to this principle not only in their work, but in their private life as well. One of these days our Flash developer Grigory Dmitrenko, one of the active organizers of the Flash Seminar, tried his strength in parachute jumping. This kind of extreme sport can be taken by enthusiasts in the suburbs of Novosibirsk... read more →