Archive for the ‘Application development’ Category

Web Video Solutions: Optimized Video Content for Media Portals

Monday, June 21st, 2010

With growing popularity of video sharing networks, video portals become an essential part of marketing web activities. While it is relatively easy to embed a video player into a website showing 10-20 videos, the real challenge is to develop a scalable video sharing portal with up to 10,000 visitors daily, tons of indexed movies with advanced search, intense commenting, categorization, tags, and, the most important – minimum time to load the page with video content.

In this presentation we would like to share our experience on how to efficiently and reliably structure video streams and servers for a medium-to-large size video sharing portal.

Social Network: building an effective social network application

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Check out some useful technical notes and hints on building an effective social network application in the following presentation by Softheme:

Ukraine: an Emerging Software Outsourcing Destination

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Hesitating whether to outsource or not your software development project to Ukraine?

Do not believe that Ukraine is a good outsourcing location?

Then have a look at the presentation that Softheme marketing staff has prepared specially for you and review the facts, which prove that Ukraine is a very attractive and promising software outsourcing destination.

Global CRM Market: 5 Years of Consecutive Growth

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Provided by Gartner, the world’s largest technology business research authority, the new research has shown that the worldwide customer relationship management (CRM) market experienced growth during last year (2008).

Those interested in IT outsourcing might find curious the figures which Gartner came up with. The researchers found that the global CRM market achieved revenues of $9.15 billion in 2008. According to statistics, this figure shows a 12.5% increase on the $8.13 billion revenue reported in the previous year.

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Softheme Programmer Discusses iPhone Development

Friday, July 31st, 2009

One of Softheme’s web developers shares his knowledge about iPhone applications development. He participated in the development of commercial applications for iPhone (USA). Having started learning to program for iPhone devices from scratch, he fully mastered the technology in several months and delivered mobile software solutions developed in accordance with standards and requirements of Apple.

1. What should a developer know in order to start programming for iPhone? How easy or complicated is it to start iPhone development?

First of all, a developer should have knowledge of Open C language as well as iPhone API, the library of standard components for iPhone. There is one more separate sphere of iPhone development, namely, development of games and graphic programs. Applications of this type have a bit different structure because they use the OpenGL technology instead of standard visual classes.

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