Archive for the ‘Web development’ Category

The increased role of Agile

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

Agile is business need for Ukrainian outsourcers

Agile has become more than just one of the software development methodologies. Now it is the most common way of self-organization, that definitely dominates in IT-related professions. We decided to share some of our knowledge about Agile and offer our vision on implementing Agile into practice. (more…)

Software outsourcing predictions for 2012

Friday, December 30th, 2011
softwareoutsourcing predictions for 2012

software outsourcing predictions for 2012

We have only one day left until the end of the year, and we all wonder: what changes will 2012 bring?

In this post we have gathered the most notable trends that might play an imporatnt role in 2012.

Are there opportunities that can compensate the threats that come from the overall economic situation? We tried to figure that out below. (more…)

Protecting websites from holiday breakdowns

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

protect-site-from-holiday-traffic-spikesDuring the hot holiday season it is crucial to protect your website from breakdowns, as if it does not work right, your competitors will make money while you will lose in revenues.

Our website development specialists have created this list of tips and tricks that may help you to secure your customers and profits. (more…)

What makes Amazon’s cloud services so successful?

Monday, November 7th, 2011

aws_successAmazon Web Services (AWS) have become #1 area of growth for the company, as their latest report states. AWS grow even faster, than Amazon’s consumer electronics, demontrating 87% year-over-year growth and reaching $1B revenues in 2011.

Randy Bias has analyzed this success in his recent post for CloudAve.com.  He notes that AWS will be a $16B by 2016, thus becoming the biggest  infrastructure and hosting business in the world. So what are the drivers that make Amazon more successful than the other technology giants? (more…)

Mozilla’s chairman Mitchell Baker on the rapid release process

Friday, August 26th, 2011

firefox6Web developer’s community is actively discussing the new approach of Mozilla, where it delivers a new version of Firefox every 6 weeks. The main issue is compatibility of the popular add-ons like FireBug, FireShot, PixelPerfect, SeoQuake and others with the newer versions, that may lead to certain troubles in website design and development. At present moment all these important plug-ins work rpoperly only with Fireforx 3.6. That’s why the news that version 3.6 of the world’s most popular browser won’t be supported after the next Firefox release does not add optimism. (more…)

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