What can make an average Thursday morning a little bit better? Probably lots of things, but one of them is definitely a basket full of warm and delicious buns and cakes. It always comes just on time to your morning coffee to build a winning combination for a nice mood for the rest of the day.
What a pleasure to work 2 mins away from the beach. Got tired with summer heat? We got solution below:
Hello again! It's been a while since our last post. Our load during last months could not let us find enough time even to post some news. But there is a hope that we will be able announce a couple of very exciting projects soon. In the mean time, wanted to introduce our new office pet: AR.Drone - an amazing quadricopter that uses iPhone/iPad as a remote control. This is a couple of first tries ("fail after fail") on a strong wind:
Of course you would not want to be a little AR.Drone surrounded by 20+ lame pilots without any license. But after going through a first stage of crashes and disappointments, we are now close to that moment when each take off will end up in a proper landing.
Initially we bought it with an intention to use for ... development :) That's right, we had some projects in mind, but decided to postpone them for a better moment. Now we primary use it to trim grass nearby our office, have fun and scare passerby .
Besides all other pros, Apple claims that iPad is also a perfect game platform. Perhaps this is especially true about games that are not very resource taking and this is proved by the enormous amount of easy casual games in the AppStore.
Now it’s obvious that if you want to create a casual game with the view of entering top100 apps you will need to have a brilliant idea, perfect realization, wide and thorough promotion and … a special appeal that will differ you from all other apps. It can be anything, unusual interface, special effects, beautiful sounds, etc, but would you ever consider placing a piece of hardware on top of your iPad? Sounds like crazy? See below.
Reading many different books about management of programming teams you can often find a chapter or two about establishing a good developer’s work place to make him more happy and productive. Of course it starts from a powerful computer and a stable Internet connection and continues with tons of other things. But nothing makes development as pleasant as a good and cozy chair!
From this moment Shakuro is a registered trademark. This means that there should not be another IT company called Shakuro in the world. It took us 1.5 years and a nice amount of money to register it.
Nowadays there are tons of reasons to invite your colleagues and spend couple of hours together. Last Saturday we discovered another one – First Bowling Competition between IT companies of our city. Wow! It sounded amazing right from the very beginning.
We are extremely happy to release a new long-waiting version of our site. As you may noticed we changed the site's look dramatically and hope our visitors will like it. Although we are not finished yet and keep changing things here and there, main ideas are already in place. If you have any thoughts about new design - please do not hesitate to tell us.
Most of our new clients face the problem of choosing the most suitable way to pay for development. To help them solve this problem we have put together some facts about each of the ways of getting billed into simple comparison table.
My Movies for iPhone light has been released recently and now it is available on the AppStore. More than 3 weeks of development turned into nice and useful application that can work independently or successfully complement PC based software.
Several days ago we found a site that from the first glance seemed to be very familiar to us :)
We had run across several sites before that took their inspiration from CGHUB, but this one was the most exact copy of it. After a few moments of disappointment we thought that it’s not that bad when you are copied, it just proves that some people think that your work is worth to be followed and this is a very pleasant and honest compliment.
Back in late 2008 when we first decided to start our iPhone department, we could not expect that in less than a year we will have to decline every second iPhone project just because availability of our iPhone developers will be constantly below zero. That's why we added another smart developer to our iPhone department last week and we believe this should fix our availability issues ... at least for the next couple of months :) Meet Alexander "iSasha" Goncharov
We are busy with preparing new screens for our portfolio. This project is a special for us, because this is the first project we did for Russian customer, even despite he lives in US, we are happy anyway :)
The project is for real estate agency that operates in the Miami, FL region. So if you want to buy/sell/rent a condo/building/office you are welcome!
We are happy to announce that after 6 months of intensive development we released another big project. Please meet Skatic - social network dedicated to music and everything that's connected with music. It's in public beta and we are collecting feedback from users regarding all aspects of the site.
With CakePHP inside, it features advanced navigation: pure ajax for regular users and non-ajax for search engine robots, those who have javascript switched off and for outgoing links (from bookmarks / other sites). The only goal for it is to let users enjoy music at a stretch as they browse other content on the site.
Just arrived from iPhoneDevCamp in Kiev, Ukraine. This was the first conference dedicated to iPhone application development in our country (at least the first one we have heard about) and its primary goal was to show that iPhone development community in Ukraine does exist. Moreover it was really nice to realize there are so many developers and other people interested in iPhone developement in Ukraine, much more than expected.
Everybody heard about iPhone, many bought it, somebody like it while others don't, somebody consider it another expensive and glamor toy, while others propose it as a symbol of our century. Whatever you think about iPhone makes it more famous than a second ago.
Shakuro is happy to announce that we like iPhone so much that decided to start our own iPhone applications development team several months ago. It was a well-thought step off the successful web-development-only way. Now we have three applications done, and more are comming.
Meet our iPhone team:
Odesk (http://odesk.com) hosts a "Site of the month" contest where Shakuro is represented with one of our latest works - CGHUB (http://cghub.com). The winner will be chosen by oDesk staff solely, but the number of votes will be also taken into consideration. So ... :) if you have a free minute we would appreciate if you could vote for us. You can do it using this button:
Thanks!
Shakuro now a happy user of a corporate version of Active Collab 2.1 (AC). It’s a really amazing project management tool and makes it really easy to collaborate between our clients, managers and developers.
We are very proud to announce that one of our projects has been approved by the CakePHP dev team to appear on the front page of cakephp.org site.
Now you can see "cghub" link under "Just baked" section and although it looks like a usual tiny link, it means a lot for us.
We are thinking about switching to a new style. We have several ideas ready and would highly appreciate everybody's opinion on them. If you have a minute please visit this page and tell us what you like more.
RIT(Russian Internet Technologies) - is the most famous conference (and probably the biggest one) in the former Soviet Union territory dedicated to web development and everything around it. That's why we (and other 1500 guys) could not miss it. Shakuro was represented by 4 of us.
Office #1
February, 2007 - September 2007
Square: 11m2 Team: 4 Ratio : a bit more than 2,5 m2 per person.
