If you have tried Facebook application for iPhone called Pages, you have felt the easiness of managing all your pages from one place. However, you can’t upload a video from your phone. You can only paste the link to Youtube one. You know that recently Facebook has introduced the post planner tool right from the Facebook page. All applications that provided this ability are now seriously endangered and their owners have a hard...

Today’s startup movement is booming not only in the US but also in Europe. Startup weekend Bratislava has brought a bunch of creative ideas and a couple of very good implementations! I was present at the final presentations and enjoyed seeing new faces as well as the serial startupers I’ve known. Those idea makers who have got programmers in their team, have proved to be extremely effective – during 54 hours (with some hours...

It’s not a secret that I’ve moved to another country last year. For me it was a challenge as well as a good opportunity to get to know new people and explore new lifestyles. At the same time I realized that I didn’t have any friends and acquaintances to spend time and share opinion with. How have I overcome this problem? Basically you can use the approach I’ve developed whenever you need to dig into the field you are not...

Many of my clients told me that  it was incredibly difficult to find developers for them. I am talking not only about how to outsource but also how to find internal programmers. The problem is mainly in their qualification and cost. We were cooperating with many established Western businesses who gave up to find a good internal developer and started to search external/freelance one. What are the benefits of external developers versus internal...

As an IT company project manager I sometimes had to find external resources for a project when ours were all busy. This was a good time to try freelance websites like Elance, Freelancer, Rentacoder, etc. I registered there and started to search for graphic designers with good reviews. First of all, there were 80,000 of results for a keyword “graphic design”. I’ve dropped a message to several of a first-page IT freelancers. But...

Imagine that every day 33,100 people google for “russian IT market”. It shows how interesting this area appears to an English-speaking businessman. Indeed, Russian market is perfect for IT outsourcing and offshoring. Russia and Ukraine have much many programmers than it’s required for an internal need. My experience in working or just chatting with Russian and Ukrainian IT market representatives shows that the difference in IT...