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Happy New Year
It has been a really long summer, winter, whatever blogging vacation for me. And I really feel sorry for that. The excuse for me is that I learnt a lot and will try to share my discoveries and observations with you from now on.
In this New Year 2009 I want to wish you to enjoy [...]
You will know what I read
As many of you I read many blogs and sometimes I would like to let you know which articles really touched me. Touched me so that I want to share them with you. Posting something like “Hey! Check out this recent post by Robin Robinson” is kind of silly.
I’ll use sharing feature of Google Reader [...]
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Technology adoption curve
Did you know that Microsoft recently added Mobile RFID to BizTalk server?
This event alone does not have an outstanding impact on the industry, but inspires some thoughts. Generally, each technology or product has (or has to have) two stages of realization, two waves of value generation:
Vendor invests into product development and realizes its value by [...]
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The books you read, or maturity test
Some time ago I was reminded of an article by a man whom I know personally and am really proud of being aquatinted with. In article “10 software developers’ books which shook the world, but are still unknown in Russia” (in Russian) Andrey Terekhov discusses top 10 books from his library which are definitely worth [...]
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Flow of Time
Time flows like the water through your fingers. Probably, time means to economics more than anything else.
“The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it and no marginal utility curve for it. Moreover, time is totally perishable and cannot [...]
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We Can Do It!
My colleagues presented me with a poster We Can Do It!:
Do you think they are getting at something?
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When you struggle to find free time
There are times when you say to yourself: “I really want to apply myself to this new idea. But I have to turn it down for the lack of time.” Sigh… And later you ask yourself “How could this happen that you do not have time for important tasks?” And that is a really good [...]
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Blogless month
This was a blogless month for me. For a number of reasons and for a none good reason among them. But this, of course, could not stop the world from revolving. So several events which worth attention happened last month:
Ukraine Joins the W.T.O.
SoftServe recognized among Top 10 Outsourcing Companies in Eastern Europe
Ukrainians Took Second [...]
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Outsourcing is not only about ODCs
Many articles on the topic of outsourcing to Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Russia etc. discuss establishing offshore development centers (ODC, unfortunately no comprehensible definition in Wikipedia). But ODC is not the only and for sure not the single universally effective means of offshore outsourcing.
For example, Outsourcing to Ukraine: Why the US$246 Million Industry Is [...]
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Geek and Poke