Well-coordinated work across teams - let's say design and development - is a huge deal when it comes to delivering a good product on time! So, part of my job as a project manager is making sure that the assets passed from design into development are ready for implementation. At the very heart of the … Continue reading Improving App Design Review, Ensuring Design is Ready for Development
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How to accurately estimate external projects. Part 1 – Delays caused by communication
This is a first article from “How to accurately estimate incoming projects” series, aimed to help you see the possible future pitfalls. This includes both outsourcing projects and the ones where different teams around the world are involved.IT industry is dynamic. Companies change APIs, IDEs, upgrade hosting servers software, raise new compatibility issues. Of course … Continue reading How to accurately estimate external projects. Part 1 – Delays caused by communication
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Nothing new this 2 weeks. Well, in fact tons of new stuff this 2 weeks, but no time to blog at all. We are experiencing extreme-2-week-game-development and are almost ready to release "how not to screw up big projects" book (this is a joke, everything's under control). Meanwhile, we posted some stuff at codebranch blog, … Continue reading no title
MS to challenge interactive web with kinect controlling JS library
Latest post by LongZheng reveals MS Research’s plans to ship JS library for kinect-enabled website. We already mentioned this in our twitter, but today’s little article will take a look at opportunities that this fact brings to the market. Kinect has been a revolutionary addition for XBOX and sold millions of copies first year, becoming the fastest selling … Continue reading MS to challenge interactive web with kinect controlling JS library
AWESOME! Microsoft’s Speech Recognition and Instant Same Tonal Voice Translation
Having worked in the sound recognition field in mobile space (bird sounds) I know about this hard process a bit. Mostly I was using predefined algorithms and just implemented them in c#, but my poor knowledge and puny brain would never do such amazing stuff! Natural UI comes to life! You can always see that … Continue reading AWESOME! Microsoft’s Speech Recognition and Instant Same Tonal Voice Translation
Apple moves to ARM? No way in at least the next 4 years!
7 years ago Apple announced that they would be moving from PowerPCs to Intel’s x86 CPUs in two years because they had been producing less heat and running much faster (PowerPCs were built by IBM. The 8-core version of this chip also powers PlayStation 3 ). This was a very dangerous step, which definitely brought … Continue reading Apple moves to ARM? No way in at least the next 4 years!
Windows 8 Slates. Moronic Pricing in Russia
Hi everyone, as always I'd like to rant on the following: greediness and insanity of Russian retailers. The latest issue of Svyaznoy's catalogue is a great example of utterly insane management and completely moronic pricing amongst almost any hardware company here. I was pleased by 6 tablets announced to be sold by the retailer this month, all 6 from … Continue reading Windows 8 Slates. Moronic Pricing in Russia
Be Microsoft! Screw your shipping up!
I love Surface RT, the way it looks and works. I'm even ok with the lack of *mkv codec support (although, that's a NO for me, until there's an app). However, reading the latest articles on how MS "nailed" shipping Surface Pre-Orders again makes me tip my hat to Apple, because of it's polished supply / … Continue reading Be Microsoft! Screw your shipping up!
Zend guys on their enterprise victories
Oh that is sooooo awesome! I love when the guys speak like that xD /s Zend and PHP have made significant inroads into the enterprise market in the last few years — Gutmans told me that “when we go up against Java or .Net, we win — and the new integrated development environment for mobile, … Continue reading Zend guys on their enterprise victories
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