Happy birthday from the whole staff! It was nice to have you recently here in Kazan and hope you arrive on time enough to be able to celebrate a birthday with family! Hapy birthday!!!

On behalf of all the staff around here:

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. Have been thinking what nice image to attach to this post, like the Google’s view the most:

Dear readers, just updated the Idea Fuel Blog to version 2.1.2 and installed couple of nice widgets and plugins, still more to come in closest future! Any comments and feedback are welcome!

• Rating plugin added - please rate every post and let us know if it was good or boring!
• Views count - you’ll see the hot topics right at glance now!
• Tag Cloud - nice Web2.0 widget will be also there at your service now that we’ve gathered quite a few posts with tags
• And it’s all summarized on advanced statistics page now!

Hope to hear your feedback!

Just wanted to make a note, that siteMighty.com is planning to offer even more opportunities to professionals, and along with more premium templates that have been recently released now there is an additional Advanced account plan coming up in October!

In the beginning of October 2007 please now look forward to this new Advanced plan on siteMighty.com, with following new features:

• 10 sites - Now you will be able to manage up to 10 sites in one account!
• Landing pages - Landing pages are pages of your site, that can be accessed directly through an URL. Page content is being set by you and is made of offers of your choice and html area at the top with any information you want to be displayed.
• Even more support - As 10 sites that are able to create in Advanced new plan will require more effort support team will provide top quality assistance to make it more comfortable for marketer and help to manage all web-sites!

So in October, look for Advanced plan during signup for siteMighty.com services!

Congratulations! “Basic” and “Intermediate” accounts on siteMighty.com now have even more opportunities!

Paid users on siteMighty.com usually already know what kind of content to fill in their web-site, how to perform at least some basic SEO and attract visitors to web-site that means earning money.

siteMighty.com provides even more tools now for paid users to make it even more comfortable and fast to create new web-sites by rolling out new premium designs only available for paid users.

Click on the “Design” menu inside your control panel in siteMighty.com and you will see new designs that you can choose from to create new sites.

Please don’t forget that only Intermediate accounts can create up to 3 sites in one account. If you need more, please just create another Intermediate accounts.

P.S. They say there is going to be new advanced account plan soon available on siteMighty.com that will allow you to create up to 10 web-sites in one account, create landing pages for your PPC campaigns and much more!

“…In New Orleans, recovery has been spotty at best. The historic French Quarter and neighborhoods close to the Mississippi River did not flood and have bounced back fairly well. The city’s population has reached an estimated 277,000, about 60 percent its pre-storm level of 455,000. Sales tax revenues are approaching normal, and tourism and the port industry are recovering…” (from yahoo)

We’re with you guys, hope this city is all back into fully recovered state and running well!

We made it happen - First BarCamp in Russia!

The day of the conference was 4th of August, while Christopher Schultz was in Kazan, Russia at Flatsourcing-development department (that is located outside US for better cost/effective rate although it’s secure US-based entity with top quality standards).

Well, it was actually first BarCamp conference in Russia - we made it! Made people feel very comfortable, informal, we’ve broken all the walls and stereotypes of that Russians are very modest and shy to talk openly. It was even a surprise to me, how it looked similar to regular BarCamp that are happening in US, Europe and all over the world!

I definitely think we should do that one more time and meanwhile, please take a look at those materials that are available from the conference (copy-pasting from TatSoft web-site, blog that was covering the story in Russian):

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oleg_kurnosov/tags/barcampkazan/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/barcampkazan
Original conference official web-page: http://barcamp.org/BarCampKazan

What is so great about 30th of May? Is it because of that summer is coming? No, it is because of that is birthday of Chris!

It is a really great day, and I on behalf of all developers on staff would like to congratulate you with that great once a year holiday!

Time to take a pause, meet the family and friends! Please say “hi” to everybody and have a great time today from early morning to evening!

Happy birthday, Christopher!!! What a great day for all of us that you’ve been born!

Have a great time!

Oleg, Alex, Timur, Rustem, Ravil, Evgeniy, Dilyara.

Google goes back to pre-Katrina maps…Google’s popular map portal has replaced post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery with pictures taken before the storm, leaving locals feeling like they’re in a time loop and even fueling suspicions of a conspiracy.… (more…)

Hello everybody!

Great posts and comments, I too would like to initiate the thread where it would be great to share some of the development and management experience.

Some of the major statements that we’re building our typical development day structure around are:

• There are limited types of tasks in development
• Pure-coding time a day usually is not more than 4-6 hours a day
• In order for people not to use Internet in-office for off-development needs, at the same time exchange experience and share experience between each other, also in order to protect intellectual property of project being development and not allow code leaking some specific activities and techniques need to be in the IT companies that I’ll be describing

I’ll be commenting and adding several times a week, so please feel free to look into this thread if anybody is interested.

See you all later!

Oleg