Windows Phone 7 series multitasking

One of the most interesting questions about Windows Phone 7 series is – multitask or not. Lack of direct answers leads some journalists to bad premonitions. But let’s look close to what we know.
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Low-to-middle 3D tools analysis

This article is a sample of research analysis work.

First we need to characterize the segment:
- Premium segment targets movies, games and CAD tasks. The tools of this segment are oriented on 3D modelling.
- Low-cost segment targets custom scene rendering. The tools of this segment are focused on scene composition from prebuilt models.
- Middle-cost segment targets the same tasks as previous, but for more advanced users. The tools of this segment are still focused on scene composition, but they also allow material editing, limited modelling and more advanced rendering.
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Economic recession and software outsourcing

During the crisis the only way to run business is to decrease costs and increase demand as much as possible. In terms of software projects you need cheap and highly skilled developers. This is there the recession gives great opportunities.
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Technology overview: Ruby

The Ruby is initially multi-purpose language, but in this article we’ll focus on web development, since in other areas Ruby is much less popular.
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Technology overview: PHP

This material opens a long-awaited cycle of technology overviews. While one article couldn’t be sufficient to make well-grounded decisions, it should give enough understanding for reviewing technical proposals.
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Choosing software technology

In a classic software development, technology choice is left to the programmers’ company. This approach makes sense if the company have a broad variety of professionals, or if technology choice is obvious. But usually the development company offers solutions based on their staff skills, not the task.

So it seems logical to select the technologies first and the development company basing on it. The perfect way is to use independent consulting on this stage, but I’m going to give several guidelines on the technology choice here and brief overview of the most popular technologies in further materials.

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Developer quality guide

The software quality is a very popular theme. Every time you ask a development company about their higher price – you’ll hear about higher quality. This short guide will help non-programmers understand the meaning of development quality.
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Large companies

Overview

When you start moving a software development project to offshore, the most obvious choise is a partnership with big companies. They are the first in search engine results, you could found them through advertizing and if you put your project to freelance auction, the first bids will come from big companies. But obvious variant isn’t always better.
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Eliminating offshore risks

You want to start an offshore development, but heard about its pitfalls? Let’s find the smooth way by displaying and eliminating the risks.
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Removing the hidden costs

Found an old, but interisting article, named “The_Hidden_Costs_of_Offshore_Outsourcing“. Here are my comments to the points mentioned there.
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