Flatsourcing

It’s been a week since TC50 and I’m finally getting around to blogging about the experience.  It was quite a week, and I was really grateful to Gerard Ramos, a long time friend, for taking a couple days off work to come to the conference and represent Flatsourcing...

We’re thrilled to be launching the new Flatsourcing Dashboard at the TC50 DemoPit. We’ll be in the DemoPit tomorrow, and are will be doing it up New Orleans-style with Mardi Gras beads and bottles of Tabasco. It’s been a lot of work getting the new Flatsourcing Dashboard ready for launch...

We’re ready to grow, and we need your help! Over the last six months, Flatsourcing has expanding its client base significantly. We spend May and June recruiting and training new programmers in our Kazan office, and we’re ready to take on new clients...

Gerard Ramos and I went to the Big Summer Geek Out last night in San Francisco.  We saw some great 5 minute pitches for new companies, my favorite being the startup TipJoy...

We’re ready to grow, and we need your help! Over the last six months, Flatsourcing has expanding its client base significantly. We spend May and June recruiting and training new programmers in our Kazan office, and we’re ready to take on new clients...

Gerard Ramos and I went to the Big Summer Geek Out last night in San Francisco.  We saw some great 5 minute pitches for new companies, my favorite being the startup TipJoy...

I’ve been having a great time over here with Oleg, Alex, Timur and the whole Flatsourcing Kazan team. We’re working really hard building some great plans for growth and from time to time we’re stopping to

We’re ready to grow, and we need your help! Over the last six months, Flatsourcing has expanding its client base significantly. We spend May and June recruiting and training new programmers in our Kazan office, and we’re ready to take on new clients...

Gerard Ramos and I went to the Big Summer Geek Out last night in San Francisco.  We saw some great 5 minute pitches for new companies, my favorite being the startup TipJoy...

I’ve been having a great time over here with Oleg, Alex, Timur and the whole Flatsourcing Kazan team. We’re working really hard building some great plans for growth and from time to time we’re stopping to

Identifying what we do to people is still very very difficult. I attended An Event Apart a few weeks ago and Jeffery Zeldman’s excellent speech about explaining what we do has had me thinking...

Short answer: Customize it. Long answer: Try to do anything with it for which it wasn’t built. Content Management Systems are built to be installed, not to be customized or tweaked to your needs...

Today, finally A List Apart Magazine outlined there vision on new technologies. It’s easier to recommend technologies, when such finally does something to understand and re-group according to modern world tendecies...

I did a quick video last week to showcase the Wednesdays at the Square where the Welcome, Party! will be tomorrow. All AEA-ers and NOLA BarCampers need be there. RSVP on Upcoming and follow me on Twitter for updates. Welcome, Party for An Event Apart from Chris Schultz on Vimeo.

I recently read a brilliant article from the economist. It’s called “Nomads at Last,” and talks about how omnipresent internet connectivity will change your job like cars changed them in the 50s. Of particular interest to us here at Flatsourcing is what this means for labor...

Congratulations to the whole Flatsourcing team in Kazan. Two weeks ago they spent the weekend moving tables, chairs computers and furniture to set up in expanded office space in our building in Kazan...

An Event Apart, a web design conference is coming to New Orleans. We’re thrilled that our city will be hosting this conference and some of the world’s finest designers...

One thing I learned on the Spring conference circuit is that company culture is a serious, serious thing. In some respects, the web nation really leads the charge on flexible human resources control. After a great conversation with Ben Gott of Indistr.com, I got to thinking about the Ruby culture...

Just saw a new Twitter via Geoff Livingston about a Wikinomics post about Worldsourcing. Defined as: Truly global scale. Worldsourcing companies have no single corporate headquarters Porous corporate boundaries...

Will and I attended a core conversation panel at SXSW called Outsourcing 2.0 led by Sandeep Sood of Monsoon Co. It was a very interesting discussion, and Sandeep worked through a number of topics that are important in the next generation of outsourcing...

Vinny Lingham, CEO of Synthasite was kind enough to share his thoughts on working with Flatsourcing.   Flatsourcing - Vinny Lingham from Chris Schultz on Vimeo

I just received the following email: xxxxxx <xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.com> wrote: i HAVE GOOD 500+ OFFSHORE DEVLOPER IN ALL TECHNOLOGIES IN INDIA IF YOU INTERST WITH US REPLY ME This type of spam makes me so mad, because it is what drives the impression of outsourced web development that most people have...

As all global IT companies Flatsourcing faces factors that used to be difficult parts, but not in modern age! For example what if your company has several offices...

How? Focus on listening. The best way to improve any outsourcing relationship is to listen better and more often. Your developer likely spends long hours ingesting industry information in order to be better than his peers...

Timur Vafin and me (Oleg Kurnosov) will be posting RubyOnRails-related articles here, for those who is not too much aware of it yet, here is what to start with: So, decided to learn more about RubyOnRails and don’t know what to start with...