RubyC as for me (5-6th of November, Kyiv)

November 11th, 2011

Hi all!
I’d like to tell few  words  about the  conference which took place on the 5-6th of November and  was named “RubyC” (rubyc.eu is the official site of the meeting) and I’ve been there as a listener.
Some features were very interesting for me. One of them was how to make rails application work faster by Alexander Dymo. The  main aim of this report was Garbage Collector (GC) in ruby. In general he told us about GC default values that build in ruby interpreter one of them value that call CG for each 8Mb. He proposed to pick up this value.

One more thing, that I has been interesting in, is creating of gems and posts from Pat Allan, which  helps to make applications more clear and structured.

There were some more discussions around Dmitriy Kostyuk’s report from HostPro CTO about cloud hosting for rails in Ukraine. I used this hosting 1 years ago and it was horrible I don’t know if  something has changed since that time,  but I hope so.
Currently Ruby on Rails programmers prefer more  Linod and Amazon.

Also  Roman  Babenko from our company was a speaker and told about Continuous Integration (CI)  in Ruby.

I’ was  really a  pleasure for  me  to visit this conference and I’m waiting for new meetings in the future.

Best regards,
Evgenii.S.Semenchuk

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RubyShift 2011!(October 22—23, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine)

October 25th, 2011

On the last weekend Dnepropetrovsk hosted a conference Rubyshift, dedicated to Ruby. Part of our team also visited it.

The event turned out great! There were a lot of rubists not only from our country but also from Germany, USA, etc. Speakers presented interesting reports, which were peppered with good discussions during the breaks.

Special thanks to the organizators - everything was just fine, including a party at the end of the day(Puzata Hata cafe) and warm atmosphere during all event.

In addition to this we are happy just because of the fact that conference happened, as it is then following by RubyC, which means that the community in Ukraine is growing and more and more people are coming to the conferences and it is really good! We sincerely wish to continue!

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Shop2Market project wins two more awards!

September 15th, 2011

One of our   projects, Shop2Market,  wins    two  more   awards  this year! It has become a winner of the Red Herring Europe 100 Award. The winners have been judged on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, including technical innovation. And   on September 14th 2011 on E-commerce Awards in Paris Shop2market  has won Digital Marketing award!

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Work in Carpathians Montains

September 10th, 2011

It appears that Gera-IT has  already  a well-established  tradition,   traveling  and working in August with the  team   in    the   Carpathians  Mountains.

As result  for the  second  year  a group of people was living and working in a beautiful eco cottage in mountains. Hotel was selected primary by quality of internet connection :)

The  regular day  activity  was including morning Yoga  hour on the grass, cycling and  working  around  in the  forest, late night guitar  performances  with  songs (thanks to Roman, Yakov, Dmitry), meditation at starts on the night sky.  And of  course  a little   bit of  programming ;)

Everybody enjoyed a lot these 2 weeks and we returned back to city full of natural energy :)

We think that we can call such type of work with  new term “Mountain IT team building “ :)

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SplitYourExpenses also in Russian now!

May 27th, 2011

Meet  SplitYourExpenses android  application!
When you are travaling with you friends, there are always a bunch of mutual expenses for food, transport, hotels etc…This application will help you to enjoy the journey and forget about calculations during your travel.

SplitYourExpenses supports also Russian localization now! We will be glad to receive feedbacks

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Shop2market wins Marketing Innovation Award

April 24th, 2011

We are glad to announce that one of our project,  Shop2Market,  has won Innovatie Award 2011!

We would like to thanks our guys  for their hard work and sleepless nights.

On April 19th, during ‘De E-Commerce Dagen’ (large E-business tradeshow in Utrecht, The Netherlands), Shop2market has won the ‘Thuiswinkel Innovatie Award 2011’.
Shop2market has won the award because of its innovative features, the high level of scalability and the International potential.

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Barcamp-4, 03-2011

April 21st, 2011

There was interesting format selected for last Barcamp. Kinda free discussion between rails specialists. During first conversation there were a lot information about large projects planning and implementation. It was interesting to listen Roman Babenko’s sentences about work organization. Second part under Stan Pogrebnyak’s moderation was even more interesting because discussion was based on real high-loaded project and Stan’s own experience. Also there was a lot of useful information received from public replica.

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Results of Gera-IT work-2010

December 30th, 2010

On the threshold of New Year holidays we are willing to summarize the results of  work of our team for 2010 year.

First and most important achievements  are maid by two guys from  our team. They have gain higher bonus level turning into “Fathers” this year. We want to express our gladness and respect to this guys :)

Second, we are giving home to two turtles in new year.  Which is also very exiting, as we will have constant resources of pizzas in our office  brought by Donatello and Raffaello.

As for other achievements, our team has grew up nearly twice  this year. We have started a number  of projects on  Ruby on Rails 3, gaining benefits of  new features. We successfully started work on  several  big and  complex business projects in medical industry, launched a complex Europe oriented real estates application, proceeded work  on  a huge business platform for internet marketing keeping millions of request per day from  huge european web-shops. Enchanted, added new functionality and provided support of the ERP application for the huge European logistic company.  Launched a number of e-commerce applications, an on-line game, SAAS applications, a news portal, social web-applications, business applications  etc.

Our company was sponsor of several  ruby conferences in Ukraine. Our developers were speakers on the
conferences and also leaded masterclasses.

We gained gratitude and  thanks for high quality  and in time results from many new customers, and we are very grateful to them for the possibility to work on so many interesting and successful projects.

Also many thanks to every member of our team, guys you are great!

We are really very happy with the results of  passing year, and  we think that next year will  be even more successful and will bring more interesting challenges we will gladly take on. And we wish luck and new achievements in New Year to all our partners, customers and everyone who is reading this post.

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Happy Holidays!

December 25th, 2010

We send you our best wishes and real Christmas spirit this holiday days!!!
Wishing you love and warmth in you families!!!
Happy- happy Christmas!

Gera-IT Team

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Happy Birthday, Dmitriy! You really rock :)

December 21st, 2010

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