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SoftElegance become a sponsor of the 7-th International Open Students Olympiad of Programming “KPI-Open”

SoftElegance become a sponsor of the International Programming Olympiad

SoftElegance announced its support of the 7th Open Students Programming Olympiadnamed after S. O. Lebedev and V. M. Glushkov “KPI-Open”, which will take place from 9 till 14 of July 2012 in Kiev, Ukraine.

This contest is driven by National Technical University “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” with the support of Ministry of Education and Science, youth and sports of Ukraine, and Cybernetic Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, since 2006.

Aside from providing general support for the Contest, SoftElegance will hold its own competition on practical programming with separate rewards and prizes.

 

Please find the full press-release at KPI-Open official website.

More information at SoftElegance website.

Tbe best from SoftElegance blog in 2011

Top 9 articles from SoftElegance’s blog in 2011

Here is the most popular articles from SoftElegance blog. Introducing you the 9 most readable articles from our blog.

In 2011 we got more than 10 000 pageviews and around 6 000 unique visitors. Thank you for reading us and we will keep inform you about latest news and trends in IT world in 2012.

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#1 Using Synchronous PageMethod Custom Validator Control and jQuery calls of ASP.NET AJAX’s PageMethods

This is success story of using Synchronous PageMethod Custom Validator Control in enterprise application development. Instead of using standard Synchronous JavaScript call we’ve expanded it to using jQuery.

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“Offshore Software Development Success Story” at PRLog

SoftElegance has released its offshore software development success story “A SoftElegance Technology Overhaul Establishes RussianNY.com as a Modern Web Portal” at PRLog.

PRLog is an online press release distribution service. PRLog was founded to help small, medium and large businesses and organizations in their online activities.

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“The project was close to failure, so RussianNY.com hired SoftElegance as a software development partner, hoping that a design and technology overhaul could save their web portal”, says the press release.

Please find the full story at PRLog: “Offshore Software Development Success Story: RNY is transformed into the leading ethnic web portal“.

SoftElegance’s internal discussion about upcoming Windows 8

Yesterday at SoftElegance we had internal discussion about upcoming Windows 8.

The first we’ve discussed in Metro style apps, what does it mean for developers. Than little bit about desktop, it’s UI and all legacy applications. Also it was discussed some new features like Hyper-V virtualization on ‘client’ version, support or ARM architecture. And for the end some feedbacks about BUILD conference.

Our main focus was on development part of Windows 8, or what Windows 8 will mean for developers.

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Please find our SlideShare presentation about the keynote topics we’ve discussed. This is not full of information presentation, it’s just the main topics to discuss.

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SoftElegance has participated in Simula’s research “estimation of software development effort”

World famous Research Laboratory Simula is doing research “estimation of software development effort” in Ukraine. SoftElegance has participated in this research as one of the software development companies in Kiev.

Professor Magne Jørgensen from Simula Research Laboratory and University of Olso is responsible for this study. Also SoftElegance’s developers and architects has participated in seminar “Software Development Efforts Estimation: Why it fails and how to improve it”.

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