When it comes to the development of rich Internet applications, Flex outsourcing is a great way to significantly reduce the development costs, and benefit from the profound experience and technical expertise a good Flex outsourcing provider may offer. However, when developing AIR applications, Flex/ Adobe AIR developers often forget about provisions for cross-platform operability, which [...]

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Recently, I’ve stumbled upon an article by Joe McKendrick (an information technology analyst) at ZDNet.com dwelling on “big software glitches” and their consequences we observe today. There were mentioned the latest Toyota’s troubles, the failed attempt of TD Bank to integrate two IT systems after a merge, and more. Joe also pointed out that QA [...]

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In software development outsourcing management is a driver of sound, productive relationship. Good management of an outsourced project can help find out and solve any issues as soon as they evolve, talk over with the outsourcer the ways and possibilities of improvements, etc.
However, it’s very often a situation (and I’m speaking not only about [...]

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I’ve written about some of the misconceptions about Flex development in one of my previous postings. However, I seem to forget about, probably, the most common misconception – confusing Flex and Flash. Though they are both Adobe technologies, and are pretty similar, in fact, the way the applications are done is different.
Thus Flash development offers [...]

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Today, I’d like to continue an overview of issues with outsourced software development.  Many companies often underestimate the importance of incentives. However, they may become a catalyst for the increase efficiency of outsourced software development, and probably, for innovation.
The thing is that when software development outsourcing is of a transactional kind, there’s no place for [...]

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