Last week Sphere participated in Google Developer Day 2011 which had taken place in Moscow. Our developers were able share knowledge about our expertise in Android, Chrome, HTML5, Cloud and more. Google Developer Day is a one-day event featuring advanced technical content on Google platforms and products from the teams that work on them. Here’s [...]
Yes, we are going to host a Ruby meetup again in St.Petersburg on September 14. We are going to cover Rails 3.1, CoffeeScript, Asset Papeline, Bundler’s secrets, Knockout.JS and much more. Here is a post on the blog covering out previous meetups: http://blog.sphereinc.com/2011/03/our-ruby-meetups-in-march-brought-over-100-developers-together/ Here’s a list of topis: Bundler: Tips & Tricks Rails 3.1: Asset Pipeline [...]
I’m very excited to write that two Ruby meetups we organized in St.Petersburg, Russia and Kiev, Ukraine could bring over a hundred Rails developers together. To be precise it was our third meetup in Russia and the first one in Kiev, Ukraine where we recently opened a new R&D center. We had 15 talks in [...]
Sphere’s is actively developing projects with Python and this year we’re going to attend several Python conferences. Thus, if you bump into someone in a Sphere’s t-shirt, please don’t hesitate to say hi or grab us for beers Here is an uncompleted list of Python conferences you might want to attend. If I happened to [...]
At Sphere, we strongly believe that sharing our knowledge using the open-source model of development helps all of the parties involved achieve the desired results. Contributors aid each other in improving software, making the final product more suitable for the end user. Our philosophy at Sphere rests on the notion that being a leader [...]
Sphere Consulting has recently participated in a hackathon. If you aren’t familiar with this word, as I was, don’t worry, I will explain what it is. Hackathon is an event when programmers meet to do collaborative computer programming. Usually in a limited amount of time, say 36-48 hours, programmers have to come up with a [...]
Our second meetup in St.Petersburg went great and gathered 50 Ruby developers. What was surprising for me is that some people traveled from Moscow, Omsk, Novgorod and Karelia to attend the meetup. May be next time we can expect some international guests? Who knows Some of the topics were really interesting, just to name a [...]
Last week we hosted our first Rails meetup in St.Petersburg, Russia. It was an interesting experience and what’s more important people loved it. Over 20 Rails developers showed up (apart from a dozen of Sphere’s developers who were there as well). We had 6 presentations including two from people who came over. I want to [...]
