New Rails projects!

Many important things happened here in OBS Labs since my last post. We visited European Rails conference in Berlin, Germany. We completed Social Network site for web startup in Switzerland (hope its going to be another exciting site about wine). We participated in softlaunch of Quevita (http://www.quevita.com/) potentially largest European social network around healthy living style.

Now i am in conversation with Supercool School (supercoolschool.com). This can be non-profit project where i and some of our developers could use our Rails coding skills to bring Change in Africa and countries with weak education system. This is going to be top cool project and i cant wait to join this Supercool team.

New department

As I recently announced we are completely moved on Rails and our company supposed to be the biggest Rails Lab in St.Petersburg.
I moved all .NET and Java people to RoR department, leaving only support people to help our clients with applications we created for them(mostly .NET client/server)
Why we choose Rails?

1. We collected pretty good experience in it
2. I believe it really speed up typical project development cycle.
   

My nearest goal now is to open special department where i will mostly work myself and with our top experienced developers when needed.

With my over 5 years experience in sw outsourcing i am going to offer unique Audit, Consulting, Interviewing, Remote Project Management services.

I know Russian, Eastern Europe and India sw outsourcing markets very well, and i believe my services will be useful for those companies planning to archive best from their remote outsourcing partners.
We will start this service under new brand other than OBS, but its still me and our best experts. If you have questions about this right now you can contact me immediately

Vlad Gurgov,
CEO, OBS Labs

New RoR project: lightweight Basecamp clone

It was long time ago when i posted here last time. We work hard to produce v2.0 of HR site on
which should be released very soon.

Meanwhile on this week we started small but very nice and attractive project. It should be as lightweight clone of well-known Basecamp RoR project management web tool. We are creating this project for our Switzerland based customer, who was introduced to me after RailsConfEurope.
This project suppose just 2 iterations and then applying design, which is provided by sofamade. I wish Slava, who work on this project, much luck with it!

Rails Conference Europe

I really had a lot of fun time in Berlin on this event. That was a great chance to meet other nice people doing same stuff.

The great difference of RoR is that Ruby people are really open and nice and we spend a lot of fun time with many of them.

So, in contrast to for example J events, as one of speakers noted, most of the time people spoke about some cool stuff they do, discuss great Web 2.0 projects, not speaking about things like "dont you know that J2EEXMLCORBARPCWSSOAP stuff???"

If some one of my new friends reading this - please drop me email, was nice to meet all of you!

I will post couple of Berlin pics i made bit later here!