I did a quick video last week to showcase the Wednesdays at the Square where the Welcome, Party! will be tomorrow. All AEA-ers and NOLA BarCampers need be there. RSVP on Upcoming and follow me on Twitter for updates.
Welcome, Party for An Event Apart from Chris Schultz on Vimeo.
Today, finally A List Apart Magazine outlined there vision on new technologies. It’s easier to recommend technologies, when such finally does something to understand and re-group according to modern world tendecies!
Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails by Michael Slater
Getting Started with Ruby on Rails by Dan Benjamin
P.S. Flatsourcing have been working with RubyOnRails since 2005. We are among the first! And it’s the CTO of Flatsourcing, Timur Vafin who initially recommended RubyOnRails as additional and potentially main programming tool for Flatsourcing! A lot of skeptics including me didn’t fully understood the potential and future behind it! I do now for sure already since 2005! Also A List Apart does now too since 2008! Thanks, Timur!
I recently read a brilliant article from the economist. It’s called “Nomads at Last,” and talks about how omnipresent internet connectivity will change your job like cars changed them in the 50s. Of particular interest to us here at Flatsourcing is what this means for labor.
The blackberry and the iPhone have essentially freed the sales force from rigid schedules and desk jobs. Workers become nomads, setting up meetings easily, selling when their is demand and planning when there is not. Chaining people to desks prevents the freedom of work-style and breeds a lack of motivation. We must motivate ourselves to do something great, as motivation is the only path to success. Easier said, if you’re hungry, you’ll find food.
Labor is now based on results and deliverables because management is mobile. After all, we’d all appreciate a more talented individual finishing the same job in less time.
At flatsourcing we provide web development services that free our clients from desks so that they can make more sales and more money. We implement this idea in our own staff as well. We work based on deliverables and satisfaction.
When you were in college, your professor said, “turn in a paper by Friday,” but didn’t care how or where you did it. Tomorrows workforce will be much the same: fidelity to the job not the desk.
Congratulations to the whole Flatsourcing team in Kazan. Two weeks ago they spent the weekend moving tables, chairs computers and furniture to set up in expanded office space in our building in Kazan.
We’ve been growing fast this year, and the new space is going to give us continued capacity to grow. This is an exciting time for everyone involved.
It’s been a great team effort over the last couple months as we’ve integrated new clients and worked through internal growth (like new office space) while while maintaining our high standards for client service. It’s been stressful but exciting.
Congrats to the whole Flatsourcing - RU team on the new offices. RoR development ninjas looking for a great job in Kazan should contact us. We’re hiring.
PS: Check out the cool office layouts that our lead designer Alex did. These are the actual office layouts.
An Event Apart, a web design conference is coming to New Orleans. We’re thrilled that our city will be hosting this conference and some of the world’s finest designers.
We decided that we wanted to get our BarCamp NOLA community back together and what better way to do that than to host a party for the AEA attendees. Better yet… why not invite everyone to a great party that’s already going on. So that’s what we’re doing:
Welcome, Party. // New Orleans welcomes An Event Apart to the city with a party in the park and free music.
An Event Apart attendees will get a chance to meet, mix and mingle with New Orleans BarCampers, designers and developers. We hosted the first BarCampNOLA in February, and this event will help the community build on our momentum, reconnect, and meet designers from all over the country who will be in town for the An Event Apart Conference.
This is a FREE event. We are hosting this at the Wednesdays in the Square concert series in Lafayette Square so we all enjoy music by Big Sam’s Funky Nation & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Beer, wine and food are available for sale.
For event coordination questions or info contact Chris Schultz (cschultz@voodooventures.com) or Will Donaldson (will@flatsourcing.com). Flatsourcing.com will be passing out cool Jazz Fest Grids (you’re staying for the Fest, right?).
Follow us on Twitter for tweet updates the day of the event:
http://twitter.com/cschultz /http://twitter.com/willdonaldsonRSVP on Upcoming.org or FacebookÂ
One thing I learned on the Spring conference circuit is that company culture is a serious, serious thing. In some respects, the web nation really leads the charge on flexible human resources control. After a great conversation with Ben Gott of Indistr.com, I got to thinking about the Ruby culture. PHP and Javascript can come along too ;)
Ruby companies adopt the ruby mindset. We like to get things done quickly and efficiently. We focus on a user’s needs, while attempting to circumvent busy work through Ruby’s super cool time-saving conventions. We believe in handling business simply and giving control back to our clients.
In that respect, I think human resources has really come a long way thanks, in part, to Ruby. Construction is agile, as we often have to turn on a dime. You can’t work in a chaotic environment without an open, trusting, results-based relationship. The beer at the end of the day tastes a lot better when it comes with satisfaction of a job well done.
