For all you social networks fans there’s a new sensation coming to the party. It’s name is Goodreads – the perfect place for people who enjoy reading. The main reason why I got intrigued by it was that I like to keep track of what I am reading, have read, and most importantly, would like to read. Goodreads gives you all that and much more.

Finally it happened: PHP 5.3 was released. It was a long awaited release, as it brings many improvements and features together with over 140 bug fixes. It’s almost like PHP 6 but without full Unicode support. In this post I will present the things I was either particularly waiting for or was just interested in.

Agile SCRUM defines the way how people should cooperate on the daily basis. However, in reality we are faced with situations where Agile rules are hard to use. How to handle such exceptions not destroying Agility in the team?

Thanks to the Internet the market you can reachhas dramatically increased. If you manage to bring your business online geographical boarders will disappear. People can read about your business, while they probably could hardly do that before.  The main question is how to reach all those potential clients. Again the Internet may help because the market for advertising is shifting more and more towards online advertising. A decent Internet Marketing Strategy should become part of your marketing strategy. And your online advertising plan will for sure have to include Google Adwords! Below you will find some tricks how to use it, provided by Google.

It’s been almost a year since we started implementing the Agile way of working by using SCRUM. During this time we have delivered several projects from very small to medium ones. Was it worth following this methodology? Is SCRUM really improving the way we deliver software? And what did we learn? Through this post we would like to share our experiences and lessons we lerarned. We are looking forward to receiving your feedback as well.

If you have been online today, you couldn’t have missed it. A new Firefox release is available, after several hours already over 2 million people downloaded the new version. High time because the last official release is about one year old. Despite all the buzz that was going on today on Twitter and other social networking sites and blogs, what does this really mean? Who is going to use the new fancy functionalities? Based on some analysis of web statistics I presume that the first user group will be mainly software developers and web designers. Besides I do not believe that Internet Explorer will lose any market share.

“Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”

Finally Firefox 3.5 is out! What could we expect from this new release? After a few weeks of intensive advertising I expect to see some fireworks. Hopefully, it won’t fall short of my expectations.

The time has come to present your business online if you haven’t done it yet! Take Poland, for example, here only about 48% of businesses present themselves online. Time for a change! Recently PMR communicated that online retail is growing in Poland, like it is growing everywhere. Combined with the increase in online banking and the amount of people that have access to the Internet, the market is getting ready for the next online sales increase. Retailers and small businesses (SME) should be aware of that. Decide for yourself why you would like to (not) join this trend. Although this article is based on data related to Poland, the advise provided is applicable to all retailers and SME’s.

Do you know the feeling when you look at your screen waiting for the project to build its workspace for hours or when you have to search the whole project in order to find a simple function ? If you do I recommend trying NetBeans as your primary IDE.

A major new version of the Eclipse software development platform was released on 24th of June. It was the ninth annual release of the Eclipse project – Galileo with the Eclipse Platform 3.5. The Eclipse Galileo release includes 33 projects which translates into a large number of new features. In this article I will present the 6 features that I have enjoyed so far.