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11/12/2015

Concatenate All Contiguous Cells to the Right into One Cell In this post I offer a tiny VBA macro snippet I once wrote to save me a lot of time preparing spreadsheets for my business partner. It's trivial for a VBA programmer but if you're not so comfortable with VBA macros, just use this code to address the same problem or even adapt it for any other situation requiring a similar approach. [ 725 more words. ]

https://wildwoollytech.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/combine-excel-cells-into-one/

Concatenate All Contiguous Cells to the Right into One Cell In this post I offer a tiny VBA macro snippet I once wrote to save me a lot of time preparing spreadsheets for my business partner. It's ...

24/10/2015

Prehistoric, big, dominating virtually every corner of the globe for an eon—the legacy, enterprise-scale VB6 system still exists in many forms today. If you are not planning continuity and succession for your line-of-business VB6 application, you could be planning your own extinction.

https://wildwoollytech.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/vb6-and-the-dinosaurs

The heading below was originally my working title. The title above is the replacement after I realized the first couldn't have been drier if I'd tried. I needed something a little more interesting....

31/05/2015

Let’s set the stage: You’ve always wanted to work at an early stage startup that is growing exponentially. So you’ve done your research and figured out..

04/04/2015

A very good article from a failed startup founder:
- "most first-time entrepreneurs don’t listen to advice very well"
- "Your assumption should be that nobody wants your product... We spent months and thousands of lines of code building out feature after feature... the 'build it and they will come' mentality."

[This post originally appeared on Medium and is reposted here with the writer's permission] “Hi, I’m Jason from Critica.” That is how I introduced myself for the past year and a half. My startup wa...

08/10/2014

Perhaps not incredible but there are still many VB6 line-of-business systems in use. It's ancient technology probably holding those companies back in ways they don't even realise. Yes, there are good reasons some haven't bitten the bullet to upgrade. The reality is though that one day the bullet may turn around to bite them if they do not evaluate their options seriously and plan now.

It may come as a surprise to you, but Visual Basic 6 is still a major component of many larger enterprises, especially in the financial sector. And with Windows XP rapidly approaching its end of life companies are again left with the painful question of how to leave it behind.

13/06/2014

What do you think of your employer? Your manager? Award-winning startup, Glassdoor, lets workers anonymously review their workplaces and share their salaries!

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30/05/2014

Luxsoft will eventually have no more than 20% of its staff in one geographical location and is relocating 500 Ukrainian workers out of Ukraine. Luxsoft and EPAM both moving into other countries. Current customers are relatively stable but no new business is forthcoming while Ukraine is in a de facto state of war

As Ukraine's troubles continue, the effects are being felt in the country and further afield.

05/05/2014

Ukraine has a growing tech industry and is a strong outsourcing destination but it is still immature compared to the West. Many Ukrainian developers think of the number of years that they can show in a specific technology on their resume as THE one determinant of salary and position. These developers will eventually find themselves falling behind as the industry matures while the more rounded professionals - those who work on their "soft" skills - will rise to the top and be sought after by clients and employers. In a recent US survey of 2,138 hiring managers, more than 75% say that non-technical skills are just as important as technical skills; 16% say they value desirable personality traits MORE THAN hard skills.

The future of IT in Ukraine promises greater benefits for everybody. In the future, developers will: find it harder to shop around for higher salaries with only narrow skill sets (e.g. "I should be a senior developer because I have built websites in PHP for 5 years"); increase commitment to standards and deadlines; engage less in moonlighting projects (a borderline unethical practice common here).

Some Ukrainian companies like Tieste have Western management backgrounds that provide a bridge between the expectations and standards of the West and the technical strengths of Ukrainian developers. While the industry here continues to mature, the value of this bridge can hardly be overstated.

Technical skills aren't the only things employers are looking for in new hires.

06/01/2014

All of us at Tieste wish you a very Happy New Year! May your 2014 be filled with business, professional, and personal success!

10/12/2013

"How much would it cost to build my app?" If we had a dollar for every time we've heard this question we'd already have enough to build you your first release or MVP (minimum viable product)! Better yet, if we had a dollar for every answer proffered by coders in far-flung places like Pakistan, on oDesk or Elance, hacks cobbling together prefabricated frameworks with a few lines of code over a weekend, app development vendors who can use your website or page to generate your new app, in minutes, that NO ONE will download or use... well, if we had a dollar for every one of these, you would probably get your development and marketing for free for a whole year or more! So, seriously, how much WOULD it cost? Here's a good place to start (before you start talking to any coders!): http://lnkd.in/d8X3uwN

Jeremy Rappaport is a writer at Fueled, the leading iPhone application developers and masters of mobile design in New York City. This post was originally published on the Fueled blog. Everyone ...

06/09/2013

Tieste opens its new office in downtown Odessa this week!

10/07/2013

http://www.cio.com/article/735627/CIOs_Need_to_Up_Their_Outsourcing_Vendor_Management_Game

As the IT outsourcing industry is undergoing some fundamental changes, CIOs will need to take their vendor management game to a new level. Forrester vice president and principal analyst John C. McCarthy discusses how CIOs can move from outsourcing procurement to true vendor management.