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Just released first version of techbrows…

Posted: May 16th, 2011 | Author: Boris Filipov | No Comments » Just released first version of techbrowser with 2 new additions. 1) It is not a big deal, but provided rather unexpected results :)

Javascript related content in techbrowser = 286 links and tags in total

Php related links contained in techbrowser = 122 links and tags in total

Python related links contained in techbrowser = 112 links and tags in total

Ruby related links contained in techbrowser = 105 links and tags in total

2) this time expected is an important addition feature: From this moment onwards, if a proposed tag is removed by user – techbrowser will learn that, and won’t show the ‘mismatched’ tag anymore for similar kind of links & their content.

Techbrowser now “learns”

Posted: May 12th, 2011 | Author: Boris Filipov | No Comments »

Well, not quite yet. But one step further.

latest: techbrowser has an extention to chrome upgrade too, as well as that new words/tags are taken into account once entered and remembered for further additions of urls and their tags parsing.

So here is a quick usage guide.

[searching]
1) open up techbrowser search interface
2) click tab and start typing search tags. (for example “javascript database mongodb”)

[adding via search interface :) ]
1) open up techbrowser interface
2) paste in any url (for example “http://nosql-database.org/” )
3) type in any additional tags
4) save and voala

[adding via add interface]
0) install the chrome (only) extension from techbrowser
1) click on the circle-black “+” button
2) type in any additional tags
3) save

PS. I was hoping that this kind of project goes fast & furious… Sadly the reality seems different but I’m happy that most of the interesting stuff is still along the way :)


I’ve been observing and capturing for q…

Posted: May 6th, 2011 | Author: Boris Filipov | No Comments » Organic Software Evolution I’ve been observing and capturing for quite some time several pre-conditions which eventually would lead or shift the whole development of software as we know it today to a completely different level, and here is an quick attempt to structure above as plain as possible (while in the same time taking action upon choosing a stack of development concepts, technologies and methodologies which would power ours current and future software projects). Read the rest of this entry »

Year 2010 in code

Posted: May 2nd, 2011 | Author: alex | No Comments »

2010 was a busy year at East, and now that companies are releasing their annual’s, we wanted to share a little different annual from last year.

In addition to design, we also deal with code, lot’s of it. Our code lives inside version control system, which records projects life with minute details. This life can be nicely visualized with a good tool, such as Gource, to give a different perspective about projects.

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This weeks links collection

Posted: October 9th, 2010 | Author: timo | No Comments »

Because East is in three physical locations these days, we use Skype a lot for our communications. And especially in its text based form. One of the communication backbones of East is a Skype group chat which is shared by the whole company. This is an unstructured feed of company instant information, questions, links, comments and discussions about everything and nothing in particular. Read the rest of this entry »


Why we use nodejs

Posted: September 10th, 2010 | Author: Boris Filipov | No Comments »

We work with quite a few different technologies, and one of the more recent ones is Nodejs. A technology which is not very wide spread yet, but gaining momentum really fast, and giving us benefits in terms of faster-than-ever implementation and amazing performance. Basic idea with Nodejs is to take the asynchronous nature of Javascript to backend-side. Read the rest of this entry »


Anatomy of a Facebook-application (with a picture)

Posted: August 12th, 2010 | Author: timo | No Comments »

Facebook Graph Api makes many things simpler for the developers. For example, there is less need for registration and login implementations; just use Facebook, because almost everyone has an account already. What various single-sign on projects have failed on, seems Facebook is now making a reality. Read the rest of this entry »


Fail fast!

Posted: April 18th, 2010 | Author: timo | No Comments »

One of the major themes the past year or two has been something that could be described as “We have to move shortest possible distance, fail fast, get up fast and because most of our assumptions are wrong anyway, we have to correct them fast”. This could be also titled “fail fast”.
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Free workgroup resourcing planner

Posted: April 9th, 2010 | Author: krum | No Comments »

Anyone managing production work for more than two or three people, has probably faced the problem of managing work allocations. So have we. That’s why we have created a nice little AIR-application for workgroup resource allocations. Oh, and its completely free for anyone to use! Read the rest of this entry »


How about some greeting cards?

Posted: April 6th, 2010 | Author: timo | No Comments »

Little example of East’s design and Flex (Flash) coding skills @ http://cardengine.east.fi/. This is a ecard-maker, which has been used as a part of some campaigns.