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  Testing and software quality assurance is an integral part of any development process. The quality of how it is organized can show the professionalism of the developer company. We at Sloboda Studio, pay special…

  We believe that communication is a number one question in IT projects. There are many ways to organize work remotely. For example, daily communication and calls in Skype help to be on the same…

  When the Project Starts The project begins when the customer comes to you with their own (not always understandable) vision of the project. Vision is an essential part of every startup, which is aimed…

  Every employer wants to hire a competent, qualified, and teachable employees and faces the problem: is it better to hire office workers, freelancers or apply to the agency?   Office workers It has become…

  A long time ago the world of a frontend reminded a set of chaotic pieces of a code designed to create functionality for a client part of a web application. There was a lack…

  Project Manager is an expert whose main task is, essentially, to manage the project as a whole: designing, prioritizing and scheduling tasks, monitoring workflow, adjusting communication, and promptly solving problems – all these, among…

  How to find out what clients want even if they already have told you, let’s find out… Evaluation purpose The presale stage evaluation is the most frequent case of our company that is focused…

  Modern life sets the fast pace of actions: decisions and payments should be made pretty quick. The last point could be released with online payment systems. There is a huge variety of payment systems…

  One month back one of our potential customer from Ursula in Sweden asked me what is the actual difference between successful and unsuccessful outsourced project? Probably you heard many sad but true stories about…

  Why is Ruby on Rails the best choice for web development? Rails is a pretty popular development environment, which is considered among the most practical. RoR is suitable for teams of varying size –…

  Some people generate ideas. Others can realize these ideas. Some people are good at submitting abstract ideas, but they are not good at technical terms, and there is a normal situation. But it is…

  Professional developers often face the difficulties associated with user interface creation. Even working in such a comfortable environment as Ruby on Rails, when making changes to the code (and this happens very often), we…

  Ruby on Rails is one of the best frameworks for the web application development. It is free, time-tested, has an extensive technical support base, and, most importantly, is incredibly easy to use thanks to…

  Feedback is not only someone’s opinion but also evaluation and analysis. Of course, this is when it is a feedback, not simple criticism for the sake of criticism. No matter how hard we try…

  The excitement of coming up with an idea for an amazing new website may as well disappear as soon as one realizes how much developing effort is required to make the dream come true….

  When one is choosing proper tools for development, it is natural they seek for a powerful one that will accelerate the process greatly and help to spend less money for implementation. It sounds like…

  Statistics have shown the hardest decision amongst startup has to do with which technology or language to use in development. However, in between this dilemma, amongst the top most popular languages and framework, NodeJs…

  Web scraping is a process of retrieving desired data from websites. It is used when a site from which you want to extract some data does not have an API, or web scraping is…

  You’d agree with me that for any individual or company that wishes to venture into e-commerce business must have heard of Spree Commerce or Magento. These e-commerce platforms are very popular, the functionality of…

  In this 21st century where we have quite a huge number of people who are conversant with Ruby on Rails but have no idea that some interesting or favourable websites they use were built…

  Choosing the technology for your startup is not the easiest task. If you’ve chosen Ruby on Rails, then we want to congratulate you. You’ve made the right choice! But before you start your project,…

  Kanban and Scrum methodology are terms which their meaning are similar and one could easily get confused when referring to one. In the same vein, how to use them and when to use them…

  There have been a scenario whereby clients come with an existing source code for refactoring because it has lots of bugs and it’s not running efficiently, a situation whereby the client decides to change…

  Airbnb, Shopify, GitHub, Basecamp, Bloomberg, Kickstarter, Luminosity, Twitch, Urban Dictionary, Zendesk… Apart from being successful and popular, each in their own industry, they all have another thing in common – Ruby on Rails as…

  Startups face many challenges that vary depending on the specific business, but in reality, there are 3 indispensable factors of startup success and how to range these three factors depends on individual. They are:…

  Automation is a great thing. “If you do anything more than once you should write a script”. Of course, there always a place for quick and dirty hacks for “right here and right now”….

  My colleagues won’t be happy when I share it with you.     Customers of outsourcing – you are extremely brave people. I really admire you. You work with remote developers and team. You…

    If you are reading this article, you are either working with a remote team or thinking about it. Perhaps, one of the biggest obstacles that managers or business owners have to overcome is…

    2016 is coming to an end and Sloboda Studio will like to give you a recap of the departing year. We are proud to say that in 2016 Sloboda Studio has attained new heights…

  Today we would like to share with you 5 rules which will help you to effectively invest your time in your business growth leaving worries about your projects development and/or support to the outsource-company….

  In March 2013 a client required us to develop a booking system for golf courses. Bookagolf is an online booking system for booking games in golf clubs of different countries. This project is a…

  Each manager practices his own techniques and templates that allow him to cope with an endless stream of managerial tasks and responsibilities for his business. I am often asked, how do I manage to…

  A week ago our whole CityFalcon team went to Kiev with our lovely customer Ruzbeh from the UK. CityFalcon – our one of the biggest project we ever worked on. Currently, there is the team…

  There are speical tools for site Rails site owners, which will help you to get your source to be more effective. So, let’s start.   1. Webvisor from  Yandex.Metrik Have you felt you like…

  Hello, my name is Pavel and I’m the founder of the company. Here I’m going to write about everything related to the business and web development on Ruby on Rails. I will cover following…