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Happy Birthday to You, Scand!

Scand Ltd. is now 11 years old – quite grown-up and independent, having achieved professional success, yet extremely curious, open-minded and willing to upgrade itself and develop! Many happy returns of the day, Scand!

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Our First App at Skype App Directory

Visualizing things you want to explain is now possible and can be done remotely. We’ll explain, why: we have submitted our SkyRemote app to the newly-opened Skype App Directory! SkyRemote is just the first fruit and we have chosen it … Continue reading

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Congrats to Scand Table Football Champions’2011!

As the title suggests, the First Scand Small Chinese Table Soccer Championship (SCTS) entered its final stage – glorifying the winners. Our heartily congratulations to Sergey Tkachuk, the Champion, and Ivan Staskov, the Finalist! The winners are awarded with special … Continue reading

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GR8Conf is GR8!

Our colleague Alexey Sergeev is back from the GR8Conf that took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 17-19, 2011. The conference is an international event in the world of Groovy, Grails, Griffon and other GR8 technologies and attracts hundreds of … Continue reading

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Software Engineering Forum Belarus – 2011

May 19-20, 2011 SEF.BY is an international IT event held in Minsk annually. This year it attracted more than 450 professionals belonging to such spheres as software design and development, project management,  software engineering technologies and methodologies, IT human resources … Continue reading

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New Plugins for Omeka

April 28, 2011 Everybody interested in Web content and collections management, building and sharing educational systems or archival systems is welcome! Scand has announced the release of Comments and DownloadLogger plugins for Omeka – an open source web-publishing platform used … Continue reading

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Scand Contributes to Apache Batik 1.7

April 25, 2011 – Scand development team members built a patch for Apache Batik 1.7. Batik is a Java-based toolkit for applications or applets dealing with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) content. With the Batik toolkit you can easily use SVG … Continue reading

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April 11, 2011: Clouds and Skynet Attacks

Clouds – the fun, the rock! Indeed, clouds are admirable! No datacenters, no power supply needed, and nothing but Internet required. Sure, we use clouds frequently as demo platforms for our customers, also for quick testing of untypical environment, and … Continue reading

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Seminar for the SEO Crowd

April 01, 2011 our colleagues attended a SEO seminar (no kidding) organized by Webcom Media in the National Library of Belarus (Minsk). SEO gurus shared their experience of website optimization and usability practices, made forecasts regarding search engines development, discussed … Continue reading

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More Fun with Agile :)

March 16, 2011 – another scheduled Agile Club meeting was held in Minsk. The topic announced was “More Fun!” and the discussion covered the art of reaching balance between fun and productivity. Of course we attended the event and took … Continue reading

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