Doors open recap
May 8th, 2013
We hosted a Doors open event for students yesterday. It was a cool chance for students to see how a software design and development shop operates. And we had Rakia.
As a student, you mostly don't have any idea how a proper workday looks like. Over 60 future designers and developers visited our Zagreb office yesterday, and got a glimpse of the everyday work-life at Infinum.
New business cards
Still smoking hot and fresh out of the printing press, here they are, our new business cards.
Alongside the new brand refresh we have going on in the past few months, we went out and redesigned our business cards. Hope you like them!
Infinum Doors Open in our Zagreb office - Students invited
We would like to remind the students that all the hard work they put in, blood, sweat and tears during their college days are not in vain, not at all.
Besides the official recognition in the form of graduation ceremony, there are many great things waiting for them, just behind closed doors.
My Formula 1 fantasy game
If you can't drive Formula 1 cars or visit races, at least you can test your predictions skills right from your armchair!
Formula 1 is a very exciting and expensive sport, both for the drivers & teams as well as spectators. While the official website offers a lot of technical information, it lacks any additional excitement. So what's a formula-1-fan-slash-adrenaline junky to do?
The Infinum Test Lab: Device testing
If you want to find bugs in your software before the user does, you need to test on a respectable set of real world devices. In other words - you need a decent test lab. What do you need to build a good test lab? Read on.
Software needs testing
Modern software tends to be reasonably complex with many dependencies and different use case scenarios. Because of that, there is a reasonably high chance that some sort of defect has snuck into an application. That's where testing steps in.
To quote the famous Dutch computer scientist Dijkstra:
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
That being said, the goal of testing is to find as many bugs as can be found.
The New Infinum Website 01/04: Going mobile
The future is here. Making our new site work properly across a variety of different mobile and tablet devices was a challenge, but one worth taking on.
Responsive web design (RWD) has been around for some time now. Analyzing the stats from our old site, we were getting around 30-40% traffic from mobile devices and this figure just kept growing. We knew we had to optimize our new site for mobile, and responsive web design was obviously the ticket.
The New Infinum website is live, and it was about time
Good news everyone! We have a new site, and it's leaking awesomeness all over desktops, mobile phones and tablets.
Where we come from they say that the shoemaker wears the worst shoes. All too often, this is true in other professions. You get so tied up in your day-to-day work (which is building stuff for clients), that you never get around to building stuff for yourself. We had to change that.
A more transparent relationship between the user and the mobile operator
The tremendous breakthrough of software in recent years is creating problems for telecom operators.
With the advent of Internet companies such as Skype, Viber, Facebook or Gmail, the need for mobile operators has been reduced to providing the infrastructure for access to services which aren't in their offer and for which they have no direct profit.
Landline telephony over the last few years has become only an infrastructure for Internet access, and a similar thing is also starting to happen in the area of mobile telephony.
Setting up a new PC
I went on the Internet, and I found a funny comic depicting what it's like to set up a new PC.
Windows, Linux, Mac. None of them are perfect actually.
Croatia Traffic Info - 100.000+ downloads and a few cool things you should know
HAK stands for Croatian Automobile Club, and in cooperation with them we have developed a popular mobile application.
To start, let's break down the application into relevant numbers. The application has:
- 49.000 downloads for iPhone,
- 56.000 downloads for Android,
- more than 1.400.000 sessions,
- an average rating of 4.5 on App Store,
- an average rating of 4.7 on Google Play.
In a nutshell, this mobile application is a swiss army knife for people who travel, regardless of the distance. Taking these numbers into consideration, this has been recognized by a large number of users.