We have been delivering software development services at Kvinivel for more than 8 years. During this time, I learned one interesting thing. We tried different kinds of cooperation namely outstaffing, outsourcing, some mixed things, time and material, fixed price, and some very customized billing schemes. Several years ago, I realized that a complete development cycle with a fixed price is the most efficient scheme for us and for our clients. This remains true even considering that we mostly work on…

Recently one of our clients asked me about the possibility to build a kiosk application with a Mac mini and a huge display with touch support. The display is really big about 2 meters wide. Why Mac mini, I asked, it's expensive and makes no sense. The client answered — “we just have one and our admin is like Apple”. I've investigated a little and asked our devs to make a proof of concept. And we found that it's possible…

The technologies I'm going to describe here are several years old, but taking into account our client's questions, I decided to write this post. Imagine you need to build an online classroom solution. The core functionality will be online video, online whiteboard, online presentation, and other features that allow teachers to share materials in real-time. Let's first take a look at video streaming. We can use WebRTC to make it possible to stream video from a web camera (or any…

There are a lot of posts about NodeJS describing innovative solutions for JavaScript on the server side. However, there is another place where JavaScript, V8 and Chrome HTML engines can be applied. That place is your desktop, and Electron is a technology that makes it possible to create desktop applications with JavaScript/HTML. I'm sure most of us already have experience in Electron. I'm sure that everybody who is reading has at least one Electron based application on this desktop. And…