Offering Development from Ukraine
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:28 pm
Today, @Hutchboy wrote in "Re: LiveCode and HyperStudio" regarding the website of HyperStudio which states: "Our hearts are with the people of Ukraine as they defend themselves from the Russian army. Many of our talented staff live and work there, where we've had offices in Kyiv for more than a quarter century."
This reminds me that for 20 years I had a company in Ukraine, and we had over 100 hard core software developers working on large industrial projects, mostly using C/C++, driver development, etc. Some even used LiveCode that I had taught them. They picked it up immediately.
Regarding the current situation, here in Switzerland several of my friends of Ukraine have come with families and I could accommodate and help them, some are from Mariupol, others from Crimea and other occupied regions.
Many of my staff are spread all over the globe sitting in companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc.
I am not sure it is appropriate to mention this here, but I can offer developer services from Ukrainian developers with top level experience for very decent and negotiable rates or fixed prices. I often thought that even LiveCode itself could profit from a much larger group of developers with such experience, and it would not cost all the world. It would boost the product. But -- well -- I am not sure if there is any business case at all.
I also like to mention that the database "Valentina" https://www.valentina-db.com/en/ offering services for LiveCode was developed by a developer of Ukraine in Kherson (a city now almost destroyed) who I personally know. We cooperated locally as I had a team of developers also in Kherson as well.
I have grown to be grey-haired, and I am already a pensioner with reduced activities, but still the contacts to developers are active, and currently around me are lots of Ukrainians eager and competent to work in this sphere. So, let me know through a private message if there is any interest to employ these people or giving them some tasks.
For LiveCode, expect a learning and training time of about a month. We learned other languages in about that time -- of course based on very sold programming knowledge with C/C++ and even low-level tasks. Also, I have some mathematicians and top engineers from Ukraine interested to offer their services.
Thanks, and regards, Golife (Roland)
This reminds me that for 20 years I had a company in Ukraine, and we had over 100 hard core software developers working on large industrial projects, mostly using C/C++, driver development, etc. Some even used LiveCode that I had taught them. They picked it up immediately.
Regarding the current situation, here in Switzerland several of my friends of Ukraine have come with families and I could accommodate and help them, some are from Mariupol, others from Crimea and other occupied regions.
Many of my staff are spread all over the globe sitting in companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc.
I am not sure it is appropriate to mention this here, but I can offer developer services from Ukrainian developers with top level experience for very decent and negotiable rates or fixed prices. I often thought that even LiveCode itself could profit from a much larger group of developers with such experience, and it would not cost all the world. It would boost the product. But -- well -- I am not sure if there is any business case at all.
I also like to mention that the database "Valentina" https://www.valentina-db.com/en/ offering services for LiveCode was developed by a developer of Ukraine in Kherson (a city now almost destroyed) who I personally know. We cooperated locally as I had a team of developers also in Kherson as well.
I have grown to be grey-haired, and I am already a pensioner with reduced activities, but still the contacts to developers are active, and currently around me are lots of Ukrainians eager and competent to work in this sphere. So, let me know through a private message if there is any interest to employ these people or giving them some tasks.
For LiveCode, expect a learning and training time of about a month. We learned other languages in about that time -- of course based on very sold programming knowledge with C/C++ and even low-level tasks. Also, I have some mathematicians and top engineers from Ukraine interested to offer their services.
Thanks, and regards, Golife (Roland)