Ottows blog

Offshore has for long been a buzzword on software development. Im currently on my second assignment with offshoring. in my first job working with offshore development was with Creuna and their department in Kharkov, Ukraine.

They have around 30 highly skilled developers and test engineers in the office there via the company Ciklum. I worked for almost 2 years together with Ukrainian developers from a distance in Aarhus, Denmark before i eventually moved to Ukraine to work th

For 2 months we have been collaborating with the team in Bangalore. I have been assigned 2 developers, Umesh and Arun and they have a background as .NET developers.

Since we will be handling solutions from Valtech A/S primarily it has been necessary for the developers to study CMS since most projects in this company is build on CMS. The first CMS they have studied is SiteCore. It has been challenging to get proper education for them in India, the price was simply to high so

Last friday we decided to go and see the movie The Adventures of Tintin in 3D in the movie theater in Brunns galleri - CinemaxX. It has become quite a costly affair to go to the movies i think. We had to pay 110 DKK each - including the fashionable 3D glasses.

Anyway we went there Lene and I with my sister Marie and our friend from back ind the days Bo.

The movie was quite average and the 3D experience too i guess - it seems like the technology is not quite there ye

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Today is the day that all children in denmark has been waiting for all year - Christmas day.

All day is one long wait for the children for the adults spend all day preparing for the evening to come.

Christmas presents under the christmas tree

There are many things to prepare. The gifts have been bougth and it is time to wrap the

When you go to Kharkov or kharkiv to watch the Euro 2012 finals next summer you will have to decide where to stay.

There are a number of different hotels in the city but the standard is not that great except for Chichikov Hotel, Af: Administrator | Tags: , Football, Kharkov, Ukraine, soccer, Euro 2012, Lviv | Skriv kommentar |

The draw for the european cup finals placed Denmark in a tough group. Facing Holland, Germany and Portugal it could not get worse and furthermore all the events will take place in Ukraine.

The danish supporters will have to go the Kharkov and Lviv if they want to see their heroes in action an that can turn out to be a great challenge. Most people in Ukraine does not speak englis

Today we started daily meetings on video, me and the team in Bangalore, India. The team so far in India is Umesh(Lead) and Arun.

They had been given webcams so that we could have online meetings on Skype. Here i ran into a problem. Without some pro license I was not able to make a video conference call to more than 1 person, so since i needed to speak to both Umesh and Arun we needed a new strategi.