Skilldrive

Skilldrive is an independent software company focusing on enterprise architecture and project management provided by group of software architects, engineers and IT professionals who gain many years of professional experiences.

We are able to combine all Microsoft, Google and Oracle technologies together to provide our clients with the cheapest and the best solutions. Skilldrive’s employees have been using .NET and Java technologies ever since they were introduced to the market and that is why we are able to use them and mentor them to IT community and companies.

Our industry expertise includes areas as banking, e-learning, security & crime, telecommunication, media and television.

Skilldrive is a Microsoft Certified Partner

We are very proud to announce we have become Microsoft Certified Partner on 12th March 2008 when Skilldrive is providing state-of-the-art services to our clients using Microsoft products and technologies integrated with other platforms. This certification stimulates us to speed up our growth and professional services provided to clients on certified and standard-based level. This is primary important for us when working with government and security services giving them the assurance about our competencies.

IntelliJ IDEA Session

We’re inviting you to Prague’s Java session dedicated to technical session presenting today’s the best Java professional environment IntelliJ IDEA. This session will be hold on 3rd March 2008 in Prague’s hotel Josef. More about this session can be found on website www.gug.cz.

Starting Google events

On 5th November we launched the website www.gug.cz that should be used as event management system to organize local Google presentations and sessions. As starting point we have organized the first event around Google Maps that was presented from programmer's perspective by Google Maps Product manager Jaroslav Bengl.

We invite you to see this presentation recording and to build great new websites using Google Maps service.

Google tasted good

Prague Food festival is known event where you can enjoy many tasteful foods served by reputable restaurants and hotels.
This year you could taste Google technologies too as Google was showing its products and answering visitors to their questions. Skilldrive is proud that we were chosen to help Google to provide technical presentations and to help Google users to get first experience with many new applications and products. More pictures are at Picasa website.

Skilldrive cooperates with JetBrains

On August 7th Skilldrive is proud to announce starting cooperating with leading software vendor JetBrains known by its prestigious products as ReSharper and DotTrace. JetBrain clients can contact us when interested in training or presentation of those products that are essential to all professional .NET developers.

ISO 9001:2000

On March 25th we have started to implement ISO 9001:2000 into our organization.
We believe that software development requires the highest quality that can be achieved and audited by our clients using modern standards and methodologies. We believe that ISO 9001:2000 is proven international standard that can help us to improve ourselves not only in technical areas but even in our communication, internal processes and finally producing state-of-art software that can be improved on predictable level.
With Skilldrive you'll get not only internationally recognized experts but also certified quality.

Skilldrive supports Lucene

Skilldrive members support Lucene engine in our work and projects,we're running www.lucene.cz or some specific customer's solutions (real estate monitoring and indexing, indexing of goverment's websites etc.). Lucene is great and we love it when working with crawling & indexing applications or some specific challenging technical usage when working with large bunch of  unstructured data. Do you want to start your own google box for free? Just look at Lucene!

Zviratka.cz

We're animal lovers and that is why we want to show how beautiful animals are. We would like to give you a chance to show your animal soulmates and we would like to know how do you like our design of zviratka.cz. Please, contact us if you would have any ideas or proposals.

Skilldrive supports Phalanger engine

Tomas Petricek is a lead developer of the Phalanger project. ASP.NET platform is very strong but what is it missing is a huge pool of applications and components as PHP community provides. By using of Phalanger you can have all advantages of .NET platform and reuse current PHP code integrated into .NET environment.
If you are interested in recompiling your PHP applications into .NET or improving performance of your existing ones, contact us and we can provide you with professional consulting and supporting services for Phalanger.

.NET in Samples

This ebook is a cookbook about using different .NET technologies covering many topics with code samples. There should be a created a code repository with samples and explanations related to general programming areas (as security, cryptography), design patterns and many code snippets and samples.

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