Productivity is always a metric worth improving for a growing business. There are a lot of different ways to go about it, both on a personal/individual level (eg. setting daily goals, developing rhythms and rituals of work, etc.) and on a company wide level (adopting standard ways of working, picking ...
Interns seem to be a bit of a craze at the moment. From the popularity of last years hit film The Intern, taking a fun look at the concept of a “senior intern”, through to all the online hullabaloo caused by the recent story of an entire class of interns fired for petitioning for a change in dress...
July 11, 2016
From teaching the basics to learning from the best There are a lot of different ways to grow professionally. At different stages of our development different approaches to growth may be more effective than others. In a company like ours we represent a wide range of talent, from junior developers, des...
June 15, 2016
Did you hear about the Challengathon in America House, Kyiv? We entered a team of 3 Ekreative developers and 1 designer into the 3 day event which took place from the 10th to the 12th of March. What’s a Challengathon? I can hear you asking now, “I’ve heard of a hackathon, but what on earth is ...
March 16, 2016
Hackathon hosts Earlier this month Ekreative was honoured to host the Cherkassy end of a dual location hackathon event organised by our local GDG. The other side of the event was running simultaneously in Columbus, Ohio! The theme for the event was health in technology, a theme close to Ekreative’s...
January 27, 2016
Don’t forget the managers! A few weeks ago we posted an update of some of the conferences our team have been attending recently. From designers to testers and backend through to Android development it seemed like everyone was brushing up on their skillsets, learning something new and networking wit...
November 23, 2015
Keeping up to date Keeping staff up to date with the latest methods, technologies and strategies is an ongoing, continuous process. As well as encouraging them to attend locally hosted lectures, training courses and events relevant to their particular field of expertise, we also send people to a rang...
November 2, 2015
A widespread phenomenon Hackathons are a very widespread, “sporting” competition in the world of developers. It allows us to have some fun in a somewhat extreme and exclusively professional atmosphere. The goal of the event is to make an entire project in one swift movement, from nothing, through...
October 7, 2015
Hackathon time! It’s great when you love what you do! The eagerness of so many programmers to participate in hackathon events only goes to show how much pleasure their work gives them. Ekreative’s September hackathon took place last weekend, allowing our programmers to really flex their creat...
September 24, 2015
Where do we encounter mobile device management? Conversations about mobile device management (mdm) are usually focussed on a corporate setting. The ability to remotely manage mobile devices has a wide range of implementations, from keeping employees from distractions, to cutting down on costs and tim...
September 17, 2015
High profile guest At the end of last week, Ekreative were proud to host a meeting of the Cherkasy Google Developer Group. GDG Cherkasy are a group as inquisitive as they are active, always keen to broaden their horizons and this time was no exception. Google software engineer Rustem Arzymbetov, (cur...
September 11, 2015
A force for good Charities are a powerful force for good in the world today. They facilitate the charitable urge that grips us when we see or hear about tragedy and need and channel it into an effective force for change. That compassionate instinct to reach out and help those we see suffering around ...
September 4, 2015
New activity Over the coming weeks you’ll notice that there’s a lot of new activity here on the ekreative blog. It’s not that I’ve suddenly gone into a frenzy of blog article writing, so what’s going on? Well, we’re keen to share with you posts that not only brighten up your day o...
August 31, 2015
Losing track of time Do you ever have problems with time tracking? Everything’s in place to enable your staff to record the time they spend on different projects, but somehow they keep forgetting?It gets to the end of the working day and staff focus is on completing tasks, meeting deadlines and som...
August 25, 2015
All about community The internet is great for forming communities of like minded people despite the large geographic distances between them. It can also be a fantastic tool though for more localised community building! Ekreative out and about On Sunday Ekreative was delighted to be involved with th...
August 3, 2015
Get your hands on all sorts of great productivity boosting code, courtesy of Ekreative’s in-house hackathon funday! Need more time? Do you find you have bucket loads of great ideas, but they always arrive at just the wrong moment? A great way to improve your productivity, but it requires a bit of ...
June 30, 2015
Come fly with us! Have you been struggling to get effective beta distribution and feedback for your apps since Apple bought Testflight along with it’s owner Burstly back in early 2014? Ekreative developer Vitaliy Pitvalo wasn’t going to sit on his hands and wait for someone else to help solve the...
June 12, 2015
We are happy to announce that guys from Ekreative have implemented a charity project for Hromadske TV. Sergey suggested an idea to create an app for the Ukrainian Hromadske.tv channel. His Ekreative colleagues endorsed this idea. Together they created the app which helps people to access relevant and...
May 28, 2014
Geekhub 2014 graduation! Great results. Photos to follow. Ekreative hired 2 graduates of geekhub already and is planning to hire more. Check out the entire album here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124149572@N07/page1/ ...
April 30, 2014
Ekreative feels very blessed to be able to buy some food to send to Crimea to support our troops who have been cut off by the Russian forces on the peninsula. If you want to join the initiative please PM us for details....
March 7, 2014
Developers at Ekreative created hromadske.tv apps for iOS and Android a couple of months ago. In february the hromadske iOS app has sent 19.000.000 push notifications with up to the minute news updates!! Proud of our guys who help bring truth and freedom in Ukraine!! You can get the apps he...
March 4, 2014
It's the first Ekreative google GDG event in 2014! In two days we travel to London to have the mini hackathon at Google campus there! Ekreative is trying to stay on the edge of innovation. ...
January 18, 2014
Today we celebrated Ekreative's birthday. This picture tells the story: the whole team was there, a competitve round of bowling set the scene, a gorgeous and delicious custom ekreative cake and a good time was had by all. Long may ekreative continue to excell, grow and have good times! ...
November 6, 2013
We are excited to let you know that on 24th of October Igor Pashchenko, a Google employee, visited the Ekreative office. He is a Strategic Partner Manager at Google Ireland Ltd. The Ekreative team got a fantastic chance to talk to the Googler about the AdWords, AdSense and DoubleClick Google technol...
October 24, 2013
We are immensely proud of our Android developers Cheb and Anton, who have, together with 3 other developers from Cherkasy, won the Google Glass hackathon competing with the teams all over Ukraine and Russia! This again proves that Cherkasy thrives to be the IT capital of Ukraine. The winning idea of ...
August 2, 2013