I did a quick video last week to showcase the Wednesdays at the Square where the Welcome, Party! will be tomorrow. All AEA-ers and NOLA BarCampers need be there. RSVP on Upcoming and follow me on Twitter for updates.

Welcome, Party for An Event Apart from Chris Schultz on Vimeo.

Today, finally A List Apart Magazine outlined there vision on new technologies. It’s easier to recommend technologies, when such finally does something to understand and re-group according to modern world tendecies!

Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails by Michael Slater

Getting Started with Ruby on Rails by Dan Benjamin

P.S. Flatsourcing have been working with RubyOnRails since 2005. We are among the first! And it’s the CTO of Flatsourcing, Timur Vafin who initially recommended RubyOnRails as additional and potentially main programming tool for Flatsourcing! A lot of skeptics including me didn’t fully understood the potential and future behind it! I do now for sure already since 2005! Also A List Apart does now too since 2008! Thanks, Timur!

I recently read a brilliant article from the economist. It’s called “Nomads at Last,” and talks about how omnipresent internet connectivity will change your job like cars changed them in the 50s. Of particular interest to us here at Flatsourcing is what this means for labor.

The blackberry and the iPhone have essentially freed the sales force from rigid schedules and desk jobs. Workers become nomads, setting up meetings easily, selling when their is demand and planning when there is not. Chaining people to desks prevents the freedom of work-style and breeds a lack of motivation. We must motivate ourselves to do something great, as motivation is the only path to success. Easier said, if you’re hungry, you’ll find food.

Labor is now based on results and deliverables because management is mobile. After all, we’d all appreciate a more talented individual finishing the same job in less time.

At flatsourcing we provide web development services that free our clients from desks so that they can make more sales and more money. We implement this idea in our own staff as well. We work based on deliverables and satisfaction.

When you were in college, your professor said, “turn in a paper by Friday,” but didn’t care how or where you did it. Tomorrows workforce will be much the same: fidelity to the job not the desk.

Congratulations to the whole Flatsourcing team in Kazan. Two weeks ago they spent the weekend moving tables, chairs computers and furniture to set up in expanded office space in our building in Kazan.

We’ve been growing fast this year, and the new space is going to give us continued capacity to grow. This is an exciting time for everyone involved.

It’s been a great team effort over the last couple months as we’ve integrated new clients and worked through internal growth (like new office space) while while maintaining our high standards for client service. It’s been stressful but exciting.

Congrats to the whole Flatsourcing - RU team on the new offices. RoR development ninjas looking for a great job in Kazan should contact us. We’re hiring.

PS: Check out the cool office layouts that our lead designer Alex did. These are the actual office layouts.