Minsk, Belarus -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/10/2008 -- The December edition of SoftJournal.ru focuses on modern platforms for software development. The "Technologies and Frameworks" rubrics pays attention to the following topics:

PHP... Why exactly it? (http://softjournal.ru/php-pochemu-imenno-on-php-why-exactly-it.html) – When choosing a language for web development, you should clearly define the requirements. If your purpose is to create a high-quality easily modified web portal, you may use PHP. The support of over 20 databases, compatibility with the majority of operating systems and wide functionality are only several of the benefits of this programming language.
What is the future of ABAP? (http://softjournal.ru/est-li-buduschee-u-abap-what-is-the-future-of-abap.html) – The answer to this question can be given only over time. There have been a lot of disputes about the replacement of ABAP by the more modern Java language. The article helps to understand the advantages and disadvantages of ABAP, and outlines its perspectives compared to Java within development on SAP/R3 and SAP NetWeaver platforms.

The following articles may also draw your attention:

VMware and SAP form a global technology partnership (http://softjournal.ru/kompanii-vmware-i-sap-sozdayut-globalnoe-tehnologicheskoe-partnerstvo-vmware-and-sap-form-a-global-technology-partnership.html) – Recently the companies have reached an agreement which solves the problem of technical support for users running VMware ESX Server and SAP solutions. Now companies jointly support their software solutions.
The Series of SEO Tests ( http://softjournal.ru/seo-test-7-seo-test-7.html ) – The regular SEO-test has appeared on journal's pages. It covers such issues as the extension of the domain name, link impact on the ranking, search engines popularity in different countries and many others.

About SoftJournal.ru
SoftJournal.ru (http://www.softjournal.ru) is an online magazine created for practicing designers, business-analysts, programmers, software quality control specialists and IT companies' managers and directors. Article of magazine are devoted most to vital topics IT of branch. One of the co-founders of the online magazine SoftJournal.ru it is company A1QA.Company's team keep a category of journal:" Software Testing ". The magazine leaves in two languages. The subscription to magazine is free-of-charge.

About A1QA
The company A1QA (http://www.a1qa.com) offers a wide range of software quality assurance services, including manual and automated testing. A1QA is the only company in Eastern Europe that specializes exclusively in software testing services. The major clients of the company are foreign and Russian enterprises that deal with software development and have a need for independent quality assurance.

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The International User Experience 2007 Conference will be held from 8 to 10 November in Moscow. It’s the first conference in Russia devoted to electronic technology usability.

Minsk, Belarus -- (ReleaseWire) -- 11/12/2007 -- The International User Experience 2007 Conference will be held from 8 to 10 November in Moscow. It's the first conference in Russia devoted to electronic technology usability. In the Conference take part owners of Internet resources, Internet and mobile application developers, interface designers and testers. The following issues will be in question:

• Government sites and site availability for physically challenged people
• Mobile devices: interface design and technology integration
• Intranet systems development
• Usability methodology
• Specifics of Internet applications development

Four author seminars by foreign experts in the field of usability will be held at the Conference.

We invite those interested in partnership to schedule a meeting with representatives of A1QA company that offers standalone and web application testing services.

About A1QA
A1QA company (http://www.a1qa.com) offers a wide range of software quality assurance services, including manual and automated testing. A1QA is the only company in Eastern Europe that specializes exclusively in software testing services. The major clients of the company are foreign and Russian enterprises that deal with software development and have a need for independent quality assurance.

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Minsk, Belarus -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/05/2007 -- In September SoftJournal.ru as usual provided its readers with interesting articles and new projects devoted to IT related themes.

Of course, a striking event became a new educational project "Check Your SEO Knowledge" (http://www.softjournal.ru/prover-svoi-znaniya-v-seo-check-your-seo-knowledge.html) by SoftJournal.ru - the series of tests dedicated to SEO. Participation in the project will be especially useful for SEO-beginners. By sending the correct answers to the test questions you can get an invitation to the internship at Itransition Software company, which will help you to gain knowledge and experience in the SEO sphere.

"Search Engines provide the maximum of relevant visitors to the owners of the Internet portals that gives more importance to SEO and Internet-promotion activities for the business, and requires high level of professionalism of SEM-specialists", - says Yulia Miheeva, author of the project.

September release attracts attention to the 3rd annual contest IT Marketing Challenge. September, 15 participants registration was over. The next contest stage was a series of interviews. Participants were invited to introduce their task solutions and to answer additional questions asked by the jury. The article "IT Marketing Challenge. Competition starts!" (http://www.softjournal.ru/it-marketing-challenge-sostyazanie-nachalos-it-marketing-challenge-competition-starts.html) informs about the interview itself and about what will be the next stage of the contest.

The article "Software Testing Automation" (http://www.softjournal.ru/avtomatizatsiya-testirovaniya-po-software-testing-automation.html) helps understand the difference between the automated testing and the manual testing, when they should be used, and when - be combined. The most popular software products for testing automation are specified too. In the article "SoftJournal.ru Accepts Articles for Publishing" (http://www.softjournal.ru/softjournalru-prinimaet-stati-dlya-publikatsii-softjournalru-accepts-articles-for-publishing.html) SoftJournal.ru offers you to declare yourself as a specialist in IT sphere, to share experience and to tell about your discoveries and observations.

In the Internship of Internet Marketing Specialists rubric (http://www.softjournal.ru/category/stazhirovka-probation.html) we continue to publish tasks and their best solutions. Tasks devoted to link evaluation and link exchange have been appeared. The rubric Solutions will be interesting to people who work in IT sphere and Modern CRM-solutions. You will learn about the Largest IT-event of the year - 18-th annual international exhibition Softool 2007 - from this rubric too.

About SoftJournal.ru
SoftJournal.ru (http://www.softjournal.ru)is an online magazine created for practicing designers, business-analysts, programmers, software quality control specialists and IT companies' managers and directors. Article of magazine are devoted most to vital topics IT of branch. One of the co-founders of the online magazine SoftJournal.ru it is company A1QA.Company's team keep a category of journal:" Software Testing ". The magazine leaves in two languages. The subscription to magazine is free-of-charge.

About A1QA
The company A1QA (http://www.a1qa.com) offers a wide range of software quality assurance services, including manual and automated testing. A1QA is the only company in Eastern Europe that specializes exclusively in software testing services. The major clients of the company are foreign and Russian enterprises that deal with software development and have a need for independent quality assurance.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Minsk, Belarus -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/27/2007 -- New service has been presented by A1QA - testing web applications and web sites for iPhone. The result of testing will cover not only the main aspects of usability and compatibility with iPhone but recommendations on redesign and development of iPhone compliant web solutions.

Customers can examine their web solution iPhone compliance within the following types:

* Functional testing
* Usability testing
* GUI
* iPhone & multimedia checking
* EDGE vs WiFi
* Media

You can find more information about web-testing for iPhone at Web Application Testing Service page.

About A1QA
The company A1QA (www.a1qa.com) offers a wide range of software quality assurance services, including manual and automated testing. A1QA is the only company in Eastern Europe that specializes exclusively in software testing services. The major clients of the company are foreign and Russian enterprises that deal with software development and have a need for independent quality assurance.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Minsk, Belarus -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/10/2007 -- First edition of the online magazine SoftJournal. ru is released. One of the co-founders of the magazine is A1QA, the software testing company. The new monthly magazine was created for practicing designers, business-analysts, programmers, software quality control specialists and IT companies' managers and directors. The magazine's articles are dedicated to the most relevant IT issues. The first edition of the magazine features:

* IT world news commentaries
* Articles on business-analysis and business-planning
* Articles on software testing methods and tools
* Practical recommendations on software development and software quality assurance, including web-security testing
* Explanation, advice and answers to complicated software development issues
* Reviews of the new versions of software solutions
* Reviews of open source software
* Other useful information

A1QA has a column of its own, "Software Testing". The first edition of the magazine contains articles on the new testing automation tool Selenium, methods of solving problems during the development of applications with modified control elements, and other useful materials.

Another peculiar rubric is "1001 bits of advice on C/C++". The rubric was created for the beginner programmers studying C/C++. J2EE, .NET, Ajax, Ruby are planned to follow.

This is the first project of the kind for A1QA, the company that specializes on quality control and software testing. "The launch of SoftJournal. ru is not only a step forward in the development of the company" - comments Julia Mikheyeva, the Editor. "It is a demonstration of the high qualification of the company's team and the evidence of experience, which allows them to share information of high practical value."

About A1QA

The company A1QA (http://www.a1qa.com) offers a wide range of software quality assurance services, including manual and automated testing. A1QA is the only company in Eastern Europe that specializes exclusively in software testing services. The major clients of the company are foreign and Russian enterprises that deal with software development and have a need for independent quality assurance.

About SoftJournal. ru

The subscribers and readers of the magazine are employees at IT departments of companies and banks, state and commercial organizations. The subscription is free.

The magazine is published in the form of separate subject articles:
1. "SoftJournal" – weekly subject release
2. Special subject appendix – released monthly

You can visit the magazine at http://www.softjournal.ru

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