Global Android Dev Camp por Melania González
Posted on February 21st, 2012 by Sergio
¡Tenemos un ganador en Casa!
Es un honor presentarles a nuestro compañero Rodolfo Oviedo, miembro del equipo ganador del Android Dev Camp Costa Rica. Rodolfo es egresado del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, realizó su práctica Profesional en República Checa y ahora se encuentra trabajando con nosotros en Bosz Digital como Software Engineer en el Equipo de CQ5. Él junto con sus compañeros de equipo, Luis Alfonso Aguilar y Cesar Ramirez, quienes son tambén grandes programadores, tomaron el reto del Android Dev Camp y finalizaron como los ganadores del primer premio del concurso. El premio consta de $900 en cursos de Cenfotec y tarjetas de itunes por $50 cada una.
Galería de la aplicación ganadora:
¿Que es el Android Dev Camp?
Esta actividad se realiza a nivel Global, este año se inscribieron alrededor de 50 grupos diferentes. Se trata de un campamento de 2 días en donde el reto es realizar una aplicación funcional. Todos los países la realizan de forma simultanea y comparten charlas y broadcasts entre sí. La mayoría de los concursantes tienen conocimientos nulos o muy básicos sobre programación en Android y la intención presisamente es que aprendan lo básico durante estos dos días y logren completar una aplicación sencilla. El grupo de Costa Rica tubo la oportunidad de compartir con el Equipo de Bruselas vía Broadcast, además de ver algunas exposiciones de Argentina, Brazil, Alemania y Japón.
En la actividad participaron de jurados 3 personas, Gerardo Cruz (Compañero de Bosz Digital), Jesus Torres y Trevor Croft.
Impresiones
¿Rodolfo, cuales fueron tus impresiones sobre la actividad?
“Me gustó mucho el hecho de poder aprender una nueva tecnología, conocer gente nueva y compartir con los compañeros. La organización del evento fue muy buena y se le sacó el mayor provecho.”
¿Cuales fueron los mayores retos?
“Como la mayoría de los participantes teníamos un conocimiento tan básico, el mayor reto fue concretar una aplicación y llegar a tener un resultado decente y presentable.”
¿Cual fue la ventaja que los llevó al gane?
“Muchas de las aplicaciones, aunque tenían ideas muy buenas, no llegaron a concretarse al 100% debido al tiempo y lo complicadas que eran, nosotros tuvimos la suerte de plantearnos una idea sencilla que logramos concretar.”
Algunas de las impresiones de los jurados:
“Escogimos esta aplicación porque fue una de las que tenía el mejor progreso”
“Complió con todas las reglas establecidas”
“Tenía una interfaz agradable”
Bosz Digital se hace presente
La empresa Bosz Digital patrocinó la actividad con 4 exposiciones de alta calidad. Para nosotros es un honor participar y apoyar este tipo de actividades para fomentar nuevos talentos. Si gustan darle un vistazo a las exposiciones pueden ver los archivos PDF en la siguiente dirección: http://www.boszdigital.com/Android/AndroidDevCamp/ , o pueden también ver los Videos de las exposiciones a continuación. Si tienen alguna duda sobre las charlas pueden escribirnos a la dirección android@boszdigital.com . También pueden disfrutar del resto de las charlas en la siguiente dirección: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/crdevcamp12
Herramientas de Desarrollo para Android
por Santiago Rodríguez
Fundamentos y mejores prácticas de programación para Android
por Mario Hernández
Usabilidad para móbiles y diferencia entre otros dispositivos 1/2
por Melania González
Usabilidad para móbiles y diferencia entre otros dispositivos 2/2
Diseño de Aplicaciones para Android
por Ivan Alarcón
Agradecimientos
Queremos agradecer al organizador de la actividad, Franklin Garcia, quién nos dio la oportunidad de participar como expositores. Felicitarlo por el gran esfuerzo que conlleva la actividad y los grandes resultados.
Gracias también a los expositores y al esfuerzo brindado para que la calidad de las exposiciones fuera la mejor.
¡Y muchas Felicidades a todos los participantes y en especial a los ganadores!
Si quieren ver más información del Android Dev Camp pueden visitar el sitio oficial o el Circulo de Google+
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QA Connect is a reality! by Guido Bolaños
Posted on January 18th, 2012 by liz
Like many of us, I worked myself through college at a restaurant.
I was very lucky and basically opened the restaurant to the public, with the chef/owner and a small crew over ten years ago; now is one of the best in the city! And I had the chance to be part of it from the beginning.
At first, we did not know what to expect or even what to do… we just wanted to serve good food at an upscale yet cool place with a great vibe.
I was a bartender/waiter and my job was to make sure that the customer was happy and got what he/she ordered. As we grew… more customers came, we got great reviews on newspapers, Gourmet and Bon Appétit magazines. We were on demand! So now we needed a food runner, busboys and more waiters.
Juana was our food runner and she checked the tickets we sent to the kitchen; with the food assigned by seat number she took the food to the table. If there was something not clear or wrong, then she would let us know, so we could make sure it was all good for our customers.
Sounds familiar?
Our digital production company seems very much like Indika; and the QA department, like Juana and myself, working together to make sure our customers get exactly what they want.
We deliver the goods. Everything goes through us before it goes to your table, and we make sure your order is right!
QA Connect Process from QA Connect on Vimeo.
When I started at BOSZ almost 2 years ago, it was only 10 of us at QA. Processes were defined and we began to work. Thinking about all the valuable information the QA department could gather from the fact that everything must go through us, we thought of an excel sheet. Who did what and when, who reviewed and was it approved or not. That’s how it all started.
In the beginning this was tricky yet possible; but when the team started to grow to a current number of 35… the excel sheet was just not good enough.
That is how the idea of QA Connect was born.
A centralized database that would allow direct and real time access to metrics such as:
- Approval rate by team and/or developer
- Reject rate
- Does not meet
- Workload on a specific period of time.
- Graphics and tables
- A blog
- A repository
And so a group of us began working on this idea. Didier, Wexford, Vivi and Diego put great amounts time, creativity and experience to make this happen. And they did!
After six months here it is! Our very own, home made – fresh from the oven recipe for metric managing and overall performance.
QA Connect is a reality!
QA Connect from QA Connect on Vimeo.
With a Does-Not-Meet rate of less than a monthly 1%, 35 Analyst all over the company working on different teams and a custom made QA tool to process all the info we generate; I could not be more proud of the people I work with.
I think every manager thinks they have the best team… but really I DO HAVE THE BEST TEAM!
I cannot sign off before thanking once again Didier, Wexford, Diego, Vivi and everybody else that has helped us through this process for their time, great attitude and disposition, creativity and plain awesomeness!!!
TOTAL ROCKSTARS!!!
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DIGITAS: uno de los mejores lugares para trabajar!
Posted on November 23rd, 2011 by Jair
Por José Coto
La empresa DIGITAS, uno de nuestros principales partners fue seleccionada por la revista Advertising Age como uno de los mejores lugares para trabajar en los Estados Unidos.
La publicación se dio en Agosto 2011 y en ella se destacan la cultura colaborativa, la curiosidad intelectual y los beneficios, como aspectos fundamentales que confieren a DIGITAS el tercer lugar en el ranking de mejores lugares para trabajar.
Junto con DIGITAS, en BoszDigital hemos construido un equipo multidisciplinario en las áreas de Digital Studio y Tecnología. Hemos sabido valorar los aportes de cada parte y tomar lo mejor de cada cultura. Por eso, compartimos el éxito de DIGITAS y nos sentimos parte de él. Somos una extensión de sus equipos.
En BoszDigital somos latinos y nos enorgullecemos por las particularidades que nuestras raíces nos heredan. Asimismo, entendemos que el nuestro es un contexto global y trabajamos con Estados Unidos, Europa y Asia. Nos dejamos contagiar por cada uno de nuestros partners y, al igual que DIGITAS, estamos seguros de tener uno de los mejores ambientes de trabajo.
Sigan la noticia en este link:
http://adage.com/article/best-places-to-work/places-work-media-marketing-digitas/229325/
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English Training Department at Bosz!
Posted on October 10th, 2011 by Sergio
Greeting!
We have incredible and informative news from our English Training Department:
We are all very proud to hold our first English Language Training Graduation Luncheon, to be on October 31, from 11AM-12:30PM. Recognition certificates and much more is going to take place on this special day.
The following members of our family at Bosz have been actively participating in our 3-month training program related to the improvement and perfection of the English language that will conclude on Oct. 27:
Carolina Trejos, Zeneida Nunez, Natalia Matamoros, Raquel Jimenez, Guiselle Calero, Adriana Chaves, Laura Brenes, Evelyn Lasso, Jose Antonio Sanchez, Manuel Herrera, Esteban Torner, Gustavo Alvarado, Reyner Sibaja, Eugenio Segura, Maikel Espitia, Gustavo Ramirez, Nicolas Salazar, Michael Marin, Miguel Zuniga, Edison Mora, Pablo Montero, Jonathan Monge, Rolando Quiros, Mariano Dilascio, Alexander Caravaca, David Madrigal and Santiago Rodriguez.
Congratulations!
Our October´s calendar looks hot and even hotter! Why? Because, good news still are coming their way. Bosz in accordance with our Training and Development Department is very proud also to announce the upcoming plans of the TOEIC Examination that is intended to take place by December 9.
The best news is not only that this most waited upon examination is just around the corner, but also that 80 or our friends and co-workers have reached a High Advanced English Level, and will be invited to participate in this event.
We have to admit that at Bosz we are HOT and we know how to “ROCK & ROLL”!!
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Welcome Home!!
Posted on October 10th, 2011 by Sergio
In the past weeks we had the joy to welcome 2 great new teams to the Bosz Family, we are talking about the new Moxie team and the new CMS RZF line up.
CMS RZF
Razorfish has recently added a new team to its growing school of fish. The Razorfish CQ5 Team joined BOSZ at Tribu site this past Monday September 19th; leading them in this new CMS practice is Daniel Solis their PSE and Jorge Vega as their Project manager. This team will have the opportunity to work with the up and coming Adobe CQ5 Web Content Management (WCM) a platform for delivering engaging, multi-channel customer experiences to drive online business.
The team will be developing and working with Razorfish onshore counterparts on new and interesting projects, that are soon the be started. We are excited to have them as part of our team and wish them a very good kick-off. Welcome to the family!
Moxie Team:
Moxie is a new Vivaki company added to our partnership that started in September 14th 2011 with 8 different personalities that included 5 Flash Designers, 1 Web Developer, 1 QA Analyst and 1 Production Manager. Their business transition started in September 19th, by having their clients coming down to Costa Rica and training them. They started in the right direction and transitioned the business in much less time than what was expected by taking real projects on their second week within the business.
During the last 2 weeks they had been hearing great things from their clients, reminding them how to “team work”, with passion and dedication are making their business into a success, at this moment with just one week doing the actual real work, they completed 3 OA campaign banners project and 3 full html email projects.
They would like to thank to all the people that were involved in transitioning their business: Jose Coto,Natalia Sibaja, Cesar Alfaro, Liz Rincon, Melania Madriz, Sergio Sanchez, Maria Fernanda Vega, Andrey Espinoza, Guido Bolaños, Gabriel Alfaro, Mario Leon, Yohan Hidalgo, Esteban Castro, Santiago Oller and Rodrigo Alvarado, THANKS!
GUYS & GALS This is your home!
You really shine!
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Learning and Development Team: This is what you get when you mess with the Bosz!
Posted on August 31st, 2011 by Sergio
As part of the commitment we have with the development and continuous growth of our employees, the learning and Development team has been coordinating certified trainings on, HTML5, CSS3 and Java Script. The CSS3 phase started back in July and it has just ended. This is what the participants have to say about the training experience:
Laurens Ortiz – Presentation Layer Developer.
“First of all I want to thank the company (Bosz Digital) by initiative and the opportunity afforded by allowing me to receive such training, it was actually a valuable opportunity.
The training experience was very enriching and has allowed a professional growth. Also developed by the instructor in a very appropriate way to cover all the important issues and gave us all the knowledge needed. As matter of fact, the whole training was just POSITIVE!”
Khalil Sadi – Web Developer
“This training was awesome. It went straight to the crux of the most functional and useful properties that can be handled at the moment by modern browsers. Including mobile devices”
Gabriel Esquivel – Creative Engineer
“The CCS3 training was great, I learned a lot of practical stuff. I really liked the responsive design part and all the rapid development tips”
And there is more…
A Huge Hurray!
To all the participants in the English Language Training Program at Boszdigital
July-October of 2011
Some of the topics that we cover include individual and group training, assessment for the TOEIC certificate, and a diversity of other topics related to cultivating skills in general. Our entire program dedicates it´s time to assessing collaborators of Boszdigital who are in a transitional stage to becoming perfectly fluent in the English language. Our training sessions include pronunciation, conversation, writing, technical vocabulary and public speaking abilities.
Our existing percentage of bilingual personnel is quite high and we make sure to provide support on a daily basis to our present population.
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Boszdigital Training Center
Posted on July 5th, 2011 by admin
Bosz Digital’s employees are now enjoying the new training center, which opened on May 25, 2010 at the Tribu Building in Santa Ana.
The continuous growth of Bosz Digital’s workforce and the ongoing need for additional trainings led the company to examine different options to set up this new facility. The investment in this space includes the purchase of a dedicated projection and speaker system, desks and computers, as well as all the rewiring and modifications to the floor plan. The modular desk structures offer flexible seating arrangements and allow the space to change configuration to best suit particular training needs.
“ Technology is rapidly changing and evolving. ” said Bosz Digital’s Chief Executive Officer Jose Coto. “Our commitment to our business partners implies not only keeping ourselves updated, but also becoming change agents and driving our organization towards the future of digital communication. Our training center is the platform from which we will achieve these goals.”
The training center was inaugurated with the first in a 3-course training cycle that covers HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript topics. This training was made possible by the joint cooperation between Bosz Digital and Clandestina Creative Hub. “We have a great staff, and look for ways that we can encourage their continuous development in their capabilities” stated Liz Rincon, Bosz Digital’s Learning and Development Manager. “We have been holding trainings on different topics since day 1. Having a space dedicated to hosting learning sessions sets the stage for more interactive workshops and experiences.”
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