What you see above is a quick server clustering infrastructure schema we put together in a 5mins brainstorming session today. Looks ugly, eh? Here’s why:

Here at Brainient we believe light planning, heavy testing & often review is the way to go. We don’t spend hours on specs, docs or other mumbo-jumbo. We rapidly put together something that we can understand and get it rollin’.

The good thing in the above image is that our sysadmin guru perfectly understands what it says . He’s a genius, we know.
And yeah, the sun on the top right is part of the schema. Can you guess why?

The future’s bright here at Brainient. Here’s some flash news, to see what we’ve been up to:

1. We’re moving to a new office this weekend. Bigger, brighter, closer to downtown Bucharest. We’re finally gonna have space for a gaming room. Pics, soon.
2. Request’s for Brainient’s services are piling up. I’m actually thinking about putting a 90 days waiting list notice on the homepage .
3. We’ve got new colleagues and one more awesome Project Manager, Andrei.
4. Skimbit, one of our biggest projects got techcrunched.
5. Just got an Xbox, a Wii, and we’re waiting for the ping-pong and foosball tables to be delivered.

Oh, and one more thing. We’re hiring more devs. Four of them, to be more precise.

One of the people I admire the most in this world, Steve Jobs, said a very interesting thing some time ago:

“In order to be doing something like this, you have to really, really love what you’re doing. Otherwise it just doesn’t make sense.”

So we decided to twist things a bit in 2008 and only focus on what we love: building innovative, high-scale web applications.
It’s gonna be fun!

Oh, and one more thing: Happy New Year!

I’m currently in charge with almost almost all the projects here at Brainient. My role as a Project Manager is to ensure that our clients are happy with our work, that everything is developed at the highest quality possible and that the deadlines are met.

My work would be extremely difficult if the people I work with wouldn’t be responsible, if they wouldn’t pay attention to details or if they wouldn’t take their attributions seriously.

But you know what? I work with rock stars. I’ve been very fortunate to find people that are passionate about what they do. Of course, I can’t say we’re all exactly as we should be, but we’re working on it. We constantly try to go one step further and make ourselves better persons. And you know what? It works.

It’s all about the people, and we know that.

Quickly integrate equity invested strategic theme areas and focused e-markets. Dynamically whiteboard mission-critical outsourcing for client-centered benefits. Objectively deliver future-proof scenarios whereas cross-media ideas.

Interactively supply clicks-and-mortar networks through interoperable systems. Proactively promote intermandated catalysts for change for resource sucking leadership skills. Synergistically leverage other’s fully researched communities without turnkey internal or “organic” sources.

Synergistically benchmark emerging leadership skills via client-centric meta-services. Proactively disintermediate robust schemas and e-business paradigms. Completely morph extensible action items whereas multimedia based methodologies.

Seamlessly provide access to tactical outsourcing and collaborative products. Appropriately administrate cross-media channels and diverse imperatives. Authoritatively transition B2C materials vis-a-vis innovative information.

Interactively facilitate integrated customer service with wireless applications. Energistically strategize distributed metrics with synergistic resources. Distinctively re-engineer premier metrics before functional ideas.

Uniquely implement economically sound methods of empowerment before professional e-services. Conveniently parallel task cross-unit markets rather than cross functional technology.

There’s more where this came from, but to be honest… it’s all corporate bullshit, actually. Here at Brainient we love simple talk and complex thinking. Why? ‘Cause clients don’t care about technology, strategies & architecture, they just want things done the way they want it. Now, sometimes they aren’t right and that’s when we plug-in the corporate techy mumbo-jumbo, but mostly… we keep it simple!

I’ve been interviewing people for the last 7 days or so. I met a lot of interesting boys and girls… a lot of rookie programmers but also a bunch of awesome developers.

We hired some, and one of them is Cristian… a geeky developer (hey, you don’t mind us calling you a geek, don’t you? . Thought so). He starts today!

Welcome, Cristian… we hope you enjoy working with us.

Meanwhile, we’re preparing to move in the new office!

PS: Pics with Cristian and the new office, coming soon!

We believe our clients are brainiacs. They want to be in control, know what’s happening, share files, add comments and asign tasks…

… so we created the BrainLab, the place where our developers virtually hang around all day to see what they have  to do, what the clients are saying, what features they have to add or what bugs they must fix.

And because there’s no point of reinventing the wheel (or hot water), we used activeCollab as a starting point and added our own touch of geekness.

I read about a new concept today… the “one sheet brochure”. It sums up all the information you want to transmit in a 11×7″ sheet of paper.

Why would anyone need this? Simple: most of the times, the decision makers in companies aren’t the ones that surf the net and look for partners. So why not offer a way to present your services to these guys?

Conclusion: Next week, we’re going to have a one sheet brochure up and running. Stay tuned!

Starting from that observation, we Brainient people decided it was the right moment to use our brains to brainstorm a brainsmashing revamp of our small corporate website AND to launch that blog stuff you are reading now.

Let’s face it : no wow-fx there. Just a pure service, a communication tool between your neurons and ours.

And as you may have heard… it was not enough for this friday… so we launched THIS.

Brainusers is THE tool all of us Geeks have been waiting for since… huh… 1969 ?
And you know what the scariest part is ?
Brainusers.com was not registered by ANYONE before we got it…
You, I don’t know… but me… that scares me