Applicake is now on a mission to conquer the mobile world! Our Android / iOS division is growing and we’re currently looking for more passionate mobile developers to join our team. Recently, two whiz-bang mobile devs moved into Applicake HQ. Now it’s time to meet them! Karol, Junior iOS Developer and Mateusz (aka “Heniek”) – Junior Android Developer. I asked them to introduce themselves. Here’s what they wrote:

Karol:

In 2010 Steve Jobs introduced the first iPad. The keynote sparked my interest and being an Apple skeptic at the time I read through a few opinions. They were mixed: up until then no tablet enjoyed much success. And yet for some crazy reason I decided to buy an iPod Touch (it’s just like an iPad that you can put in your pocket, right? RIGHT?) A few days passed and I was blown away. My Wi-Fi enabled Nokia was a joke compared to the experience delivered by Apple’s iOS. I felt enlightened. How could I have missed out and not been on the “mobile bandwagon” since the first iPhone’s release in 2007? I don’t know! I decided I would build mobile experiences that people will love. The rest is history.

Mateusz aka “Heniek”:

I don’t even know if I like Android because of Java or I like Java because of Android – the best thing is that now I’m working with both Before I started with Android my work was strictly related to other Java technologies so I decided to found a Java programmers’ association at the Cracow University of Technology, where I am studying Computer Science. In December 2011 I co-organized cracow.mobi - a 2-day long conference about mobile devices programming where I met Bartek, the main Android guru at Applicake, as he was our speaker. You can often find me at cool events and meetings, like hackrk, sckrk, javacamps and more. I am also a retired Arch Linux contributor. Besides programming I play (and watch) football, I like trains and trams. Every day I read few random pages from Wikipedia so I always have something interesting to say.

Ok, let’s say it bluntly, it’s high time we had a new website.

That’s what we said a few months ago. Then we spent some time looking for the best way to showcase WHO we are, WHAT we do and HOW we do it and  and brainstorming different ideas for the design (see the Flickr set from the design process). But as it was a side project and we were doing many other creative things, it took us way too much time to execute it.

But shortly before New Year’s Eve we made it our top priority and for the last month we implemented a project management model for the task. We set up the team as well as some deadlines and a few days ago - the NEW Applicake website went live!

We will keep changing it and optimizing. So, go to applicake.com now and tell us what you think!

And last BUT not least, big ups to the team:

Socha for great designs, Rodzyn (the Project Manager), Benek, Basia, Jacek and Mateusz  for putting the site online and Agata, Mariusz and Ela for support and supervision. It was a great pleasure working with you all!

Good grief it’s been a bit quiet in here recently. BUT there’s a very good reason for that: we were working hard on the Applicake new website. It’s a far cry from the old one AND it reflects WAY better awesome stuff we’re doing . There’s a sneak peak below. And the website will be online very soon!