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Another guest post from our PHB. Obviously he has been reading too much Techcrunch, just discovered icanhascheezburger.com and slacking off during his day job.

This is a story of a start-up built around the nerdiest glasses on earth. If you wonder why and how we’re doing it, how exactly will we make millions of dollars off of it then you’re in luck. We’re planning to document and publish everything on our website and we have just released the first in the series, Converting a pair of glasses into fame and fortune.

ZeroTurnaround is a spin-off of Webmedia (fastest growing software development company in the Baltic States since 2000). Before JRebel (our flagship product) we worked in the R&D team of Webmedia. Then came JRebel, JSPWeaver, ZeroTurnaround and now we’ve spinned off and are at a new office.

A spin-off is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one, such as television series based on a pre-existing one, or a new company formed from a university research group or business incubator.

Moving is work, getting stuff into boxes, moving the boxes and getting the stuff out of the boxes. We were able to add a fun factor to the process. The evening before the move our team was having beers at a local bar and one thing lead to another and the next moment we were at the old office with a knife, pillow and 3 eggs and it was 1AM.

So in the middle of the night, at the office, 3 guys with the mentioned equipment and a plan! The plan was simple. Webmedia CEO’s name is Eagle (at least in the Estonian language) and what if we prep his office for a proper leaving. Stage it as birdies leaving the nest, feathers, egg-shells. Awesome plan from just 4 beers!

Pictures follow.

• The sign says ZeroTurnaround guys have left the nest. Thanks!
• Yeah, all the feathers come from a single pillow
• Yes, I’m missing a pillow
• Yes, we had to clean it up (well, just me, because everybody else supposedly had more important tasks at hand).

Looking at the numbers I can say that it is working but wearing the extra nose is not as easy as it seems.

1st of April is a great day, lots of cool hoaxes all day around. We at ZeroTurnaround have contributed with DNArebel – Improve Yourself Today and JavaRebel Goes AI. Usually everything ends once the day is over.

This year’s dow.ngra.de hoax, Microsoft acquires ZeroTurnaround for undisclosed amount has amused us even months later. Couple of weeks ago we spotted a Chinese article that listed all the acquisitions of Microsoft during the past year. And we made the list!

Today we found the news from a business systems news & analysis page, FSN.

FSN provides finance professionals around the globe with independent news, vital analysis and deep insight about key developments in the world of business and accounting systems. We debunk the technical jargon of the IT world and present leading-edge issues in a way that is accessible and relevant to business decision makers.

We’re in the article Shifting Sands (EDIT: link is dead now) with players like Salesforce, Digita, Google, Oracle, Microsoft and HP :)

A fact taken from a blog post on 1st of April, not confirmed from either parties and presented in an article with vital analysis and deep insight.

Of course there is an easy fix. Either Microsoft acquires the Java productivity tooling company ZeroTurnaround or FSN notices a referrer from this blog and makes changes. I’ll keep you posted on who wins the race.

A week ago I worked on a dashboard project. One of the dashboard views showed the SLOC and the size of the VCS of the company. Yesterday I overheard the pointy haired boss explaining the dashboard to the HR lady.

PHB: Here we have the lines of code in the repository and the total size of the repository shown through time in gigabytes.

HR lady had a puzzled look at the graphs and the numbers.

HR: How much more of those can we fit in the repository?