Happy 23rd Birthday C.T.Co!

On May 14 our company turned 23!   23 years of big projects, hard work, growth, and development. What a great milestone! And we decided to celebrate it correspondingly, as we know the recipe for a perfect birthday celebration!    1. Take a glass of a refreshing and tasty non-alcoholic cocktail provided by Party4Rent 2. Combine it with an awesome …

Happy World Design Day 2022!

You might think that these guys are a bit “out of this world”. As a rule, you can easily detect them as they stand out from the crowd – they like to dress brightly and unconventionally and attract attention to themselves with excessive thoughtfulness. But in fact, be sure – behind this deep concentration lies a whole world of crazy …

Happy Easter 2022!

Happy Easter! Dear friends, we’re wishing you a bright, sunny and joyful Easter celebration! Have a great and fun time with your family! P.S. But beware of the Easter bunny! It comes with a lot of tasty calories =)

Happy International Women's Day 2022!

To all the incredible women in the world, shine on, not just today but every single day. Happy International Women’s Day!

Happy New Year 2022!

We sincerely thank everyone – our employees, our clients and our partners for an amazing 2021! We’re wishing you all the best for your goals, plans, and resolutions as we enter 2022! Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas 2021!

Christmas is here and the smell of gingerbread cookies and tangerines has spread everywhere. May your holidays be blessed with the love and warmth of family and friends. Merry Christmas!

103rd anniversary of Latvia’s proclamation of independence

On November 18, Latvia is in a festive mood, celebrating the 103rd anniversary of Latvia’s proclamation of independence! C.T.Co wishes everyone a peaceful and joyful celebration! Daudz Laimes Dzimšanas Dienā, Latvija!

C.T.Co Strava autumn challenge

These “November things” may be particularly tough – when the daytime is short and the weather whispers you to stay in bed, it may be especially difficult to keep our spirits up and stay focused. But the good news is that we know an effective cure for the autumn blues! Being active (even just a little bit) is proven to …

Happy International Project Management Day 2021!

You can easily distinguish these people in the crowd – as a rule, they have a little more gray hair than their peers and a slightly twitching eye. But do not worry, everything is fine with this person – this is just a project manager who’s project is close to the deadline.  We do not know how many cups of …

Happy Programmers' Day 2021!

We all know these mysterious guys and girls who think in numbers, have the superpower to resolve all kinds of puzzles and… probably experience some difficulties in explaining what exactly he or she does as a programmer to ordinary people. These unusual creatures are also known as Software Developers.   Today at C.T.Co we are celebrating the hard work and …

Happy Testers' Day 2021

Today at C.T.Co we celebrate our precious Test Engineers!   Thank you for your hard work and thank you for making our software products great and bug-free! You are doing fantastic work that we truly appreciate! Happy Testers’ Day 2021!

C.T.Co Strava challnges (awards ceremony)

A healthy body makes a healthy spirit… and great software products at the end.   This summer was very active not only in terms of a variety of interesting work projects but also sports-wise with our colleagues participating in C.T.Co organized Strava Challenges 2021. Starting from April and until the end of August our colleagues ran, cycled and walked for …

Riga Marathon 2021 (mission complete)

Running a marathon is not about the marathon. It’s about discipline, courage and faith. We are very proud of our employees who challenged themselves and participated in Rimi Riga Marathon this year!   Well done boys and girls!

C.T.Co is ready for Riga Marathon 2021!

Rimi Riga Marathon 2021 numbers received!   Our employees do not change their traditions and always make sure they are in good shape both professionally and… physically! This year strong and resilient C.T.Co athletes will participate in Rimi Riga Marathon on 10km and 21km distances!  Wishing them best of luck and see you on a distance!

Roadgames for C.T.Co employees

Hey-hey! Do you already know how you’re going to spend this weekend? Because we do.   Our employees, desperate for some fun and adventures will participate in the fantastic event provided by Roadgames already this weekend! Fasten your seatbelts, as we are a few days away from a new and exciting adventure! Roadgames is a location-based quest game, that demands …

Happy Summer Solstice 2021!

We wish you a great Midsummer’s Night celebration! Have fun and enjoy the great weather!

COVID-19 Vaccination at C.T.Co

Being a responsible employer means to care about people and their health. Last Friday (28.05.2021) another round of vaccination against COVID-19 took place in our office. All those who wanted to get vaccinated against COVID-19 were able to do so with no rush or long queues. So far, around 160 people got their first jab in our office and several …

Happy 22th Birthday C.T.Co!

Today C.T.Co celebrates its 22nd birthday! C.T.Co was founded on May 14, 22 years ago and during this time many things have changed. Day by day our company has developed and gradually expanded, adapting to the changes on the market, introducing new technologies and methodologies to ensure the best quality services to our customers. Success of the company would not …

Happy International Design Day 2021!

World Design Day (or International Design Day) is an opportunity to recognise the value of design and its capacity for effect change. On this day, designers are challenged to reflect deeply on the well-being of people within their local environments, and to find innovative solutions to local needs by using design as a vehicle to honour diversity and transcend borders. …

Happy Secretary's Day 2021!

We would like to congratulate our diligent and hard working Office Management department representatives with Administrative Professionals Day (also known as Secretary’s Day). We think this is a great occasion to once again acknowledge their input into the success of the company.   Their work is really important and creates sense of order and stability which is really important during …

Happy Easter 2021!

Happy Easter to you and your families! Let your code be without bugs, Test cases – cover all the features Customers are satisfied, Teams – happy to be self-organized and cross-functional! Stay happy and healthy!

Happy International Women's Day 2021!

Happy International Women’s Day!   Dear Ladies, You make our life worth living. Happy Women’s Day to all lovely Women!

WE ARE 600!

Today (January 11th) C.T.Co reached another historical milestone! Our friendly family have grown up in numbers and now we are 600! Congratulations to us all!   Also special congratulations to Lorens Vernickis who officially became our 600th employee!

Happy New Year 2021!

Wishing you a Very Magical Year full of positive moments, happy smiles and wonderful surprises. Keep in mind that every new year is another 365-day-long journey. Enjoy the ride and make the most of it! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!

Merry Christmas 2020!

It is the time of the year when you can throw all the stress and problems away and truly enjoy this magnificent time of the year! Let’s keep only positive memories from !   Merry Christmas to the most awesome employees in the industry and we hope everyone will have a safe and relaxing holiday season.

Advent decorations in the office (DEC-2020)

Ho, ho, ho! ⠀ Christmas is just around the corner! Did you light the first candle at the Advent wreath yesterday? ⠀ We at C.T.Co already feel that Christmas spirit indeed! ⠀ Have a great snowy week

Happy birthday Latvia!

Happy birthday Latvia!

Happy Programmers' Day 2020!

Last Saturday (12.09.2020) was 256th day of the year which is also recognised as a Programmer’s Day! Congratulations to all Programmers, Software Developers, Architects and those who love to code!

Happy Testers’ Day 2020

Today – on September 9 – Test Engineers from all over the world are celebrating – Tester’s day! C.T.Co would like to congratulate all people who test applications, who truly want to make those applications better, who are making our life a little bit more comfortable every day and wish them all the best! According to the legend on September …

Happy Summer Solstice 2020!

Wishing you a great summer season on the longest day of the year. Happy Summer Solstice!

C.T.Co 21st birthday

Today (14.05.2020) C.T.Co is celebrating its 21st birthday! This year is special for C.T.Co because the threshold of 500 employees was reached in the very beginning of the year (in January). We still feel like there is a long journey ahead of us and we will try to continue to develop our culture, professionalism and become even better in everything we do. Big …

Happy Easter 2020!

Happy Easter to you and your family!

WE ARE 500!

The year has started pretty good for our company! We welcomed our 500th colleague into our family.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2020!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you and your families!

Happy Independence Day 2019!

Happy Independence Day 2019!

International Project Management Day 2019

Happy International Project Management Day 2019! Continuing the tradition of celebrating professional holidays we greet all project managers and all those who are involved in managing one or even several projects! Worldwide International Project Management Day is celebrated every year on the first Thursday of November. This year, the Project Management Day is celebrated today on November 7th. The International …

C.T.Co internal Docker workshops

Recently we hosted 7 workshops on Docker. The internal survey on DevOps technologies showed that Docker had most interest. Workshops usually are 3-4 hours long learn and practice sessions where experienced colleagues share their knowledge with others. This format is a great opportunity to learn and get practical experience with various tools and technologies that could help employees in their …

Happy International Programmers' Day 2019!

Have a great Friday!

Happy Test Engeneers' Day 2019!

No BUGS allowed!

Ice Cream Day in the office!

When it is Ice Cream Day in the office! 

System Administrator’s and Tech Support Appreciation Day 2019!

Today is July 26th, 2019 and it is the last Friday of this months which means that the great holiday is here – System Administrator’s and Tech Support Appreciation Day 2019! We all wish to our IT Infrastructure team that nobody would call you hundreds of times without remembering 10 minutes rule, that all users treat their passwords like their …

Happy Midsummer holidays!

Happy Midsummer holidays to you and your families!

Software Architecture Meetup (04.06.2019)

Hello Friends! Some of you may know that not a single software development project can exist without a bigger vision. Software Architecture provides that vision and here at C.T.Co we really care about it. That is why we would like to create a community that provides opportunity to share the knowledge about technologies and Software Architecture. We are happy to …

C.T.Co 20th birthday!

Today our beloved C.T.Co is celebrating its 20th birthday!  Exactly 20 years ago our company was registered here in Latvia and since then it was a continuous journey from one project team (which consisted from just a few people) until the largest and “bestest”? IT company in Latvia with 460 employees. We still feel like there is a long journey ahead …

Happy Restoration of Independence Day! 

Happy Restoration of Independence Day!  Let the peace, prosperity, and growth be with you.

C.T.Co donation to Children Clinical University Hospital

In the end of 2018 C.T.Co employees made a choice to sacrifice our annual Christmas party budget to make a donation to Children Clinical University Hospital (Bērnu klīniskā universitātes slimnīca). C.T.Co Management added to this contribution so that there would be an opportunity to provide vital equipment to the hospital. Total sum of the donation was 74923 EUR. In cooperation …

C.T.Co @ FrontCon 2019

The main event of the last week was FrontCon conference which was sponsored by C.T.Co. This conference is one of few events that is fully dedicated to front-end concepts and technologies. First day was dedicated to workshops on latest technologies from international speakers. Two following days were dedicated to the talks on various topics from “React Advanced Patterns” to “Painting with Data”. …

C.T.Co @ indoor football cup for IT companies (finals)

Yesterday (17.03.2019) final matches of the Indoor Football Cup for Latvian IT Companies took place in Riga Secondary School Nr. 15 sports hall.  C.T.Co team played 5 games against the toughest teams of the Elite group. Squeezing three ties and two losses in five matches our team managed to get 3 points and take the 6th place out of 16 …

C.T.Co @ indoor football cup for IT companies (group stage)

Yesterday (10.03.2019) group stage matches of the Indoor Football Cup for Latvian IT Companies took place in Riga Secondary School Nr. 15 sports hall. Despite quite nasty injury in the first game our brave guys managed to win three matches out of five. Another two matches ended with tie score. As a result C.T.Co team got out of the group …

International Women's Day 2019

Dear Ladies, we wish you all a happy International Women’s Day! ???Let this day be as beautiful as you are!

C.T.Co will participate in indoor football cup for Latvian IT companies

Today (06.03.2019) in University of Latvia and Microsoft Innovation Center the draw of an Indoor Football Cup for Latvian IT Companies was held with participation of organizers @LatviaITFutsal and team representatives.  We are happy to announce that C.T.Co indoor football team will also participate in this tournament and would like to welcome all football fans to come and support us …

Indoor Football Cup for Latvian IT Companies is ON!

Today (06.03.2019) in University of Latvia and Microsoft Innovation Center the draw of an Indoor Football Cup for Latvian IT Companies was held with participation of organizers @LatviaITFutsal and team representatives.  We are happy to announce that C.T.Co indoor football team will also participate in this tournament and would like to welcome all football fans to come and support us …

Charity Food Fair (11.02.2019)

We continue our great tradition of Food Charity Fairs and would like to share these photos of all the great food prepared by our colleagues! Hope this will inspire to to something similar in your company, as well! This time we managed to gather 888 EUR which will be donated to help Marat (11 years old boy) who has congenital …

World Quality Day 2018

World Quality Day is celebrated every year around the world in November. The day was designed to increase worldwide awareness of the important contribution that quality makes towards both organisational and national growth, and prosperity. World Quality Day takes place every year on the second Thursday of November. In this context we’d like to give a round of applause to …

International Project Management Day 2018

We salute to all Project Managers as well as System and Business Analysts (who usually are strongly involved in management processes in almost every project)! Happy International Project Management Day 2018 and have a great weekend! 

C.T.Co team wins Tapost Testing Hackathon 2018!

On October 2, 2018 our team participated in TAPOST testing hackathon (http://www.tapost.org/tapost-testing-hackathon/) that was happening in Latvian National Library. One of two teams that applied for this Test Automation coding competition from C.T.Co side consisted of two Senior Test Engineers and one Senior Software Developer. Testing hackathon was organized as a competition between small groups of people to demonstrate ability …

RTU Golden Fund awards ceremony

Last week C.T.Co took part in RTU (Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte – RTU) Golden Fund awards ceremony. It was a big honour for our company to be there and to congratulate the best graduates of the university. One more time our company would like to wish to all the RTU Golden Fund graduates to continue their professional development,to stay active and produce …

Ice-Cream day in the office!

When it’s THAT hot outside you have to have an ice cream day in the office!

SysAdmin & TechSupport Day 2018!

Friday, July 27, 2018 is the 19th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, we show our appreciation to our IT Infrastructure department for their hard work, dedication and understanding. Our network is secure, computers are up and running, and printers are jam-free. Why? Because you’ve got an awesome people in a department that keep our business up …

C.T.Co Java School 2018

C.T.Co is organizing Java School in August-September (13.08.2018 – 07.09.2018) this year to gather new IT specialists who want to develop their careers as Java professionals. Requirements for applicants: • Bachelor+ degree in IT will be considered as an advantage; • Basic knowledge of any programming language; • Accuracy and responsibility; • Good communication skills; • Aspiration to learn Java …

Food Charity Fair (11.06.2018)

What can be better when on Monday you come to the office and find that your wonderful colleagues have prepared a perfect breakfast for you? You appreciate it, especially if you didn’t manage to eat properly at home in the morning 😉 Today’s Charity Food Fair will be the fifth event that brings together our volunteering chefs together with those who …

C.T.Co Testing School 2018

We have a great news for all students! The summer is here and so is the first C.T.Co School of this summer. If you are willing to start your career in IT – this is your chance! C.T.Co will organise a Testing school in July-August (10.07.2018-03.08.2018), this year, to gather new IT specialists who want to develop their careers as …

Lattelecom Riga Marathon 2018

Last Sunday Riga was flooded with active and cheerful people who were enjoying the nice weather while running together throughout the most beautiful places of capital of Latvia. Due to the information from organizers of this wonderful event Riga Marathon 2018 welcomed 37645 participants from 78 countries! This year on Latvia’s Centenary Lattelecom Riga Marathon C.T.Co running team consisted of …

C.T.Co turns 19 today!

The company we all love – is turning 19 today! C.T.Co would like to thank all its clients and employees for a great year, which was full of interesting projects and day-to-day challenges. We wish all of you not only to believe that words “work” and “pleasure” are compatible, but to make it your reality. It is a great pleasure …

Happy Administrative Professionals' Day 2018!

C.T.Co is proud to have THE greatest Office Administrator and Office Manager in the whole Universe! Happy Administrative Professionals’ Day 2018 and thanks for bringing a little bit of order and calmness in all the chaos that sometimes takes over the office!

C.T.Co is a largest labor taxpayer in 2017!

C.T.Co received a recognition award from State Revenue Service​ as the largest labor taxpayer in 2017 in Riga and the Riga Planning Region in the middle tax payer category. More information here: goo.gl/yFdSsq

Happy Easter 2018

We hope this Easter holiday will fill your home with peace, joy, and plenty of colorful Easter eggs. Happy Easter!

RTU Career Day 2018

On March 1, 2018 the largest career development fair in Latvia – the Riga Technical University (RTU) Career Day took place. This year the event celebrated its 15th anniversary. In preparation for this event, the RTU Career Canter invited students to focus on professional orientation activities, under the guidance of a counselor, to create or improve their CVs, as well …

Day of Shadows 2018

Each February C.T.Co continues the tradition of participating in a Day of Shadows initiative. On February 14th in the framework of Day of Shadows 2018 that took place all over the country we welcomed 8 students from various Latvian schools who want to develop their future career in IT.  Students had a chance to visit their possible future workplace of their interest …

Charity Food Fair (12.02.2018)

Last year we started a lovely tradition – Food Charity events. Some of our employees were baking, preparing tasty food and selling it to others. The collected money (1700 EUR) was transferred to help 5 children from Ziedot.lv! Everyone just loved the idea and decided to continue this wonderful tradition and invite the employees to participate in it again. Some of …

Happy 2018!

Dear All, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2018! May you and your family feel the magic of this festive time, may your home be warm, and your heart be filled with love, gratitude and joy. Sincerely, C.T.Co Team

Happy Latvian Independence Day!

Happy upcoming holidays everyone!  

Happy World Quality Day!

It’s a World Quality Day today! Stay productive and have a great day!

Charity Food Fair (02.10.2017)

Yesterday another Charity Food Fair event took place in C.T.Co office. Right from the early morning all employees were able to taste delicious food prepared by our Colleagues. During the event we managed to raise 465 EUR! All the money that were earned will be transferred to kids from Ziedot.lv! A very special “thank you” goes to our “chefs” without whom this event …

Endomondo Summer Challenge 2017

Here at C.T.Co we have healthy, fit and active employees who loves challenges. Whether it is a difficult work-related task or a physical challenge. In the beginning of the summer we offered every C.T.Co employee to participate in an Endomondo Summer Challenges (#running, #walking and #cycling). During three Summer months (June, July and August) our C.T.Co athletes ran, cycled and walked for …

RTU Golden Fund (28.09.2017)

On Thursday, September 28, during the ceremony at the Riga Technical University (RTU), the names of the 72 most outstanding graduates of the RTU Gold Fund were announced. As one of the Golden Fund project supporters C.T.Co would like to congratulate all the laureates and wish them rapid career growth and continuous professional development! The RTU Golden Fund was created to …

DevOpsDays Riga 2017

Devopsdays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Topics often include automation, testing, security, and organizational culture. The first devopsdays was held in Ghent, Belgium in 2009. Since then, devopsdays events have multiplied, and if there isn’t one in your city, contact us about organizing one yourself! The …

Have a great Programmers' Day!

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Happy Testers' Day 2017!

Happy Testers’ Day 2017! Keep software free from bugs people!

Happy upcoming Midsummer's Day!

Happy upcoming Midsummer’s Day! All the best to you and your families! See you next week.

HR Meetup @ C.T.Co

Last Thursday (15.06.2017) C.T.Co hosted the HR Meetup #6 meeting, which was held in a format of a Garden Party. We were really glad to welcome all the participants who were curious about the future of HR industry, new trends, tools, process improvements, data visualization and overall employee happiness. This was the first time HR Meetup was held outdoors and …

C.T.Co 18th Birthday

C.T.Co Birthday is on 14-May, but this year we celebrate it on 18-May-2017 because there are 18 years since C.T.Co foundation! Huge thanks to all our employees, who create this positive and friendly atmosphere, that all of us are able to enjoy from day to day! Thanks to your professionalism our company is constantly growing, evolving, improving, getting more new …

Riga Dev Days 2017

This will be the biggest tech conference in Baltic States organized by three user groups in Latvia: Java User Group Latvia, Google Developer Group Riga, Oracle User Group Latvia. All about Java, Web, Oracle and Open Source. As a Premium sponsor C.T.Co will also participate in this event. Feel free to stop by our booth and say “Hi”! WHERE: Forum …

Fruits Day in the Office

We like fruits! Do you? Today we are having fruits day in the office!

UX Riga 2017

UX Riga 2017 conference which took place on February 22-24 (2017) in Radisson Blu Latvija Conference & SPA Hotel was a great success! This conference brought together many designers, developers, project managers, business analysts and other IT specialists with internationally acclaimed speakers who shared their wisdom and ideas about product design and other related topics. C.T.Co was happy to be …

RTU Career Day 2017 (video)

Here’s a short video about RTU Career Day 2017 that took place on March 2 in Kipsala exhibition hall. We would like to thank organizers for a great event and all those students who attended our booth there! It was great! See you next time!

RTU Career Day 2017

A message to all IT students out there! Feel free to step by to C.T.Co booth during annual RTU Career Day, which will take place in Ķīpsala exhibition hall this Tuesday (2 March, 2017) from 10:00 until 16:00.As usual we will be glad to meet students and tell them everything they want to know about career opportunities in C.T.Co as …

Charity Food Fair (24.02.2017)

Today some of our colleagues have prepared their own specialty dishes! Everyone was welcome to taste these homemade things and donate some money to charity. All the money raised during this improvised Charity Food Fair was given to Ziedot.lv. Hope you’re having a great Friday, too!

Shadow Day 2017

Don’t miss the last stage of registration for Shadow Day 2017 which will last until February 5th! We have only one spot left – this is your chance to become a “shadow” of one of our IT project managers! His main duties include planning, organizing and controlling the software development, implementation and maintenance according to the industry standards, quality requirements …

Mobile development focused DevClub.lv meeting

What could be better than starting a year with a knowledge of the full cycle of mobile development – from prototype and animation, to the fully working application? You are right! Nothing could be better than a meetup covering those topics. This month, great mobile oriented speakers will talk about tools and practices that will help you in that journey. …

Happy New Year!

C.T.Co is wishing you good health, happiness, and success in the coming year and always. Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

The warmth and love surrounding Christmas is a joy to be savored with family and friends. It is a time to give and share with one another. Here’s to wishing you the best this season has to offer.

Happy Programmer's Day 2016!

Today is the 256th (hexadecimal 100th, or the 28) day of the year which is recognized as Programmer’s Day! Congratulations to all Programmers, Software Developers, Architects and those who has a holiday-ish mood today!

Happy Test Engineer's Day 2016!

Continuing the tradition of celebrating the professional holidays we would like to congratulate all Test Engineers with Tester’s Day (which is celebrated today on September 9)! Software testing is important for many reasons and we all appreciate the job done by our Test Engineers! Have a great day!

Ice Cream Day

Today we have an ICE CREAM DAY in the office! The ice cream will be delivered directly to employees’ workplaces! Enjoy the last day of the summer and have a great day!

SysAdmin & Tech Support Day 2016!

Friday, July 29, 2016, is the 17th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, we show our appreciation to our IT Infrastructure department for their hard work, dedication and understanding (in most cases). Our network is secure, your computer is up and running, and your printer is jam-free. Why? Because you’ve got an awesome IT Infrastructure department keeping our …

We Are 400!!!

We are glad to inform you that C.T.Co reached another historical milestone! As of this June we have passed 400 employees mark! This fact once again confirms that we are one of the leading company on a local software development market and we chose the right direction of growth. This would not be possible without all of our employees!Thank you …

Have a Great Midsummer's Day!

Have a great Midsummer’s Day celebration everyone!

C.T.Co 17th Birthday!

On May 14th our company had a 17th birthday!!! As May 14th was Saturday, special birthday cake ceremony was held in our office on Monday (May 16th). C.T.Co would like to thank all employees, clients, partners and everyone who is involved within our company for another year spent with us and making our company a great place to work! Happy 17th birthday!

RTU Career Day 2016

Following the examples of the best European universities the administration of Riga Technical University admitted the necessity of organizing Career Days. In 2004 for the first time RTU brought together industry stakeholders and students for an exhibition-type event during which students and company representatives were able to communicate directly in connection with the current events in the industry, possible internship …

Riga Dev Day 2016

Riga Dev Day 2016 took place from 2nd until 4th March (2016) in Citadele Cinema. This conference was one of the largest software development conferences in Baltic States which brought together more than 500 participants and about 40 speakers who are the ultimate specialists in various IT areas. Two first days of the conference were dedicated to presentations which were …

UX Riga 2016

On February 25th UX Riga 2016 conference was held in Radisson Blue Hotel Latvija (Elizabetes street 55), located in the heart of Riga, a ten-minute walk from the Old Town, situated also nearby City Channel and Esplanade park. Unlike other conferences, UX Riga 2016 was designed as a practical one day conference targeted to digital, e-commerce, IT and product development …

Shadow Day 2016

C.T.Co will participate in this project offering a variety of possibilities to “shadow” developers, system analysts, recruiters and many other IT-related professionals. Full list of shadow vacancies is available here: http://goo.gl/uj8mYw Shadow Day 2016 will take place on February 10!

Happy Holidays!

We wish you a blessed and beautiful Christmas and New Year in the circle of family and friends. May the magic of the festive season fill your heart with love, joy and happiness! C.T.Co Team

DevTernity 2015

The importance of software craftsmanship is increasing constantly. Software development made right can unlock a lot of hidden potential in organisations. The goal of DevTernity conference was to help people learn what “right” actually means and how to get there. DevTernity was announced as the biggest software craftsmanship conference in the Baltics and it brought together around 300 attendees and …

C.T.Co @ LU Career Opportunity Day 2015

The University of Latvia (LU) Career Opportunity Day (COD/KID) 2015 exhibition gathered the representatives of Latvia’s most active employers from different areas. COD/KID has already established as an annual tradition that brings together students, pupils and other interested parties who want to learn about career opportunities and prospects for chosen profession. During the COD/KID employers have a great opportunity to …

TAPOST 2015

On October 8, 2015 C.T.Co participated in 16th annual Software Testing Conference organized by Latvian IT Cluster – TAPOST 2015. This year the conference was dedicated to Theory and Practice of Software Testing and the main theme was “Solutions for Efficient Testing”.  One of our the most experienced senior test engineers Vjacheslav L. was giving presentation about one of the hottest topics in …

RTU Golden Fund Ceremony

Yesterday C.T.Co participated in the annual RTU Golden Fund award ceremony. Once again we would like to congratulate all RTU Golden Fund graduates and wish them all the best in pursuing their dreams. This ceremony was very important to us also because one of our current employees Dmitry L. was also receiving the title of RTU Golden Fund graduate and …

C.T.Co @ RTU Faculty Of Computer Science And Information Technology Summer Camp

On Saturday (August 22, 2015) our representatives visited the RTU first-year IT students camp (“Noraujies no Ķēdes”) in Taurene and met the newcomers of the FCSIT faculty. C.T.Co organized various activities for upcoming students, including a discussion and Agile Games which we hope gave an insight to the freshmen into their chosen future profession and an IT field in general. You can …

Ice Cream Day @ C.T.Co

Brace yourself! Ice-cream is coming…Today we have an ice-cream day in C.T.Co and every employee will be able to taste this “cool” treat!

Latcraft (Mobile)

As you all may know yesterday’s Latcraft event was dedicated to mobile technologies. Here in C.T.Co we also love mobile and that is why three out of four speakers were representing our company. Vasiliy P. from C.T.Co was sharing his experiences and even giving free tips about mobile app UI/UX development, tutorials, customer support and everything that is connected with …

Happy Midsummer's Day!

Have a great holidays everybody!!!

Riga Cycling Marathon 2015

On Sunday (May 31, 2015), a high level competition and celebration for all cyclists – Riga Cycling Marathon 2015 – took place in the capital of our small but proud country. Nearly 3,500 cycling enthusiasts from all Latvian regions and surrounding countries gathered in Riga, where largest cycling event took place for 32nd time. This year Krists Neilands became a …

Lattelecom Riga Marathon 2015

Traditionally in May our most active athletes together with people from 69 countries participated in Riga Marathon 2015. The largest number of registered runners was once again for the 5 km distance – 13 387, whereas the medium and long distances have experienced a significant rise in the number of participants – 10 km joined 6570 athletes, half-marathon – 4275, and the classic marathon …

C.T.Co Birthday!

It’s C.T.Co Birthday today!!! Huge thanks to all of those who have been with C.T.Co all these years and helped us to grow and develop our family-like company. C.T.Co is grateful to all the employees for creating this special atmosphere, which makes our company a great place to work! Happy birthday C.T.Co!

RTU Career Day 2015

On April 30 at Kipsala exhibition hall the “RTU Career Day” was held for the 12th time. Organizers of the event and the participants have taken care of interesting program and various possibilities for the students all day long. From 10:00 to 16:00 every student had an opportunity to meet more than 110 representatives of different companies, find out what their requirements for …

C.T.Co @ Tough Race (Stipro Skrējiens) 2015

“The Strong Race” is an international event, which is the first and only mass endurance race of this type in the Eastern Europe taking place since 2010. It includes cross-country running, as well as various elements of agility and strength disciplines. It is a sporting challenge for everyone since the race takes place in unusual surroundings. Surmounting several artificial and …

UX Riga 2015

On February 26th UX Riga 2015 conference was held in Radisson Blue Hotel Latvija, Elizabetes street 55, located in the heart of Riga, a ten-minute walk from the Old Town. Unlike other conferences, UX Riga 2015 was designed as a practical one day conference targeted to digital, e-commerce, IT and product development professionals, designers and developers, as well as local …

C.T.Co @ Riga Dev Day 2015

22nd January 2015 was an important day for Latvian software development community. Riga Dev Day 2015 was one of the biggest IT conference in Latvia bringing together software developers, testing engineers, data base developers and other IT specialists who are involved in software development.The agenda of the conference was carefully organized to include over 25 of only the most relevant …

Happy Holidays To Everyone!

C.T.Co Hackathon #1

That’s how much our developers love to code! Some of them chose to dedicate their last weekend to gather up to the very first C.T.Co hackathon. During the weekend they were working on improvements for internal company’s vacation system. The architecture of the application was redesigned and some new exciting technologies were tried out to implement changes that will improve …

Front-End Conference

DevClub and C.T.Co organized conference took place last week, and now we truly understand how much you love front-end! We were amazed by amount of people came to see and listen our great speakers. Thanks to all, you were remarkable!

Special Prize For Front-End Conference Participants Has Arrived!

Special prize for one lucky participant of DevClub special FRONT-END edition event has arrived. Don’t forget to stop by the C.T.Co stand on the spot for more details. Chek out this link to see if tickets are still available: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/special-edition-front-end-devclub-tickets-13436148883 See you today at 14:00 (Zala street 1, Riga, Latvia)!

Career Week 2014

Last week C.T.Co visited University of Latvia, Riga Technical University and Daugavpils University students with guest lectures about our company and about how to become a successful developer. It was very nice to see and talk to young, motivated people who are truly interested in developing their careers in IT industry.  Also we have good news for Riga Technical Univeristy …

Front-End Conference Announcement

In collaboration with DevClub.lv we would like to announce “Special Edition DevClub event” that will be dedicated to FRONT-END! Check out five amazing speakers who are ready to talk about various topics (check out the poster for more info) dedicated to Front-end software development. Event is planned on October 30th (Thursday) and it will start at 14:00 and will continue until …

TAPOST 2014

Yesterday’s 15th TAPOST conference was a big success! Thanks to all organizers, participants and everyone involved. More than 200 participants, interesting speakers from various countries, awesome opportunities for social networking as well as tasty cake with champagne to celebrate TAPOST’s 15th anniversary made our day! Check out our photos and see you next year!

C.T.Co JavaScript School 2014

C.T.Co is happy to announce our first ever JavaScript School! We invite those who are just starting to learn web-development and are not afraid of new challenges to send your CV to jobs@ctco.lv or write to us here – on facebook.

DevClub #24

DevClub meeting #24 was held last Thursday (18.09.2014) in The Mill meet-up space. First speaker – Janis Koselevs was talking about history of UX, basics of good UX and why UX is important. Ingus Rūķis was going to tell everydoby about insights into development of Draugiem Group projects but unfortunately he could make it to this DevClub due to unexpected …

RTU Golden Fund Ceremony

Yesterday C.T.Co participated in RTU Golden Fund award ceremony. It was a big honor for our company to be there and to congratulate the best graduates of the university. This year ceremony was also special for us because one of our employees was receiving the title of RTU Golden Fund graduate! One more time our company would like to wish …

DevClub #23

At yesterday’s DevClub meeting #23 there was an opportunity to listen to Gusts Linkevičs from .NET group who shared information about his experience with AngularJS library. Also Sergey Stetsourin spoke about one of the books available in DevClub library (Test Driven Development for Embedded C by James W. Grenning). Next was Ilja Nevdahs from AirDog team who shared the details …

C.T.Co Visits KID Summer Exchange

This week C.T.Co visited KID exchange in Vecpiebalga. KID is a youth organization, which since 1996 is engaged in educational and support activities for minority young people including dissemination of information, publishing of information materials, booklets as well as training activities.  This year main theme of the KID’s summer exchange was related to IT field and sounds as following: «Internet as …

C.T.Co Donation To The House Of Elderly People “Liepa”

Following C.T.Co donation traditions yesterday we delivered nine huge bags with donations from C.T.Co employees to the house of elderly people “Liepa”. In their wish list there were all kinds of clothing, interior items and hygiene supplies. Both administration and elderly people themselves appreciated our efforts very much.  If you are willing to make a donation to the house of …

Happy Midsummer’s Night!

 C.T.Co wishes you all a great Midsummer’s Night celebration!

C.T.Co 15th Birthday

Yesterday C.T.Co had a 15th birthday!

Lotus Social Entrepreneurship Event

A message to young people whose interest lays deep in technology and solutions for businesses! You still have a chance to apply (until May 11, 2014) to a Social Entrepreneurship event “Lotus”, which is supported by C.T.Co. It will take place in Riga Business School on May, 17th from 9:00 till 18:00. The conference is for free and the working …

C.T.Co @ The Real World Performance Tour in Riga 2014

Last Friday The Real World Performance Tour was in Riga, Latvia together with Tom Kyte, Graham Wood and Andrew Holdsworth. C.T.Co would like to thank all three speakers and organizers (Latvian Oracle User Group (LVOUG) and Independent Oracle User Group) for such a great event. This was a great opportunity to learn something new about DB performance, best practices for …

C.T.Co @ TSI Career Day 2014

C.T.Co is ready for Transport and Telecommunication Institute Career Days 2014. Everyone interested to know something about our company are welcome tomorrow at Lomonosova Street 1. All students are welcome to come over to C.T.Co stand where our kind and friendly specialists will be glad to tell everything you want to know about C.T.Co. See you tomorrow! P.S. we have …

C.T.Co @ RTU Career Days 2014

On 20 March C.T.Co participated in RTU Career Days (Riga Technical University is one the biggest Latvian universities). It was a great pleasure to meet so much students and companies there! Our recruiters did a great job by presenting our company to students who are interested in career development in IT field.

Happy International Women's Day!

DevClub #19

At yesterday’s DevClub meeting #19 we welcomed two technology evangelists from JetBrains who were talking about less known features of IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio and YouTrack, as well as about modern software development tools and practices ease the burden of code creation and manipulation. During the breaks presenters chose two best questions and those who asked them got 1 ReSharper …

Shadows Day 2014

Today C.T.Co welcomed three enthusiastic school students from different areas of Latvia who came to explore C.T.Co and “shadow” the positions they are interested in. We hope they enjoyed this experience and it will be useful for them in their future education and career development. Also huge thanks to the C.T.Co specialists who agreed to share their knowledge, experience and …

DevClub #18

At yesterday’s DevClub meeting #18 C.T.Co employee Alexey Buzdin talked about comparison of Web and Mobile provoking a hot discussion after the presentation. Next two speakers (Uldis Kirsis and Andris Briedis) shared their insights about two books from Devtraining Library (The Lean Startup by Eric Reis and Test Driven Development for Embedded C by James W. Grenning). Last presentation from …

Welcome Back Everybody

Greetings to all in New 2014! Welcome back at work.

DevClub #17

At yesterday’s DevClub meeting Martin Rand (one of the speakers from DevConFu 2013) talked about “Building a startup – lessons learned”. Maris Tepers had a presentation about developers from the point of view of a recruitment company and Shankar Karuppiah got some insights about his start-up project’s platforms and technologies. Thinking about forthcoming Christmas holidays C.T.Co have taken care about …

C.T.Co @ Java Day 2013

This November a major Baltic IT event took place in Riga. Java Day Riga 2013 – a conference for all those Java and JVM lovers, covering topics from Java in the Clouds to Java in the Garage. In addition there were also discussions about various Java and JVM related topics, like alternative JVM languages – Scala and Groovy, new DBs …

Agile Testing Days 2013

This year’s event took place in Potsdam, Germany, which is in Berlin’s neighborhood. The place turned out to be pretty nice with its parks, smooth climate and a peaceful atmosphere. The conference’s main idea was using the agile methodologies in projects, processes – mainly in testing. Small development sessions were also present. I’d like to mention that a similar conference …

Wildcard Conference 13th of September, Jurmala, Latvia

On 13th of September I visited Wildcard Conference and listened for six presentations. It took place in Jurmala, Baltic Beach Hotel. That’s the third biggest conference by the attendees number that I have visited during my career. It was organized by 3 major Latvian IT communities: Agile Latvia, Latvian Developers Network and Latvian Oracle User Group. There were speakers from …

Agile Games 2012 in C.T.Co

We in the CTCO Business Analysis Community have nurtured the idea for quite some time, and it all has happened on Christmas 2012 – with great support from our Human Resources Department and of course, everyone who has come to play! So what were our games about? We have picked a few brief assignments that agile trainers use to illustrate …

Android For Trainees In 2 Weeks: Myths And Reality

How quickly can you teach Android to a trainee and get him working on a project? In an Erasmus sponsored event – PROMAND, held in Poland this March, we have tried to achieve it in two weeks. 16 students from different Baltic universities, with basic knowledge of Java development, were split into a team of 4 and given a task …