We threw a glam Christmas party on Friday at The Regent club in Nis to mark that magical time of year, one of our all-time favs.

The party kicked off at 7.30 pm. A local band was playing well pretty much everything we wanted to hear. We had a lot of guests attending the party as our friends joined too.

It was great fun chatting, dancing, singing and drinking wine till the small hours. A nice way to end 2007. Below is a happy snap. We’d rather not cram all the photos here, so check out the rest on Flickr.

Great news at Troxo! We continue to build an awesome team and are stoked to welcome Radomir Mladenovic, our chief project officer.

With a strong development background and over thirteen years experience in the IT industry, Radomir will help us manage a number of software projects. We’re lucky to have him with us. His arrival to our team now brings the total number of Troxo DOO members up to twenty-three.

As we like to code to music here at Troxo we wondered about the effect it has on the brain. We have come across many studies here but one by Teresa Lesiuk, Assistant Professor at the University of Miami, immediately grabbed our attention as it dealt with the effect of music listening on software design in particular.

The study, which involved 56 developers from four different Canadian software companies, was implemented in the participants’ actual work environments over five weeks.

It showed that people produce more quality work while listening to music and they finish their work faster when listening to music. It also stated that work environments with music help enhance employee moods. You may download the full text here.

The beneficial effect of music listening on work efficiency gains even more importance when you take a look at this study by Yuko Fujigaki which states that stress is present throughout almost all phases of software development.

Oblivious to such a tremendous effect of music on work performance, we asked some of our developers and designers what music they listened to while coding. Basically, our tastes differ to some extent but we all agree that we love having it around.

Ivan, Senior Software Architect: While I’m working, I prefer listening to classical music. It helps me stay focused on problems and tasks I’m working on. Vivaldi and Mendelssohn are my favorites.

Sasa, Senior Software Architect: I prefer listening to music while coding and that is a natural working environment for me. The list of my favorites is very long, but what I always love listening to is good old rock. Pink Floyd is very soft, easy and makes a good working atmosphere.

Classical music is inspiring and I sometimes put it on too. When I’m deep into a problem, music just fills the empty space around, brakes the silence and makes me more relaxed.

Dejan, Graphic Designer: At the creative stage I love to put on loud energy-filled music such as Prodigy or the UT2003 soundtrack created by Starsky Partridge and Kevin Riepl (favorite song Chemical Burn).

When doing xhtml/css I tend to listen to softer music like Air, dZihan & Kamien, Kevin Yost, James Blunt, Nelly Furtado, Amy Winehouse. Jazz anytime: Thelonious Monk, Dexter Gordon, Chareles Mingus, Miles Davis…

This post was written to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, (K. 448) to measure the disputed Mozart Effect.

There’s nothing we love more than our work being praised and recommended. To help our clients do more, we are looking to further grow our PHP team. The position is located in Nis, Serbia.

What’s in it for you?

This is an excellent opportunity for you to make your mark. We offer you the environment you need to grow as a developer, the opportunity to work on challenging projects and pick up new things every day, fun, even better colleagues and great conditions.

If you love what you do and want to push yourself for more, just drop us an email at career at troxo dot com and we’ll call you for an interview. And yeah, it’s been said a million times but a picture is worth a thousand words. Here are some photos of our team.

Why Troxo?

“I got an offer I couldn’t say no to. Seriously, being a part of the Troxo team and the chance to work with my colleagues on various challenging problems always learning new technologies makes me happy at work.”

Click here for the full interview with one of our developers. And hurry up! The kettle is on!

We’re back from this year’s biZbuZZ. It’s the second IT conference on Internet marketing in the south of Serbia, with Troxo as one of the sponsors.

This was a good conference with lots of top-notch speakers and good presentations on topics such as e-commerce, online branding, case studies, online advertising and corporate presence.

Our CEO Mladen Stojanovic gave a speech at the event about top 10 pieces of advice on Internet start-ups. We’ll have the video very soon to post it here. Till then, the rest in pictures.

We are back from Synergy ‘07, Microsoft’s 6th IT conference organized in Novi Sad. It was a nice experience as we like to stay on top of what’s going on in the IT industry in the country and beyond.

To this end, Damir and Ivan hit the road for three days at the biggest IT event in Southeast Europe.

The organizers did a great job. We picked up valuable information on the latest technologies and those in the pipeline, mingled with like-minded developers and of course, we had fun.

Things have been hectic this summer. We’re moving toward the end of another productive year with many interesting projects to work on and really cool clients to work with.

As you probably remember, we also have new programmers on the team which has really allowed us to stretch our wings when it comes to PHP programming. With Dusan and Marija on board, we now have a total of twenty developers working at full steam.

Yesterday we got together for a nice group photo. We felt it was high time we showed you our pretty faces.

We welcome our new members Marija and Dusan. They will join our custom PHP development team to help us produce more excellent web applications.

We already have very exciting projects for them and we invite more great people to join us!