Cykra's Blog

We are really proud to be featured amongst this months Top App creators by TAC. 

Today we are releasing our new Cykra website! It has been long time underway but we are extremely proud of the final result which is both beautiful and unique while truly conveying our identity and future as a company. So we invite you now to check it out. We hope you will enjoy it as much as we do and never forget who does the best custom apps and websites. ;)

After months of hard work wrestling with various new apps and websites, we managed to find time for a well deserved day away from the keyboard. So we went on an adrenaline fueled zip lining adventure at Casela Nature Park Mauritius followed by a nice lunch at the bay hotel with a little birthday surprise for Yohini. Check out the pictures below:

In retrospect, 2015 was a very good first year for Cykra but certainly also a bumpy ride. We grew from nearly nothing, to a small solid team of 5 people. We converted a private residence in Albion, Mauritius, to a beautiful office with brand new furniture and room to further expand our team. We built and maintained apps and websites for clients in Scandinavia, UK and Mauritius. We launched our first product; our cross platform password manager Lifekees. We have failed and succeeded, and many lessons were learned.

I am proud of what we have achieved as a team and I am very proud of our team itself. Certainly we could not have gone so far without our collaborators such as Keseena and Associates Ltd, Pro.duce Ltd and &Hype ApS.  

For 2016, we are ready with an optimised strategy to ensure stability and steady growth of the company. One important point in this strategy is to promote knowledge sharing, widen experience accumulation and have more fun by increasingly lifting tasks as a team effort.

Cykra should in this coming year move a great deal closer to our long term goal of becoming one of the best and highest regarded employers and fosterers of IT talent in Mauritius.

In 2015, we made “HTML5 app and web development” our area of expertise, and in 2016 we will polish and fine tune this skill-set to perfection, to become one of the best in the field.

Lastly in this new year we will bring much expansion to our newly launched password manager; Lifekees. As our first and primary product (aside of software development), further establishing this product on the market will be our major objective of 2016.  With that I will once again thank the Cykra team, our collaborators and customers for a great and exciting year. I wish you all the best for 2016 and I look forward to an even more exciting year alongside of you.  Happy New Year Nicklas Wolff CEO

We are thrilled to announce that our new product; Lifekees has just landed and is here to assist you and your digital life by keeping your passwords organised, secure and readily available whenever you need them. Lifekees offers a highly simplified user experience which can be enjoyed by people of all technical levels. 

In terms of security and privacy, you can trust Lifekees to keep your data safe with industrial strength encryption implemented according to all the best practices. Available for iOS, Android and in any web browser!

Learn more at: http://www.lifekees.com

Cykra is now searching a clever Administrative Assistant to help manage the office of Cykra in Albion, Mauritius. Responsibilities include:

Keeping Books and Accounts

Sending invoices

Paying Bills and Salaries

Marketing and promotional work

Make enquires

Talk to clients

Help organising tasks

Purchase office supplies

Instruct the cleaning personnel

Assist the directors with various tasks

Send your application to: [email protected]

We are currently in search of web developers to fill two open full-time positions at our Mauritian office in Albion. Senior Web Developer A well experienced full stack web developer fluent with technologies such as PHP and MySQL and/or AngularJS, NodeJS and NoSQL databases.  Junior Web Developer A clever fresh graduate or intern, ready to learn fast and work hard. Basic knowledge of web-development is required. The job positions involves building new apps and websites as well as updating existing work for multiple european clients, using the latest HTML5 technologies. Please send your application and CV to: [email protected]

Holograms has for a long time been a fascinating movie effect. However, creating realworld holograms have been expensive, highly impractical and somewhat unimpressive. Microsoft has explored holograms from a very interesting angle, leaving behind the traditional but troublesome idea of objective holograms in favor of a subjective holograms, generated to the wearer by their new HoloLens. To call it entirely subjective, for the wearer of the HoloLens, may be to sell it a bit short, as a second wearer of the HoloLens will be able to view the same hologram, thereby moving it closer to an objective hologram. Perhaps something we could call a "shared subjective hologram". This we believe will be the game changer that allows for holographic technology to really take shape in the near future.

The subject of HTML5 can be rather confusing at times mainly due to the large difference in its actual definition and how it is most broadly understood.

It is very likely that you have already read about HTML5 in connection with Adobe Flash, even perhaps as the successor of Flash. Further, terms such as "HTML5 architecture" and "HTML5 apps" are becoming very common and implies a rich possibility of processing in HTML5. But in actuality HTML5 is simply an extended set of HTML-tags, who's purpose, just as earlier versions, is to structure and present content, and therefore not directly to provide any sort of animations, data processing, or advanced interactivity. The explanation behind this use of the term "HTML5", is in fact that HTML5 somewhere along the way came to imply the use of Javascript and CSS. The term was somehow misinterpreted so broadly that its meaning effectively changed and today HTML5 may imply, not only the use of Javascript, but more specifically the use of modern asynchronous javascript web architectures or libraries such as AngularJS and JQuery, and responsive webdesigns. In this article, we have adopted this misuse of the term "HTML5".

To all our collaborators, partners, customers and friends, we wish you all the merriest christmas and the happiest new year!