If you ask us what makes any company successful, we’ll say: “its employees”. It is hard to underestimate the true power of a great team. That’s why so many businesses these days pay special attention to employee hiring, onboarding and further management. However, it is not an ea … | Continue reading
Customer loyalty is a vital prerequisite for the success of every business. However, just providing high-quality services or selling good products is usually not enough. People want to get rewarded for their dedication to a particular brand, so companies need to develop customer … | Continue reading
When a development team creates a new application, it usually pays more attention to functionality than the visual design itself. Actually, it can be a mistake, as design matters as much as functionality. “Usable designs are not necessarily enjoyable to use”, stated Donald Norma … | Continue reading
Every aspect of our life is moving online, trading apps are gaining more and more popularity. But why do apps like Robinhood or TD Ameritrade have a big and loyal audience while others remain relatively unknown? One of the reasons is superior user experience (UX). UI/UX plays a b … | Continue reading
Summary In the world of enterprises, strong and quick software became a must-have, whether you’re looking for services to use inside the company or you’re offering a product to your audience. Usually, enterprise applications and websites need to handle a lot of users with minimum … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence (AI) has tremendous potential in cybersecurity, a rapidly growing field. Businesses are worried about growing cyber threats, and rightly so: just one successful malware attack can cause a lot of financial, reputational, and legal damage, even stopping a bu … | Continue reading
In an age of automation and advanced analytics, relying on guesswork to find leads is the most ineffective approach. You probably don’t want to rely on this approach to build customer and lead relationships, and you certainly don’t want to rely on randomization to succeed. For th … | Continue reading
Initiating a software development project is a very serious decision, especially if you are doing it for the first time. You may do your own research and read dozens of articles and forum topics regarding the software development process, but some questions will still inevitably … | Continue reading
The technological world changes before you know it. Implementing these modern technologies brings higher productivity, flexibility, and scalability to businesses of any industry. However, large companies often do not have enough employees and time to keep up with these rapid upda … | Continue reading
As a company develops and scales up its business operations, its code’s sophistication must follow. That is, the supporting technology must evolve in step with the growth of the organization to ensure that the sprawling company does not collapse under its own weight. But this is … | Continue reading
Starting the business from scratch can seem quite challenging. Considerations if your idea is brilliant enough if your revenue will be just the same as you imagine, if your solution is great enough to be competitive in the industry – we can continue to count hesitations forever. … | Continue reading
If I say that 2020 has turned everything upside down, you are unlikely to argue. The pandemic transformed much of the daily routine. People worldwide spent most of the year locked up and forced to run their businesses from home. Video conferences became the only way to conduct bu … | Continue reading
When hiring an experienced team of developers to build your custom software, there is one more vital thing to consider, and this is the pricing models that this company provides. The pricing model is one of the contracts that are essential to be signed with the hired team and it … | Continue reading
The development of web apps consists of many structured steps that lead to the final result. One of the main steps is choosing a suitable framework. In this article, we will talk about AngularJS and its latest version Angular. What is the difference between these two versions and … | Continue reading
The end goal of any software development is a successful release of the ready made solution. The release is one of the most important and anticipated events in the software development lifecycle. Preparing for release can take a lot of time and effort, involving the entire team … | Continue reading
If we speak about programming and the word “PHP” comes out in this dialogue, many developers will demonstrate either indifference or open hate towards this programming language. While some tech takes don’t like PHP due to some of its functional things, others just hate it because … | Continue reading
Building your own unique solution is a serious decision and if you made it, you’d better do everything properly. After all, you have some expectations put on your future project and you do not want it to fail or make a wrong turn. Everything starts with an idea but if you do not … | Continue reading
Containerization and division into microservices are the most popular tendencies in today’s IT industry. The main purpose of these tendencies is to arrange a project or its functionally isolated part into a self-sufficient image that can be launched on different platforms and in … | Continue reading
Restaurant business is the most profitable and yet challenging one. Restaurant and cafe owners have to manage numerous processes and sometimes they do not have either time or resources to do this properly. That is why software optimization is a must for this business. Investing … | Continue reading
Let’s say you need to get started with a new project. There would probably be a lot of tasks and obstacles waiting for you ahead. But before you begin this development journey you need to formulate a comprehensive project vision. This is a concept that should be understandable fo … | Continue reading
What is the cost of lies? Well, for one thing, there is always a price to pay for a deception of any kind and that is the fact. Can companies be held responsible for that? They definitely can, although they rarely are. Skipping the abstractions, let’s start a conversation today … | Continue reading
Adobe Flash Player support will end this year in December. The technology has become obsolete and have no place on the web anymore. Yet, as of this time there are more than 41 000 websites with embedded Adobe Flash Player functionality in US alone. What about them? There need to … | Continue reading
What is geofencing? The origins of this technology go back as far as 1960s. Geofencing is in cahoots with Global Positioning System (GPS) first developed for the American NAVY. Commercially used, geofencing is tightly associated with the so-called Proximity Marketing. The latter … | Continue reading
What is an Enterprise Portal? In broad terms, it is a decentralized internal system deployed by big and middle companies for the sake of fluent and timely communication between the company’s employees, and sometimes with customers as well. Enterprise portals are designed for cont … | Continue reading
Okay, we admit it – we don’t like builders, software constructors and all the other highly promoted and well-marketed ready-made software solutions. We only like custom-made libraries like those on GitHub, those done by pros to serve specific purposes. To be honest, yes, it is o … | Continue reading
About some time ago we have covered the many faults and problematic disruptions delivered by the Big Tech corporations. Just the same there’s a worldwide criticism directed at the variety of modern innovations, many of which can be of great benefit for human society. You can add … | Continue reading
Bubble is another website builder or software development constructor that makes possible “programming without coding”. Since the success of WordPress and its many counterparts like Joomla, Wix and Magento, website builders became a niche of software products that offer a certain … | Continue reading
Nowadays almost every successful company runs business in Internet. The World Wide Web grants numerous possibilities to both startupers and business owners and lets them reach out to a bigger number of potential clients. So many entrepreneurs sooner or later consider developing … | Continue reading
Every industry can benefit from going digital. You’ve heard this cliche a million times now, especially from me. Sorry but that’s true. The app won’t hurt your health insurance business, if you already have one, especially now when health industry is told to employ the most promi … | Continue reading
There are many definitions in the developer’s vocabulary. And for a majority of users an engineer’s lexicon can be tough to handle. There are various systems at work, countless abbreviations and many more appear on a daily basis. “Framework” should definitely be the one to know b … | Continue reading
The year 2019 can be fairly named the year of Eco-Activism. The attention to the critical environmental issues such as global warming and rapid extinction of wild species is at the all time high. Although, you probably already know that from Greta Thunberg. What has this to do wi … | Continue reading
There is always a strong correlation between a project’s budget and its deadline. Common consensus holds it that to deliver the final product faster requires either to compromise the quality or to pay more. This is especially important not just concerning software development but … | Continue reading
What we talk about when we talk about mobile app design? Essentially, we’re addressing everything visual that appear front and center before the end user’s eyes, right? Mobile app design is nowadays referred to as UI/UX design. Nevertheless, it is the same program interface desig … | Continue reading
Let’s talk about offline mode for your app. What is it, really? Do you need one? If yes, why? And how does it work? First of all, let me remind you that the majority of internet users today access the web with their smartphones. It is easier, faster, and more convenient. Mainly, … | Continue reading
We seriously consider to dedicate a special column to the apps we really like that are quite astonishing in their appeal. And our latest favorite is Cameo – the app that allows users to buy personalized video messages from celebrities. How to use Cameo App? Cameo is a platform t … | Continue reading
The year 2019 brought many new trends and innovations but it has also changed how general public treats technology and, specifically, the sector’s tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber and Twitter. In the west general consensus now holds that these companies should be h … | Continue reading
Anyone interested in software development have probably heard of the recent popularity of DevOps (short for Development and Operations) and a specific individual in a team who holds this position. Believe it or not but new job titles appear from time to time because modern approa … | Continue reading
One can hardly find a business that won’t benefit from having a web portal. This type of software solution allows organizations to automate numerous processes and significantly increase engagement for employees, customers, and partners. But how much money does a company need to d … | Continue reading
Magento is definitely one of the most widespread and effective CMS systems designed specifically for online marketplaces. Even though it was not initially created with this purpose in mind, thousands of online retailers around the world have quickly adopted Magento as a platform … | Continue reading
FaceApp has gone viral, again. Users all around the world upload their photos to see how they do they look like older. This is a fun thing to do or, at least, interesting. But, as usual, the use of photo recognition and neural networks can be applied not only to mess up your phot … | Continue reading
On June 18 Facebook has finally shed light on its upcoming global cryptocurrency project Libra. Facebook’s official cryptocurrency alongside with Calibra wallet will be launched worldwide early in 2020. Meet the New Financial Market: Libra, Libra Foundation, and Calibra It is par … | Continue reading
Today’s logistics businesses face many challenges. The demand for delivery services is constantly growing, customer expectations are higher than ever before, and the competition is becoming tougher and tougher every single year. Why is it so? The answer is simple: digitalization. … | Continue reading
We know about Fuchsia since August 2016 but it’s still full of mysteries. Is it a real project or just a hoax? How will it look like? Will it replace Android completely? Is it going to be a device agnostic OS or aimed specifically at mobile development? As of March 2019, Google m … | Continue reading
When it comes to a song recognizing app, the first one that comes to mind is Shazam. And it’s no surprise since statistics show that this application has about 300-400 million annual users and has been downloaded more than 1 billion times. Nowadays, Shazam is the most used app to … | Continue reading
Working with Angular implies a wide use of reactive programming, that is, programming with asynchronous data streams. Angular components often operate with several observable streams that have overlapping sequences of values and errors. Testing such scenarios using common methods … | Continue reading
API integration is one of the smartest ways to increase your company’s revenue. Yet, as we see from the practice, it does not receive the attention it really deserves. And the reason is twofold. First of all, not many people from the non-programming world really understand what i … | Continue reading
In today’s fast-paced world, people want to reduce time spent on routine tasks as much as possible. We all expect online purchases to be easy and convenient. And this, basically, means that we want to buy things with just one click without wasting our precious minutes on entering … | Continue reading
Scrum has already proved to be one of the most effective methodologies for managing a product development process. It helps teams set a workflow and make the work on a project as productive and efficient as possible. We have a separate article explaining what Scrum is, the philos … | Continue reading