Extending the runway of a startup is the unglamorous work every startup has to do if they want to give themselves enough time to get their product from the runway up into pure air. While it would be nice to think of a world where good, value-driven startups were so
Read MoreVery few companies entirely function independently. Outsourcing allows businesses to streamline their processes while cutting costs at the same time. However, figuring out when and how to outsource, can prove to be a complicated process. In fact, most have very contradicting opinions on outsourcing. Though it consumes more time than
Read MoreSoftware development projects are difficult to size up accurately, unlike other everyday objects like the table which comes with a fixed length, breadth and height. Most objects can be sized up using one or more parameters. Lines of Code (LOC) is the closest we’ve come to sizing up software.
Read MoreEvery customer comes with their own idiosyncrasies, rendering every “best practice” of yours ineffective. Even so, you can take cues from attributes across the landscape of SaaS users and narrow down trends. This process isn’t as hard as you believe it to be, neither will it prove as easy
Read MoreOutsourcing, the word is bound to make you think of India. In today’s tech heavy environment, there’s no dearth of software development firms eager to create your next web or mobile application. With all the horror stories around outsourcing, it is imperative to choose the right vendor. What
Read MoreOutsourcing, the very word for many paints a picture of offshore labor cranking out shoddy code at bargain basement rates. Despite the stigma attached to outsourcing, many still choose to outsource. This is because most companies are bound to gain a competitive advantage by cutting their costs. Bad outsourcing decisions
Read MoreToday, your developers can write extremely sophisticated tests using Test-driven development style (TDD) and Behavioral-driven development style (BDD), along with making use of powerful test frameworks, using gems like RSpec and Cucumber. Rails by default comes with robust automated test capabilities, making it easy to write your tests. To begin
Read MoreAs agile methodologies started amassing across the board adoption, you’ll find enough platforms online debating whether it’s the truly superior method or not. Most would have you believe, Agile is the way to go, while others argue about the benefits of adopting the Waterfall methodology. Today, we refuse
Read MoreTitanium was developed by Appcelerator as an open source tool to help develop apps on mobile devices. The aim of the company was to make a development kit that was flexible enough to create for both Android and iOS. This is accomplished by using javascript API and allowing the code
Read MoreThe internet houses all the answers we seek. This celebrated medium is dense and sometimes, chaotic. Nevertheless, I’ve always found the answers I sought. The credit belongs to usability and familiarity. As you hover over your keyboard, all set to type, your fingers will do the work without any
Read MoreIn the past few years, the buzz about conversational experiences and digital assistants has increased. As you can see above, eMarketer is predicting that 87% of B2C marketers in the US will use chatbots and digital assistants in their marketing efforts by 2021. We can see these days that conversational
Read MoreYou’ve designed a wonderfully self-contained web application, built to run on web browsers, unlike the kind of application your users would download from an app store. In your scenario, your application needs to find a home on the Web. In other words, it needs a Web address so your
Read MoreIrrespective of the platform your developers choose for deployment, there are some general checklists to be followed apart from the steps you’ll follow for the environment selected. From the outset, you’ll have to make the following choices: Where to deploy and the choice of the web server: You’
Read MoreThese days, developers should feel challenged to create only apps and websites that will work on all browsers and to use the right framework to allow them to do so. While frameworks are both a personal and practical choice, we've narrowed the wide range of open source responsive frameworks to
Read MoreWhy cache? In a nutshell, caching can speed up your Rails application. Especially with Ruby, a language which isn’t very fast, caching is essential. Your developers probably hear the word “cache” a lot, it happens to be a French word and translates to mean “to hide.” Caching is storing
Read MoreWe talk about this generation of users and their rising intolerance towards a five-second delay in loading a page or towards a few too many notifications and ads. You see, but the changes haven’t only been on your user’s end, your developer’s too, expect a lot more
Read MoreToday smartphones are ubiquitous. With it the application landscape has undergone a revolution, churning out a large number of applications to keep up with the user's needs and wants. Businesses are increasingly finding it necessary to have an application to remain relevant and connected with their users. Additionally, your user’
Read MoreRuby on Rails is a great framework for you to build web applications easily and have it running in a small amount of time. It’s emphasis on certain principles like convention over configuration and Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) makes the development process faster, but no advantage indeed comes
Read MoreElevators have changed the way people physically move through buildings. Soon enough, the landscape of most cities was dotted with skyscrapers, made possible due to elevators making top floors desirable. Elevators themselves have evolved. Cranks and levers were replaced with buttons and motion sensors, making elevator operators, redundant. The smartphones
Read MoreWe live in a time where startups offering new and unique services are cropping up all over the place. A satisfied user is becoming more and more of a rarity, what with so many options out there. Add to that, with the importance placed on user acquisition we forget to
Read MoreGreat design is the only thing differentiating your software-as-a-service (SaaS) product from the products and services offered by your competitors. Just because your SaaS product is beautiful doesn’t mean it’s usable. Great design balances a great user experience (UX) with a great looking user interface (UI) to create
Read MoreRuby on Rails is emerging as a leading player for building enterprise-level web applications. You can picture Rails as a box of development tools, lending your developers the necessary framework to structure their codes in. Thanks to the presence of open-source software libraries, known as RubyGems, startups too will find
Read MoreGoogle Photos is the first to bring image recognition features to the public. It relies on pattern matching algorithms and image classification. This is the technology which makes it possible for us to search for photos containing a particular landmark or object. By open sourcing Cloud Vision, Google allows developers
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