I had a meeting recently with someone who was hesitant to sign up for my SaaS. He needed all the features my platform offers, but he was tossing around the idea of building a stripped-down standalone version instead. That’s when I laid out the reality check. Even if he went standalone, he’d still be on the hook for monthly hosting fees. Anything connected to the internet costs something to keep...
I’m not sure if I was just incredibly green or if the process has gotten significantly easier but releasing apps to the App and Play store is not nearly as big an ordeal as it once was. Thankfully, xcode even manages keys for you so iOS is arguably easier to work than Android. However, deploying Android apps is still a straight-forward process. In it’s infinite wisdom, the YouTube...
It’s not uncommon for a new developer to join a project and be required to set up a local dev environment. Depending on the company, there may be little instructions about how they want him to do this. More often than not the most straight-forward way to get this dev environment up and running is to install an XAMP server, then download the latest files from production and copy...
Recently I started working on a fairly complicated, high-volume Magento website. This website had a development and a production server and the client was juggling several different modifications at once in an effort to boost their sales and improve the customer experience. The problem was, that there was only one development server and they would often like to go back and forth...