Software Engineering Insights

Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, was quoted while saying "If I were to start Drupal from scratch today, I'd build it for mobile experience first and desktop experience second".

Blogs are of paramount importance to a website and especially to a Magento Developed Online Store. Blogs bring forth traffic and are the prime source of SEO leads. In this tight race of Blogging Platforms, Wordpress has turned out to be the fastest horse in the derby.

Whenever we read or talk about Goal Setting, we think about Targets, Timelines, Pressure, Coordination etc. Goal setting was envisioned to create focus in the mind of the team so that the planning and execution can happen in a structured manner. Goal Setting, if implemented effectively, can provide very crisp and clear path to be followed for the teams. Sadly though, over last few years, Goal Setting has taken shape of ad-hoc planning without long term or short term vision. It has become more of a to-do activity rather than a well thought of activity.

The years 2014-15 have brought in a revolution in the news & media industry. Even though prior challenges remain persistent but with a barrage of opportunities rising in this era, a new found vigor is palpitating strongly in the veins of the industry.

Ever since Apple unveiled its 8th major release of the iOS mobile operating system - iOS 8 on September 17, 2014, mobile Application developers have started working out on major App redesign while introducing performance enhancements & user interface improvements in their newly launched iOS Apps. This is because the performance of your mobile App, be it good or bad, greatly impacts your ROI, affecting the bottom-line of your business.

With the introduction of Google's Material User Interface concept, developers have already started updating their mobile apps with advanced design components such as buttons, dialog, dropdown menu, icon buttons, inputs, switches, toolbars and more for a brand new look & improved UI. But no matter how thoroughly you read the specified design guidelines, most of us still wonder while taking the switch from Holo (the dead Android Theme Google first introduced with Android 3.0 Honeycomb) to Material Design concept.

Getting stuff done with Laravel 4 using the App::make() method is extremely safe and rather a better approach to decouple dependencies from each other. While you type hint a dependency in the constructor method, the Laravel framework automatically injects dependencies by reading the type of its dependent object while using App::make() behind the scene.

Adopting a modern approach to software development with TDD yields tangible business outcomes. Following an agile approach, the entire software development lifecycle is broken down into small iterations in order to minimize the overall risk involved in carrying out a project.

Concrete5 is extremely finicky. Hence transitioning a Concrete5 web project from Windows server to Linux server can often turn out to be a daunting task for developers.