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Budget Constraints Don’t Have To Be The Death Of Your Project

A limited budget, limited resources and time constraints: project problems. It's a very rare instance that any project doesn't have its obstacles, but after twenty years in the business we've learned some shortcuts. We don't mince words in that we…

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  • Post published:January 28, 2015

How The vteams Model Is Optimized For Stringent Deadlines

Like many companies, vteams has been through a series of business models in order to optimize our work flow, customer service and sales. Unlike most companies, we've had twenty years to do so. When a company hires vteams, they have…

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  • Post published:January 26, 2015

Better Timing (and sales) Through Notification Modules.

Real time updates means fewer lost sales! When a prospective international student makes inquiries with Living Arts College, the on-line college's sales staff has, on average, three hours to follow up with the candidates or lose them. Living Arts College's…

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  • Post published:October 15, 2014

Downloading mp3 Songs Directly to Dropbox from SoundCloud.

Here's how vteam #377 dealt with the need to download songs from SoundCloud and save them as mp3s to Dropbox: Not all songs are downloadable, so those can't be saved. SoundCloud also hosts differing file formats, including MPEG-4, so those…

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  • Post published:October 13, 2014

A Little WordPress Plugin Causes Problems For Us To Solve.

qTranslate wouldn't initialize! Posting multilingual content to a corporate WordPress blog is supposed to be made easy with its qTranslate plugin. Our client––who has us maintaining and developing several projects simultaneously––reported the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress 3.9.1 was broken and…

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  • Post published:October 9, 2014

Designing A Platform To Grow Businesses While Helping Causes.

SYNOPSIS: Team span: August 2013 to June 2014 Duration: 10 Months Technology: PHP 5.3/MySQL, OSCommerce, jQuery, SailThru, GitHub. Development Manager: Atta-ur-Rehman Engineer: Muhammad Rashid Reason for closure: Successful Project Completion Ethical consumption as a movement in which to grow businesses…

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  • Post published:October 3, 2014

Uploading Videos To A Newspaper Web Site From Anywhere.

Web application enables video uploads from the field! Today's newspaper websites are multimedia affairs and photo journalists are increasingly shooting both still and video images for newspapers' websites. Providing immediacy in coverage also means getting edited images and videos on-line…

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  • Post published:October 2, 2014

Your Trust Is Earned, Not Given.

Great communications lead the way! Look at any good discussion of outsourcing and you'll see Trust as a top concern of entrepreneurs. We've understood this all along, which is why our process is designed to earn it. A case in…

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  • Post published:October 1, 2014

It’s Ten O’Clock: Do You Know Where Your Graph Data Is?

Simple workaround prevents Highcharts data leaks Our client formed vteam #376 to make improvements in their Learning Management System (LMS) and to do so, we had to reverse engineer it. The application was already built in Zend Framework2, MySQL, AJAX,…

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  • Post published:September 30, 2014

How To Sync 24TB Of Data In No Time?

BitTorrent allows for much more reliable DNS Failover capacity Our client operates a web portal linking to a large and growing media database mostly in the form of mp3 files—24 Terabytes and counting. Wanting to enhance their back-end performance and…

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  • Post published:September 29, 2014

Project Management Software Hangs Up On The Datepicker.

jQuery Datepicker fails because it doesn't use Widget Factory vteams was building a Project Management Software (PMS) application the client wanted to appeal to both technical and non-technical people alike, by providing interactive roadmaps and timelines not available in other…

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  • Post published:September 26, 2014