Managing a dedicated software development team is like solving a jigsaw puzzle. You rid yourself of the blues and spend hours with one goal in mind i.e. to fix the puzzle. You first look for the most suitable place to…
A principal software engineer sitting in a glass cubicle; time flies by when he’s working on his laptop. He enters a flow state because he loves what he’s doing and is always willing to learn something new concerning his field.…
Do you want to know how to improve UI/UX design skills? Stay tuned! Think of your web app as the face of your company that stays active round the clock 24/7. These days people have set a few metrics to…
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If you've ever searched google for images of something very specific only to come back with a whole lot of junk and very little of what you actually needed, you understand the necessity for the sort of toolset we recently…
As technology progresses, even traditions such as reading the paper are finding their new homes on the laptops and tablets of people across the world. With this emerging tech trend comes opportunity for the progression of the mediums that are…
Most smartphone users are familiar with the push notification service; sometimes painfully persistent, occasionally irritating but most frequently a valuable function that alerts us when an update has occurred that we need to know about. When we were asked to…
We often discuss how frequent an occurrence it is that we're provided a half-completed application, asked to fix it up and/or complete it when others have failed. One recently completed two-year project is a great example of the "911 jobs"…
Deal-of-the-day website Groupon has enabled millions of businesses, small to large, to expand their client base with discounts. Launched in late 2008, the site is now valued at several billion dollars. Perhaps the most valuable benefit of Groupon to the…
We've mentioned Murphy's Law, haven't we? Its impeccable application to the software development world and how it never seems to fail? This project was no exception. When we discovered issues within an application causing vital cron jobs to fail, it…
While we're well-versed with creating customizations on any platform, anytime, anywhere for our own clients, it's slightly less frequent that we're asked to enable their customers themselves to customize at their leisure. This situation was different. According to our client…
Occasionally, choosing the right framework for your software is a task requiring research, time and effort. In that spirit, we here at vteams have developed a few simple pointers. As you likely know, though each framework is MVC-based the most…
The number one issue with developers today (especially freelancers) is that they are so thinly spread that they're often unable to manage the multiple projects they hack onto their agendas at a time. At vteams we tackle things slightly differently.…
Though many of our projects span from initiation to completion, perhaps an even larger number involve the enhancement of existing programs that other developers have crafted for clients. One great recent example is an instance in which we were hired…
When a client approached us in search of a "prediction system" for his real estate business, we had no idea how long the project had been coming. 5 years, maybe. 10, perhaps. But it was a full 15 years ago…
When specific software companies build one-size-fits-all programs such as inventory managers for their clients' use, there are both pros and cons. Such is the case for Fishbowl, a company out of Utah whose management system was running our client's site.…