Is Open Source Software Good for Business?
The open source path isn't always easy, but it's a good starting point for your business.
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Now it is easier than ever to launch technology startup.
But is it really that easy?
Can your Technology department achieve all their goals for 2019?
Our CEO, Americas Elkhan Shabanov is sharing his ideas on how you could still achieve your department goals for the year.
Is Technology the Answer to Your Business Problems?
Fast forward thousands of dollars spent on a new CRM, Mobile App, Reporting System, or whatever technical solution that you may have thought would work, but the business problem remains unanswered. Here at Digicode, we have the unique ability to not only provide you with world-class technology services but can also help with your business challenges.
The Differences between Proof of Concept, Prototype, and Minimum Viable Product
When implementing a new process or concept, there are a few steps that can be taken to see if the idea can be a reality. Using the proof of concept, prototype, pilot or minimum viable product methods are those steps. Each method is different with the biggest difference being the scope and the underlying costs associated with each piece.
The Simplest Way to Align Your IT/Technology Department with Your Business Goals
Sharing as much information as possible with your IT/Technology department will keep members of the team motivated and focused on the RIGHT things. This will allow them to make the RIGHT decisions, have the RIGHT priorities, and the RIGHT abilities to achieve your goal.
Chat System: How to design a library (Part Three)
How to create a Library that any customer can easily integrate to their website.
The Art and Science behind Design and Architectural Patterns
Expert Andrii Barvynko shares insights on design and architecture patterns and the role that they play for developers and their team.
Why your IT/Technology department is creating its own rules?
For many organizations undertaking of implementation of proprietary technology resembles a house renovation: you have the start date, you have the (known today) scope,and you have the budget. But what you don’t have is confidence in the end date (often it never comes even with successful projects), the final scope (this is an elusive and ambitious target) and the final budget.
Automation Coverage – Best Practices, When You Shouldn’t Start and When to Stop
When thinking about testing automation the popular movement in technology today is to automatically (forgive the pun) go full all in on a testing automation investment. However, not every technology or project necessarily needs a large-scale automation investment. The following represents some of our experience around when and how the decision to invest should be made.
Tools that Make QA Life Easier
In this connection between automation and manual testing here are some tools to help both QA testers and QA developers to perform efficiently. The list represented in this post is not comprehensive but I still hope you to find it useful.
Is your IT department creating an island of their own culture?
Companies struggle with an isolated IT/Technology department culture. This article has some suggestions on how companies can overcome and improve the situation.
Digicode Motivations
Elkhan Shabanov joins Digicode as the CEO of Americas. Elkhan shares some of his thoughts and vision for how Digicode makes an impact on our client's businesses.
The What and the How & Where’s the Why?
A common set of mistakes that product teams make when building new technology products and some tips to overcome them.
Using Node.js
If you are in the world of computer science, coding or technology, you need to know and understand Node. Node is a trending technology and a very smart technology that is being used in the development of many apps and for many websites.
How Many Versions of OS Should My Mobile App Support?
The question of “Which Android and iOS versions should my app support?” is often raised by clients. In this article we will discuss this question and we will attempt to present a reasonable answer.
HTML5 Games Optimization, The Common Tricks And A Bit Of Magic
Technology is pretty astonishing today and there are a wide range of Apps, technical frameworks, apps and ready-made solutions for developing games today. If you want to design or develop a game, and you know a little bit about software, computers and coding, you can make a game, easily. But you do need to look at the quality of your game because customers want the best.
Why do we need API testing?
The API can be compared with a waiter in a restaurant - it serves as a mediator between the one who orders food and the kitchen that prepares it. It delivers the order to the kitchen and then brings the dish to the client. The more customers there are in a restaurant, the more waiters are needed. In the same way, and as a rule, various people are involved in the development of the client and server. These are the Front-end and the Back- end Developers, each of which may use a different programming language.
Chat System: Firebase, Authentication and Roles (Part One)
Our goal for this project is to provide a chat system for visitors of the website so they can be easily assisted by the website’s owner in our support department. It is essential for the website’s owner to have the ability to customize the chat widget and have a powerful integration of support in the back office with all visitors and user’s information from the website’s database.
Web Project Optimization
In order to minimalize the amount of time needed for loading and rendering content, all applications should request required content in a timely fashion, whether it be at the users demand or in the event it be prefetched before. Please ensure applications use local copies of content if necessary and create http request models as small as possible.
Why the Discovery Phase is so Important
Digital projects can be expensive, with larger initiatives involving several partners and often challenging targets. But even today, many businesses just begin new projects with little to no detailed research, just an idea, an audience profile and a promise from a partner. But is that really sensible? Just because its digital, doesn’t mean the risks are not real, and the costs are certainly real.
Kicking your own Ass to Help your Client
As consultants, we are constantly approached by organizations looking to solve their business problems. They vary immensely, some may be related to growth, others concerned about a short-term spike in their technology demands, while some need help transforming from a startup style ad-hoc structure into a middle-sized organization with defined processes and structure and so on.
Cross Platform Mobile Engineering Tools
Mobile development has had an inbuilt complication from almost day one if you want to ensure the widest audience possible, and that is the competing platforms. Usually, covering the entire user base means developing for two platforms separately, iOS and Android, adding time and cost to the entire process. However, recently several tools have come to market aimed at streamlining the development process by providing сross platform support.
Good Product Marketing is Hard to Come By
Marketing today is struggling to find its way, resorting to 140-character tweets with a lack of focus or outcome keeps brand awareness high, but falls short when it comes to desired outcomes. A return to well researched value propositions designed to meet established needs is crucial for long term marketing success.
Mastering the API workflow with Postman
Anyone who has built an API will know just how easy it is for a project to become disorganized and messy. Even if you use a document first workflow, things can feel a little clumsy, and so a solution that keeps control, but doesn’t get in the way of your flow could really make a difference.