Knowing what your customer wants and being critical of your product idea is the first step in becoming a successful product owner. According to The $100 Startup, by Chris Guillebeau, to have a successful product you […]

“Unit tests”. Even the sheer mention of the words can send shivers down the most veteran developers’ spines and recall memories of unrelenting QA engineers. Okay, enough with the drama! Just tell your developers […]

Are you buying into the open source and/or anti-relational database movement? Recently, the interest in the database technology “Cassandra” has produced a metaphorical wind for the NoSQL movement sailboat. Apache’s product Cassandra DB is […]

It is very prevalent throughout the web development environment to follow the conventional HTTP paradigm of a synchronous request and response.  Whether in the standard context of HTTP/HTML or performing web service calls, frameworks […]

We are excited to have SOLTECH’s Vice President, Veanne Smith be a guest speaker on this week’s Midtown Business Radio! Veanne was asked to share with the audience our SOLTECH story and why SOLTECH is […]

Imagine (if you can) a place without a stable distributed phone system. Every office, city, and home had their own phone system with a local switchboard. To call your kids for dinner upstairs you […]

Yahoo’s recent acquisition of MessageMe for $11.9 million is a hard line business decision, consistent with CEO Marissa Mayer’s aggressive acquisition strategy, and signals yet another example of how apps are not only changing the world, but making some app developers very rich […]

During most of my career, I have worked with HTML 4, created back in 1997, and XHTML 1.0 which came along in 2000. For over a decade, web interface developers have used HTML 4 […]

The key to long-term success with any server technology is to plan for failure. Amazon’s cloud infrastructure (the official name is Amazon Web Services or AWS) has a lot of advantages when compared to […]

As you know, it’s a mobile world! Our mobile devices and cell phones can do everything from giving you directions to holding digital boarding passes.  They contain all types of personal information, such as […]