Posts Tagged: Development

1. New Work: The Greenwich Tent Company Website

   The Greenwich Tent Company is an event rentals company in Fairfield County, Connecticut. They provide top quality event rentals throughout Connecticut and New York. Late last year we had the pleasure of working with them to build their brand, and we were excited to continue that work this year with a beautiful new website. They needed a website that introduced them as a leader in luxury event rentals, and showcased their wide-ranging capabilities. Read More

2. A Small Business Guide to the Web: Responsive Web Design

   In this installment of our series, where we explain tech jargon in plain language, we’ll tackle the term responsive web design. Read More

3. A Small Business Guide to the Web: SEO

   This is the start of an occasional series on web development buzzwords. In each article we’ll take time to help demystify the tech jargon, and explain what these terms mean in plain language. In this installment we’ll tackle one of the most ubiquitous, and perhaps most misunderstood terms, SEO. Read More

4. Creating Highly Scalable Applications Using Couchbase, Akka.Net, Akka.Persistence and Akka.Persistence.Couchbase

   This article covers at a very high level what’s needed to start exploring the Akka persistence plug-in when working together with Couchbase. It will also help you get a sample application running with Couchbase as a backend data store. If you’re new to Akka.Net, and/or Akka.Persistence we’ve written little story to help clarify what each component does. Otherwise if you’re more experienced, or short on time, skip the story to get the details of the Akka.Persistence.Couchbase plugin. Read More

5. Setting Up An Erlang and SQL Server Test Rig

   We are in the beginnings of a project in which we will be building an Erlang service. The first step in being able to develop anything is to have a test rig that will allow you to mimic the final production environment. Read More

6. The “Not So Artful” Process of Software Development

   Writing code is an art. Architecting a system is an art. Making a website usable, simple and intuitive is an art. But all art has its techniques, rules and procedures that assist the creative process in achieving its greatness. Planning software development is one of those processes which, if executed rigorously, yields incredible freedom for the developers, project managers, designers and system architects to focus their creative efforts on what matters —the end-goal. Read More