The Basics About Database Applications

What is a database and why do you need one? Learn about best practices for creating and maintaining databases and database applications.

Choosing a Crowdfunding Platform

Choosing a crowdfunding platform that's best for your campaign is no small task since popular platforms may appear identical, but that impression dissipates upon further examination.

Intro to Payment Gateways for Your Crowdfunding Site

How to determine the best Payment Gateways for your Crowdfunding Site including discussion of "all-or-nothing" and "partial credit" models and comparisons of payment service providers WePay, Balanced and PayPal.

Can a Minimum Viable Product Be a Building Block for Your Business?

Discussion of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as the building block for a business. Topics covered include cost efficient and timely feedback, use by startups and relation to crowd funding websites.

What is an API and What Can it Do?

Brief article explaining the benefits of API development for your software project. Learning the basics of API integrations in order to develop a more powerful software. Better data and better functionality can be expected from API development projects.

Website ADA Compliance

A growing roster of businesses have been snared by ADA lawsuits targeting websites. The Trump administration's unfortunate decision to stop drafting rules for website ADA compliance leaves the marketplace vulnerable to a potential tidal wave of legal action.

Magento: Getting Started

Implementing and developing a Magento ecommerce store can take a DIY or agency approach. Learn the critical details about Magento and the basic steps for implementing it.

Adobe Photoshop API Developer Shares Experience

Rob Olmos breaks down the Adobe Photoshop API which is currently in Beta. Learn how to connect, see basic usage examples, and discover what is supported and what's not.

How to create a Shopify Checkout UI Extension

Developer Best Practices

Here at Endertech we pride ourselves on doing a good job and providing maximum value to our clients. Feeling satisfaction in doing one’s job is what keeps work fun and interesting. In accordance with those ideologies, we pay close attention to our code quality. For me, I consider coding to be digital clay and a form of artistic expression. Along those lines, creating the best possible code can be considered an artform. There’s a lot to consider there; in this article I’ll go over the basic tenets that guide Endertech's developers and our coding process.

Create a Shopify Store-Aware Conversational Chatbot

We turned a basic Shopify custom app install into an immediately useful, store-scoped AI chat experience. This deep dive walks through our OAuth flow, tenant/shop mapping, AI orchestration pattern, guardrails, and operational hardening so each merchant lands in an intelligent chat already aware of their store.

How Symfony1.4 Provides a Route to a Better URL

An explanation of how a Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") is affected by the Symfony1.4 framework including a discussion of route patterns, request URL translation and URL creation via Symfony1.4.