Articles & Perspectives
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.
Will Your New Ecommerce Business Span the Cyber Globe?
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's the Plan to “Staff Up” Your New E-Commerce Business?
Giving consideration during the e-commerce planning process to the “people power” required for the addition of online sales. Options discussed include engaging employees or freelancers, outsourcing to development firms and "off the shelf" products.
Is Ecommerce an Option for your Brick & Mortar?
An outline of initial steps in the planning process for a brick and mortar operation considering an e-commerce presence, including which businesses lend themselves to e-commerce, analyzing potential competition in cyberspace, and the concept of differentiation in the online marketplace.
Gherkin - It ain't just a Pickle!
Gherkin is a simple programming language that you'll frequently find used in many of the more popular Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tools and across programming languages (e.g., Cucumber/Ruby).
Editable DataGrid with jQuery
An explanation and example of creating an editable datagrid from scratch using jQuery while working in SlickGrid.
PHPStorm Blows in with a Whirlwind of Code Prowess
PHPStorm is an Integrated Development Environment ("IDE") optimized for the PHP coding platform and has many more pros than cons when it comes to an IDE. PHPStorm is an Integrated Development Environment ("IDE") optimized for the PHP coding platform and has many more pros than cons when it comes to an IDE.
SlickGrid - Versatile, Customizable, FAST
SlickGrid is a jQuery/javascript grid framework. It has many options and can create rich grids with custom controls and displays.
The Truth About Magento and Entity-Attribute-Value
Magento is a serious e-commerce solution, built from the ground up for the kind of business logic that e-tailers use day in and day out. Magento is structured as an infinitely flexible shopping cart and product management system.
Google Earth DIV Overlay via iframe Shim
Steps for creating a div overlay on top of a Google Earth browser plugin rendering.