When to Use Open Source Code in Your Web Application

Are you looking to develop a web-based product or app? Not sure whether to use open source code? Here are some general guidelines about when and why you should go open source, and which parts of your web app would be best coded from scratch.

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The Business Case for Laravel

Ask any Laravel developer about why they use Laravel, and they’ll instantly give you lots of geeky information about things like the expressive syntax, the way the ORM allows complex queries to be built quickly even for the largest databases, and how AuthController automatically uses BCrypt to hash user password databases. If that sounds like […]

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10 Things to Consider When Hiring a Web Development Company

It’s notoriously hard to find good web app developers and web development companies – demand outstrips supply, resumes and websites are filled with technical jargon, and the best people are in such high demand that it can be difficult to even get their attention. Signing a contract with the wrong web development firm can cost […]

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MailChimp Pricing: Monthly vs. Pay As You Go

MailChimp is a nice, easy-to-use service for sending email newsletters. (If you’ve never used them but their name sounds familiar, they have also sponsored almost every single podcast ever made!) Our clients use MailChimp, and we had a question the other day about the details of how MailChimp’s pricing works. (Note that all the prices below […]

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