At last count, both Google and Apple were fast approaching the million app mark with the Google Play Store and the iTunes App Stores. Both vendors predict that they will cross this mark sometime in 2013. Microsoft is currently way [...]
JQuery has really come on during the last 3 to 4 years, and according to Wikipedia, it is now used by a majority of the most used websites. So what’s all the fuss about? It’s all just geek talk, anyway, [...]
We recently came across the interesting experience where a person got in touch with us after a gap of over a year. We had a number of discussions during our last engagement, and although the client was happy with the [...]
The last two days, I’ve been totally immersed in creating a forecasting tool for retail stores. The challenge was to develop a software that was self learning; in the sense that it would need to analyze previous years’ data, and [...]
Over the last year, we have been exploring new, visual ways to represent requirements. Conventional approaches look at UseCases or User Stories to represent user scenarios, but our experience has been that business users rarely read through and  understand these technical [...]
In the words of a frustrated software client, it’s very possible for software development firms “do everything that the client asks for, without doing anything that the client needs.” It seems like a contradiction in terms, but those of us [...]
Wade Myers has put up a really interesting blog post on Selecting a Software Developer. Although the title may give the impression that it is a post on how to get good software developer, engineer or programmer at low costs, the article [...]
The recent slide on the Dow Jones that has taken the index below 10,000 for the first time in 3 months is the surest indicator yet that the recession hangover has not fully left us. No doubt the Eurozone troubles [...]
Most web applications built on Java or .Net have built in reports that allow the key stakeholders to see how the application behaves with respect to their goals and KPIs. Traditionally these reports are defined with the software requirements and [...]