Startup Portal

Startup PortalCrowdfunding Financial Analytics Platform – 2023 External Data Integration and ELTCustom PHP DevelopmentUI/UXBUSINESS GOALS Startup Portal is a company that helps new businesses reach their financial reporting, accounting, and corporate governance needs. Startup Portal contracted OPG to design and develop a platform to support the management and analysis of crowdfunding financial and filing data…

What Are Frameworks And Why Do We Use Them?

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” Carl Sagan In the context of software development, a framework refers to a pre-established structure and set of tools that provide a foundation for building applications. They offer a standardized way to develop software by providing reusable components, libraries,…

Exciting Announcements from the  Laravel Framework

As a developer, I am always on the lookout for the “cutting edge” in tech, languages, or frameworks. Most recently I have been following the Laravel framework news, which is a modern and user-friendly PHP framework that I love working in. Following the end of Laracon 2023 (Laravel’s annual convention) there were several big announcements.…

National Auto Auction Association

National Auto Auction Association (NAAA)Custom WordPress Educational Membership Platform – 2022 Custom WordPress DevelopmentCustom PHP DevelopmentContent ManagementUI/UXBUSINESS GOALS National Auto Action Association (NAAA), as one part of its service to its members, provides members with industry events, safety awareness, and risk reduction training. NAAA came to OPG to support multiple business goals: NAAA saw a…

Eastern VetPath

Eastern VetPathCustom Built Veterinary Pathology Administrative Platform – 2022 Custom PHP Development & Advanced Data ModelingCustom Enterprise-Branded DesignAdvanced APIUI/UXBUSINESS GOALS Eastern VetPath (EVP) is owned and operated by ACVP board certified veterinary pathologists and provides thorough pathology reports to the veterinary clinics in northern VA/Southern MD/DC area. EVP approached OPG with a request to assist…

ORTHOWORLD

ORTHOWORLDEnterprise WordPress Platform Refactoring – 2023 Advanced APIEnterprise WordPressCustom PHP DevelopmentResponsive DesignBUSINESS GOALS ORTHOWORLD is a publishing company offering specialized educational content and advertising exclusively to orthopedic executives and their teams. ORTHOWORLD has been a long-standing client of OPG and they turned to OPG when they identified a need for the refactoring of their existing…

Automated Testing in Laravel

As software development becomes increasingly complex, testing has become a critical part of the software development process. Testing ensures that the application works as expected, and meets the project requirements. Without testing, it is difficult for a developer to make sure the application is working properly. One popular way to make testing as efficient as…

What Is Quality Management

Quality Management has four components: quality planning, quality, assurance, quality control and quality improvement. This article will analyze quality assurance and quality control. Before my many years in the quality assurance and quality control arenas, I assumed they were the same. I could not have been more wrong. I did not realize there are clear…

Where there’s a sale, there’s fraud.

Fraud and other cyber-crime incidents always spike around popular sales events – holidays, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Memorial Day are some of the best times of the year for fraudsters. People are busier than usual making personal arrangements and preparing for those blockbuster sales everyone loves. As a result, things get missed, corners get…