The month of March brings us St. Patrick’s Day and the first day of Spring, but for many March is all about March Madness and college basketball! It’s an exciting time for those rooting for their favorite college basketball team to attend the “Big Dance” and get the chance to be a contender in the…
In February, we celebrated Valentine’s Day and here at OPG, we often feel like we’re doing Cupid’s work. Okay, so we’re not actually making “love” connections but we are in the connection business…we connect our clients with other businesses, systems, databases, and anything else that can be dreamed up. Here are some of the connections…
If done wisely and with cost-accounting in mind, expanding your product offerings can be a great way to increase revenue, build your brand, meet the changing needs of your customer, be competitive, and take advantage of opportunities in different market sectors. Whether you’re expanding your product line (variations of your existing product) or creating a…
Google wants a safer and more secure web and hopes one day (soon) that every single website page will be served by HTTPS. Since 2014, when Google made HTTPS a small positive signal for search rankings, Google has been taking steps to help push websites toward HTTPS and in January 2017 they will take another.…
We always knew that one of our developers, Brandon, was a great guy. Now, he has proved it publically. Brandon wrote a very awesome tool to allow developers of the Laravel 5 framework to easily design their data model in MySQL Workbench and export it to standards compliant Larvel 5 migration files. This tool saves…
Open Professional Group is seeking junior, mid-level and senior PHP developers to add to its growing staff of amazing humans! If you know your PHP like a lumberjack knows his chainsaw, we may have a career for you. We have needs in all levels of LAMP stack web application development skillset. Local or remote. Tall…
Open Professional Group is seeking entry level software quality assurance and testing staff to add to it’s awesome team! If you have an interest in technology and an amazing attnetion to detail, we may have a career for you. We’ll train the right candidate so if you are just getting started as a developer, system…
While surfing the internet one day I noticed a common issue on some blogs I frequent, and that issue was broken links. There were times that I found myself reading an interesting article that would reference a different article or webpage, but when I clicked the link there was nothing there. Not only can that…
We Think So. That’s Why We Switched to Ting. Here at Open Professional Group, keeping our clients happy is our number one goal. As a web and mobile software development company, we live on the Internet. When we discovered that our Internet Service Provider (ISP) was unable to keep up with our needs, we went…
Recently, a colleague of mine asked me “How do you test software repeatedly and still see the software differently?”. Being a Quality Assurance Tester for numerous years, I found this question to be simple yet perplexing and thought about it often. I have to admit that in life, I do not always think outside the…
