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…
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…
MEAN – is more than a simple rearrangement of acronym letters in a new stack name. Understanding the role each technology plays behind each letter is crucial when moving from LAMP to MEAN for web development. Whether you’re looking for consolidation of technologies or to leverage in-house JavaScript expertise, the MEAN stack can offer a…
I came upon coding almost 18 years ago. It wasn’t a big part of my life then, but it enticed me. I wanted to learn. Learn the ins and outs and start to create. I had wild ideas but I didn’t have the right knowledge to get my ideas into the world. The little bug…
Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Having a great user interface can be the difference between having a successful product and having a product that fails. When looking to create a user interface, you want to be sure that the interface is easy to use and also engages the user/customer and directs…
Doc Holliday, Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy, Jesse James, and Billy the Kid. Each one immortalized in a seemingly endless number of films, songs, folklore, and even video games. In their time they were considered public enemy #1, today they’re often spoken of as heroes and trailblazers. These notorious outlaws are what turned the Wild…
TIOBE (the software quality company), recently published its index from June 2015 (www.TIOBE.com). This index details the most popular programming languages over the last year. Surprisingly, or maybe not, JavaScript had the fastest rise of use with an increase of more than 17% over the previous year. This makes it the “Program Language of the…
