TECHNOLOGIES
Technologies & Platforms
Over the years, we've worked with a myriad of different technologies and platforms. We are especially experienced with those highlighted below.
CMS & eCommerce
Episerver is one of the best .NET-based CMS platforms in existence. Built on top of .NET, and embracing .NET best practices and methodologies, it provides an extremely stable and robust foundation that can be used for the most demanding applications.
Shopify provides a simple and cost effective platform to sell things online. Because Shopify is a SaaS (Software as a Service), there are no additional server or hosting costs to worry about (CDN support is also built in!). Implementation times are typically very rapid, and the flexibility of the liquid templating engine is incredible.
Jekyll makes it incredibly easy and cheap to setup and maintain static sites. The software itself is completely free, and hosting can also be free under certain circumstances. Because Jekyll generates static HTML, it's incredibly fast and efficient. Perfect for micro sites and blogs. Believe it or not, this site is actually built using Jekyll :)
Front-End Libraries & Frameworks
Light-weight, fast, and built for the modern web. Foundation is a fantastic responsive HTML framework that is our go to for all new projects. As a side note, this site is built using Foundation :)
The venerable Twitter Bootstrap is still a great choice for projects where legacy browser support is important. The original "grid system" HTML framework.
Perfect for injecting a JSON response from an API into HTML. Light-weight, flexible and super fast.
One of the most important pieces of technology to happen to the Web. Although many newer browsers now support many of jQuery's features in native JavaScript, it's still an excellent resource to keep in your toolkit.
Why write vanilla CSS when you can use an extension language like Sass? Makes CSS maintenance far easier and less error prone.
Using Browsersync changes the way developers work with their code. A real time saver.
Build Systems, Package Managers, Source Code Management
Visual Studio has come a long way since it's inception. It's now extremely standards compliant, and even runs on Linux and Mac OS X!
Download JavaScript packages with ease, essential in a modern build system.
Download HTML frameworks, JavaScript libraries, anything really. Very handy as part of a modern build system.
Gulp rocks! Automate your build tasks, save time, be more productive.
Nuget changed .NET development. Supremely important for modern solutions.
Nothing else compares to git, we've tried them all CVS, SVN, TFS, but git still reigns supreme!
API Development
Using Postman we can rapidly build, test and validate APIs. Incredible tool for any API builder.
Great test tool for SOAP based services. It's been around forever and is very mature.
How will an API perform under load? Let's find out shall we. Validates API infrastructure, performance and response times.
Analytics
One of the best analytics platforms around. It also happens to be free. Everyone should be using it.
Awesome analytics foundation. Easily plugs into other platforms so you can do more with your analytics data.
What are specific users up to? This SaaS analytics platform lets you do more with the data you've collected.