Business & Marketing
11 New Funding Options for App Development
Mobile application development continues to be one of the hottest areas for investment capital. Here is a list of recent funding events in mobile application development. The events occur from September to November. Included are announcements for ...
Top 4 SEO Web Testing Tools
The new release of a website requires all sorts of testing — from security testing to load testing to testing the functionality of transactional elements. But what about search engine optimization testing? Many feature releases and design changes ...
6 Ways Developers Win the SEO Click
Search engine optimization doesn't end with the battle for ranking position. With thumbnail images, social mentions, reviews, news, shopping, maps, paid ads and more clamoring for attention on search results pages, ecommerce sites need to show off...
13 Mobile-App Marketplaces
The migration to cloud computing is creating new opportunities for developers to earn money by creating applications, extensions, and add-ons. Many cloud platforms provide marketplaces for developers to sell their apps. The list below is leadin...
Funding Sources for Application Developers
Looking for money to fund your application development? A plethora of funding sources exists, especially if your application is in a hot area, such as cloud computing or mobile. Following are some funding sources and what the funders are looking f...
20 Top Facebook App Developers
Zynga is a developer — a very successful developer — of social gaming apps for Facebook. Nearly 280 million monthly users play Zynga’s games. But Zynga is not the only developer finding an audience on Facebook. Here is a list of the top 20 develo...
Peachtree Software Architect on API, SDK
Sage Peachtree's small-business accounting package offers two APIs for developers. One of them taps into a relational database, and we spoke with ...
How to Mitigate Cloud-Hosting Downtime
The recent hosting outage from Amazon Web Services affected hundreds of websites and millions of consumers. The April 2011 crash — explained here in Bloomberg BusinessWeek — prompted many companies to reexamine their reliance on cloud computing a...
31 Twitter Tools for Designers and Developers
With a simple "Follow Me" button or through a display of tweets on a web page, businesses are using Twitter to engage customers. Twitter provides the ability to offer proactive customer service, to promote goods and services, and to interact with ...
10 Web Developers You Must Follow on Twitter
Every industry has its leaders — individuals whose efforts, experience, and influence often guide the collective field. Staying in lock step with these industry gurus can help your work. In this post, you'll find my list of must-follow web develo...
Developer Spotlight: Brian Getting of Terra Firma Design
Editor’s Note: “Developer Spotlight” is a series where we ask web developers about the ecommerce platforms they prefer to develop in, and why. Brian Getting is executive director at Terra Firma Design and Consulting and has been a developer for a...
The Case Against Developing in Open Source Software
Developing an ecommerce site using open source software may be very attractive on the surface. Open source software can usually be uber-customized, allowing developers to implement features as they are needed. Open source software frequently advan...
10 Upcoming Developer and Designer Events
There are hundreds of designer and developer conferences, panels and trainings. Plan ahead and attend some of these events so you can stay current on the latest in programming languages, best practices and network with other developers and designe...
4 Questions You Must Ask Prospective Clients
Developing great websites is almost as much about communicating with clients as it is about writing code. So it is important to understand what is motivating a prospective client to build a new site or renovate a current one before we start coding...
Four Time Management Tips for the Freelance Web Developer
Freelance work is cyclical. Sometimes you're not too busy. Sometimes you're just plain too busy. But there are time management techniques that can help even out these cycles and make it possible to get more work done. Good time management is actu...
Write to Promote
Writing web design and development articles can help ecommerce web developers attract new clients and projects. Whether you like working with ecommerce entrepreneurs, mid-sized ventures, or as part of a team or agency developing for a large enter...
Develop Ecommerce Themes and Extensions to Earn Extra Income
Freelance web developers often experience dramatic swings in income as they cycle through projects. One month, a developer might be working on three projects at once, billing dozens and dozens of hours, only to have nothing to do and no income th...
Surviving A Web Development Job Interview
Web development interviews can be a bizarre combination of coding tests, bravado, and psychoanalysis. Even minor sidesteps can be the difference between getting a great job or heading back to your favorite job board. In many fields, potential e...
Five Invoicing Tools for the Ecommerce Web Developer
It is relatively common to find a web developer that also has graphic design skills, or to find font-end developers that also dabble in server-side scripting, but web developers that also have professional accounting experience are a rare breed. ...
NetSuite Exec on Development Opportunities
NetSuite is a pioneering software-as-a-service ecommerce platform. The company was launched in 1998 as NetLedger, an accounting package. It later c...