When is your app ready?

When is your app ready?

This old mantra still does the rounds: Release early, release often! This doesn’t give you the complete picture. When I started creating my apps and products, I was careful. I feared that something would break, data would be lost, and my reputation would be ruined. My first software job was in a company that serviced…

What is a Thin Affiliate Site?

In their ever continuing efforts to fight spam, Google coined the phrase thin affiliate to describe a site offering only affiliate links and no value to a user. Being labeled a thin affiliate site will mean very little to no traffic from Google, but what criteria does Google use to filter out these sites, how do they do it and how can you prevent this happening to you?

Magento eCommerce – Bloated or Brilliant?

Magento eCommerce took the open source software world by storm when it officially launched on March 31st 2008. Many developers, including myself, jumped on board and started using it. While the feature set and branding is unquestionably great what is it actually like to work with?
Read on as we take a look at the code, architecture, complexity, hosting issues and the goals that an open source eCommerce system should strive to achieve.