Implementing FHIR with Ruby on Rails
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a rapidly growing standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. In this blog post, we w...
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Notes on engineering, products, and the messy middle between idea and production.
Hire Scala Zio Akka Developer
If you are looking for a Senior Scala backend engineer, we’ve got one for you to start immediately. Senior Scala Developer with 9+ years of experience functi...
Read more →When to containerize your monolith?
“Just before you launch another VM instance with load balancing and before you start thinking microservices.” You have an application built. Now that it is b...
Read more →The Top Successful Mobile App Features
Nowadays, every business should have an online presence – especially in the form of a mobile app. Smartphone users are everywhere and are always on the looko...
Read more →The Key Elements of a Software Development Team
Every successful software product has an expert software development team behind it working hard to bring it to its best version. In order to succeed, a soft...
Read more →Why Use Ruby on Rails for Your Software Project and When?
Ruby on Rails is a development framework that has been subject to both immense popularity and numerous misconceptions over the past years. So, why use Ruby o...
Read more →Design Innovation: Going Beyond Industry Standards
There is a lot of thought that has to go into any sort of product, in order to ensure it is of the highest quality and performs properly. This is especially ...
Read more →Why Developing A Fully Functional Prototype Is A Smart First Step
When a new product is being designed, software or otherwise, it’s very rare that it can be an overnight success. This is where functional prototypes come in ...
Read more →Why Hybrid Mobile App Development Can Upscale Your Business
Upscaling their business is, quite naturally, the goal for any entrepreneur. By the end of this article, you will have all the insight necessary to understan...
Read more →Start-Ups And Offshore Software Development: A Match Made In Financial Heaven
Developing an outstanding software product can be a costly endeavor, especially for a start-up. Read this article to find out why start-ups and offshore soft...
Read more →Design Principles For A Successful Software Product
There is a lot of creative liberty when it comes to developing an appealing software product for your business, but it does also have some fundamental rules ...
Read more →What are the Benefits of Outsourcing Software Development
Are you a small business or start-up in need of some amazing software? Read on to find out more about the benefits of outsourcing!
Read more →Budget Sensitive Solutions For Your Business Software Needs
You want the best business software, but you’re on a reduced budget? Read on to learn about some budget sensitive solutions for your software needs!
Read more →Busting The Myths Of Offshore Software Development
Offshore software development is surrounded by many myths and prejudices. Read on to learn more about the true characteristics of offshore software!
Read more →How To Know If You And Your Dev Shop Are The Perfect Match
Are you searching for the best dev shop for your software product development? Check out this article to see what you should be on the lookout for!
Read more →#SheCodes: 5 International Women Who Made Coding History
Coding isn’t necessarily a man’s game. Don’t believe us? Here are 5 international women in coding history!
Read more →The Rise Of Quality And Reliability In Non-US Developers
Offshore development of business software is becoming a more and more popular activity between companies. Read on to find out why!
Read more →Jennifer Durkin Shares How Idyllic Software Team Is Driven to Transform the Consumer Support Realm through Technology
Based in Boulder, Colorado, Idyllic Software, founded in 2010, is reputed for offering reliable mobile application development services. The unique web appli...
Read more →Idyllic Software Secures a Leading Position at GoodFirms amongst the Top Mobile App Service Providers in Boulder
GoodFirms listed Idyllic Software amongst the best Boulder app developers for developing high-quality mobile apps. Delivering Quality Products & Services: Ba...
Read more →Why Will You Never Work with a Project Manager at Idyllic
Any job title suffixed with the word manager means: “Manage something that is unmanageable.” You need one if you have an unmanageable team, you want to have ...
Read more →Why will we NOT have an HR department ever?
We recently realized that we do not have an HR department in our organization for a reason. Thank you to the young, smart and very talented HR professional w...
Read more →Why is start-up hiring so difficult?
Ask any Start-up CEO or founder, and chances there they’ll all tell you the same thing: Recruiting is hard. Every business wants the most intelligent, dedica...
Read more →UX Surgeries — Interesting Differences in B2B v/s B2C World
User experience design has really seeped deep into both enterprise and the consumer digital world. This has resulted in some interesting observations in term...
Read more →Role Playing in User Experience Design — A Real Case Study
Very recently, we were designing a mobile app. for NBA fans to help them order food inside a stadium. One of the key aspects of the ordering experience was t...
Read more →Reasons why Perception Management is important
The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others Is managing perception really that important? ...
Read more →Myth buster – Who works for a STARTUP!
Once out of college, everyone wants to get hired in a big company. Well…almost everyone! A handful rich and fortunate guys decide to have their own venture o...
Read more →CQRS and Event Sourcing at Idyllic
Our journey into microservices has led our teams to think more about building highly available and resilient software. A lot of this has been relat...
Read more →4 important concepts any front end developer should know
Note: I picked these 4 concepts because I feel they would build a strong foundation of understanding for you and it is entirely my opinion and I also underst...
Read more →Why Will You Never Work with a Project Manager at Idyllic
Any job title suffixed with the word manager means: “Manage something that is unmanageable.” You need one if you have an unmanageable team, you want to have ...
Read more →Why will we NOT have an HR department ever?
We recently realized that we do not have an HR department in our organization for a reason. Thank you to the young, smart and very talented HR professional w...
Read more →Why we use Twitter Bootstrap
Bootstrap is another buzzword just like HTML5, CSS3 & Node.js & DHTML (if any of you even remember DHTML) & it undoubtedly...
Read more →What Is Included in an MVP?
What should your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) be comprised of? This is a million dollar question in itself. Instead of talking subjectively, let’s ...
Read more →Use of Amazon SES in Rails App to Send emails
What is Amazon SES? Amazon SES is an email platform that provides an easy, cost-effective way to send and receive email using your own email addresses and do...
Read more →Summon the Warrior in you on this World Entrepreneurship Day
Entrepreneurs do deserve a day dedicated to them. Entrepreneurs not only build for themselves, but they are the true pioneers of bringing in change. At times...
Read more →Start your company with an offshore vacation
How would it be to start your company with a vacation? Sounds great right? But, you are saving every penny to start your dream venture. You don’t w...
Read more →SETUP SIMPLE WEBSITE USING NODE.JS, EXPRESS, NUNJUCKS, GULP & NODEMON
Hello developers, before we start integration of all our components, let’s have a quick review of the below things. Node.js Node.js is a server side jav...
Read more →Require.js with Rails
If you know what require.js does and Ruby on Rails is your thing, then you have come to the right place. If not, I encourage you to read up on foll...
Read more →Native Data-binding using JavaScript with observe
We have always loved using MV\* frameworks for data-binding. Well, we have our reasons. There was never an easy way to set event listeners on RAW objects and...
Read more →Modularizing JavaScript with Browserify
What is browserify? If you have ever written any custom Node.js modules, getting started with Browserify will be a walk in the park. Browserify enables us to...
Read more →Leveraging Lean Analytics with Social Media Monitoring
It turns out the old adage “if you build it, they will come,” shouldn’t always apply to starting a business, or at least that’s what entrepreneur Alistair Cr...
Read more →Important considerations before Hiring a Ruby on Rails Developer
I’ve been working on Ruby on Rails for over 3 and half years now and I’ve been interviewed by many companies both big and small. There have been occasions wh...
Read more →@import-once in LESSCSS, way handier!
I would admit that I started playing around with SASS way before my first encounter with LESS. By no means was I under-impressed with what SASS could let me ...
Read more →IE’S FAILURE DUE TO A SELECTOR LIMIT
At Idyllic Software we do a lot of Ruby on Rails work. I was recently working on a Rails app which dealt with a lot of views (H...
Read more →How Your MVP Helps you Raise Funds for Your Startup
Eric Ries defined Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as “The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amo...
Read more →How Responsive Web Design Helps Bring Your Businesses Mobile
Having a Mobile presence for your business has become a necessity. The methods you choose to bring your business mobile is entirely up to you. Recent surveys...
Read more →File to import not found or unreadable: compass/reset
If you are seeing this error on starting rails 3.x application, Change the below in your gem file gem ‘compass’,:git =\> “git://github.com/chriseppstein/comp...
Read more →Experimental emergence – A hale and hearty, living idea
There are thousands of software consulting and services company – so why add one more to the mix in such a matured industry? This was the first question that...
Read more →Endless page using jQuery and will_paginate
We all know that rendering all the data at once hampers the application’s performance and for that purpose we use pagination so that we can render sets of da...
Read more →eCommerce Shopping Cart — # of items or total cost of the cart?
Shopping cart has become the name of the game for e-commerce websites like Amazon, Flipkart, or for any e-retailer that you can think of. It has become a com...
Read more →CSS Specificity – Survival of the fittest
Most of us have learnt CSS by trial & error & that includes me, it only takes minor success to develop strong interest in what we work on daily basis. Howeve...
Read more →Celebrating womanhood: Top 3 motivating women entrepreneurs
Who said it’s a man’s world alone? Gone are the days when men ruled the world. It is the era of the woman. According to the statistics provided by the U.S. b...
Read more →Careers page is the next most important page on website
When we started to think of designing our careers home page, we were wondering if we could identify a few good ones. To our surprise we could not find one. W...
Read more →5 easy-to-do no-cost-involved tactics to boost your SEO
The term SEO or Search Engine Optimization is itself a heavy term for small businesses to understand and invest time and money. However it is as essential as...
Read more →Why the first business fails – Part 2
6.Misjudging the runway Once you put your startup on runway, you have to make sure that it takes off. It’s not just about the time and money you have. You al...
Read more →Why should businesses care about microservices?
You have an awesome software team. They are following agile practices so that you can adopt change. But how many times was your developme...
Read more →Why first business fails?
We have been working with startups since 2009. As it would be, we have witnessed many success stories and business failures, some of those we worked with, so...
Read more →Why did I quit Hubspot
Hubspot promotes itself as an Inbound marketing tool. Before we dive deeper, we need to understand what Inbound marketing is. Inbound marketing is...
Read more →USER INTERFACE DESIGN IS WHERE S.U.C.C.E.S.S BEGINS
Inspired from article by – Whitney Hess [http://whitneyhess.com](http://whitneyhess.com) Every one knows how important user interface design is. But oft...
Read more →To Share or Not to Share – PS4 VS XBox One
Sharing is caring. It has been taught to us since childhood and we totally believe it. However, in the gaming world, sharing has not been so legally favored....
Read more →There is always someone who can do it cheaper….Be wary
Getting quotes from market is always a good idea. However sometimes, you get quotes which are far too low than what you have got from others. I recently got ...
Read more →Technology Heterogeneity and Microservices
Developers are always akin to learning new technologies and are on a lookout to employ cutting edge technologies on projects that they are working on. The ch...
Read more →Some Flexbox basics – CSS tricks
Initially aligning block level elements besides one another to achieve multiple column layouts was a bit tedious,but then Float property was introduced so as...
Read more →Silver Bullet – The Problem
We’re working on a very interesting scheduling application MVP which was initially focused on one of the B2C industry. As we began the work, our customer ask...
Read more →Microservices at Idyllic
Over the last one and a half years we’ve been constantly working towards finding newer ways to build more resilient software, faster. And, we’ve found that t...
Read more →LEAN HOLLYWOOD – IRON MAN
Tony Stak is the chairman of Stark Industries. He is the Iron Man. That suit of Iron Man…that was built by Tony himself. Well that suit wasn’t the same alway...
Read more →How to hire the right CTO for your Startup?
Whether you are a tech startup or a general business startup, hiring a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) has become one of the mandates to push the business ahe...
Read more →GIT: HOW TO CHANGE LAST COMMIT MESSAGE IF PUSHED BY MISTAKE
git reset –soft HEAD^ git commit -m “The message you wanted to use” git push -f
Read more →FILE TO IMPORT NOT FOUND OR UNREADABLE: COMPASS/RESET
If you are seeing this error on starting rails 3.x application, Change the below in your gem file gem ‘compass’,:git =\> “git://github.com/chriseppstein/comp...
Read more →CHOOSING A RIGHT GEM FOR YOUR ADMIN SECTION
Admin sections are a part of most applications that one builds. Usually we lookup to active\_admin for a quick solution. It is pretty straight forward when y...
Read more →CAPACITY: The biggest challenge for high growth companies
So you’ve just gotten 3M in funding. Is that good news? Here are the hypothetical terms of getting funding: You get your first 400K right now. That’s good ne...
Read more →BEFORE YOU BUILD YOUR PRODUCT, THINK HOW WILL YOU SELL IT.
A lot of client with great ideas come to us and talk to us about building their product. Of course some of these ideas are very good. However, they never thi...
Read more →5 ways we keep our communications entangled
Ours is a time of technology, an era of non-verbal communication and the age of texting, tweeting, status updates and even, the now rudimentary email. Alrigh...
Read more →Patent Wars Get Personal – The Silencing of Maya
The Silencing of Maya – An infographic by the team at Idyllic Software Development Company Support Maya and Embed this graphic on your site: Copy and Pa...
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