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API Summit Conference Takeaway

API Summit Conference Takeaway

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We recently attended the API Inspection Summit in Galveston, Texas to demonstrate our new Inspection App Product, Spotter. It was awesome! The convention center was right on the Gulf coast, and the water was beautiful.The conference was packed—there was a huge turnout, every vendor booth was filled, [...]
Responsive Design: Should You Make the Switch?

Responsive Design: Should You Make the Switch?

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Accessing the web through mobile devices is only getting more and more popular. Go ahead—get on your phone and check your site (chances are you’re already on a smartphone, so we’ll wait.) If it isn’t fitting to the screen, you don&rsquo [...]
Putting the “Kick” Into Kickoff Workshops

Putting the “Kick” Into Kickoff Workshops

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Kickoff workshops are one of the most important parts of the Envoc Experience. We decided to ditch stale, boring, presentation-style meetings and replace them with fun, collaborative, get-up-out-your-seat activities that pull the team together and launch a project with energy and focus. Get your thinking caps on, people! [...]
How Hard is it to Build an App?

How Hard is it to Build an App?

Written by Brian Rigsby on

Seemingly simple software and app development projects often pose many unexplored questions and problems. Even the most basic software solutions may have dozens of decisions behind them. In this post, we’ll take you through an example of how an "easy" task actually plays out in the development [...]
Competitors: With Whom do we Compete?

Competitors: With Whom do we Compete?

Written by Calvin Fabre on

We Believe in More Pie Business Schools tell us to study them. “Study your competitors, try to overcome them, try to do one or two things better than them so as to gain market share,” they preach. This is a "scarcity thinking" mentality. That is, we believe there [...]
Why Custom Software is Better

Why Custom Software is Better

Written by Calvin Fabre on

Yell at your software? You’re not alone. If you’re a modern professional, chances are you use software every day to help with those daily tasks that keep your business running. Why? Because it helps you stay organized. It’s fast and efficient, gives you quick [...]
Trust Your Designer

Trust Your Designer

Written by Christine Maggi on

The thought of trusting your project's entire visual identity with a professional graphic, web, or UX designer can be scary for someone who has never worked with one. This post was written to ease your anxiety and help you understand what's going on behind those trendy, thick-rimmed [...]
Why We Don’t Offshore and Why You Shouldn’t Either

Why We Don’t Offshore and Why You Shouldn’t Either

Written by Calvin Fabre on

Every week, we receive multiple calls from offshore companies offering software development services for as low as $11 an hour. Does the huge profit margin seem tempting? Maybe—but we turn them down every time. Here's a few reasons why: We Can't Guarantee the Work Envoc builds relationships [...]
Late: Technical Debt Interest Payment

Late: Technical Debt Interest Payment

Written by Calvin Fabre on

Your Technical Interest Payment is due If you have ever been involved in the development of something as simple as a Microsoft Excel macro, as normal as a public-facing website or portal, or been a part of a full-blown enterprise software application, you are most-probably guilty of ringing up &ldquo [...]

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