Seth Godin once said “If it gets to the RFP stage, you lost.”
Today I have received a plight decline for a proposal I have never sent, I will include an extract of an e-mail correspondence at the end.
Responding RFPs is a futile exercise for a company like ours. People who send them are not interested [...]

Database-as-a-service (DaaS) is a new emerging service that hosts databases in the cloud, and a viable option for businesses developing bespoke web based applications.
What are the benefits? You do not need an upfront investment into software and infrastructure. Web based access for configuration, maintenance and monitoring. Application can access data [...]

We run a competition at Magic Web: post an idea for a web based app to win a prize!

Work-life balance is nonsense - you can’t have it all - says a well known contemporary “philosopher of everyday life” Alain de Botton in his presentation: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success. And I agree with him. We are all looking to achieve that balance, and there seems to be plenty [...]

When a company and business embark on a software / web development project for any purpose whatsoever, there are usually only two options to choose from: outsourcing or hiring in-house.

On the surface, hiring an in-house team or individual to do the work is the more convenient option. But there is an extremely lengthy list [...]

Think of the possibilities. Software written specifically for you to make your life easier. No longer would you have to figure out how to adapt a program to do what you want it to do and sift through all the applications that are not relevant to YOU. No longer would you have [...]

Is it for me or just for others?
A few years ago high-quality and custom-made software was the privilege of only large-scale organizations willing to invest towering amounts of resources in their software projects, but fortunately that’s no longer the case. Ranging from individuals to marketing firms and [...]

C# is a programming language and part of the .NET initiative. The latest version of the language (C# 4.0) was released by Microsoft in April 2010. The name of the language is pronounced see sharp and the general interpretation of the name is enhanced C++ (which, in turn, meant enhanced C). [...]

There are order-of-magnitude differences among programmers: Productivity Variations Among Software Developers and Teams: The Origin of “10x”
It takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
“there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order [...]

Creating a static web site is much easier than creating a blog, a forum or a social media site, because sites that require a lot of interactivity need programming work to be done. Even if you buy and install an out-of-the-box script, it means someone somewhere has done all the programming work for you. You’ll [...]