by Dave McKillen | May 18, 2023 | Laravel
Laravel is a popular open-source PHP framework that is widely used for web application development. Here are some advantages of building your software on Laravel: 1. Rapid Development: Laravel provides a number of pre-built functionalities, such as...
by Dave McKillen | May 4, 2023 | Mobile Responsive, Utah application development
So you have a product or service and feel like it’s time to build your application. You’re thinking, cool new phone app right? Well … maybe wrong actually. As technology continues to advance, the world is becoming increasingly mobile. More people than ever are...
by Dave McKillen | May 4, 2023 | Lifestyle and Wellness
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, many workers are concerned about the potential impact on their job security. While it’s true that some jobs may be at risk of automation, there are still several types of college degrees that are less likely...
by Dave McKillen | May 3, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already having a significant impact on many industries, including web development. While it is difficult to predict the exact ways in which AI will affect WordPress and Laravel in the next 10 years, here are some potential ways in which...
by Dave McKillen | May 2, 2023 | Giving Back, Irish heritage
I think it’s really important to try to go back to our roots and support the youngsters coming up behind us. An old friend Tim from Ireland asked me to jump on a call with his classroom. They asked me random questions everything from how to start a business to...
by Dave McKillen | May 4, 2021 | CRM
I suppose the point of this quicky post is to demonstrate that you don’t need to spend an arm and a leg to get a full leads-to-CRM pipeline set up for your clients (or your own company). Zapier has done a pretty good job at taking advantage of the different...
by Chris Walke | May 1, 2021 | Gadgets 'n Gifts, Lifestyle and Wellness, User experience
I went looking for a power bank because of a poor experience on a recent backpacking trip. On that, I carried my old power brick, only to discover it would only partially recharge my iPhone 12 Pro Max. Yes, I realize that camping should be for relaxing and enjoying...
by Dave McKillen | Jun 17, 2019 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
Hey this is super easy to use, clean, and best of all free! (to an extent). If you are looking for a simple way of providing your clients with a list of your week availability without all the back and forth of time guessing, then this is the tool for you. You point...
by Dave McKillen | Jun 17, 2019 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
Chris actually uses this one a lot more than I do but the peace of mind is what’s great about this. We have some clients who’s site just can’t go down for any serious length of time. Up Time Robot alerts you if the site is down giving you valuable...
by Dave McKillen | Jun 16, 2019 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
This ones been around for a while but I had a (small agency) client tell me the other day that they were in need of something like this but didn’t know of it’s existence. So here it is! Google’s Pagespeed Insights is the gold standard when it comes...
by Dave McKillen | Jun 15, 2019 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
WP Engine are a solid hosting choice frankly and we aren’t getting paid to say that (yet?). But they also provide a very nice speed summary tool for your WordPress sites, providing suggestions as to what you might do to improve things if the site is running...
by Dave McKillen | Jun 14, 2019 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
If you are looking to very quickly check if a site has been hacked then this is the way to do it. Enter a URL and boom! you will get a quick info summary of the (hopefully) good news. They check websites built in all programming languages, such as PHP, .NET, Java,...
by Dave McKillen | Jun 13, 2019 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
Some clients are self-admittedly not exactly tech geniuses and so it’s not always the best thing to believe them on the hosting end of things. https://www.whoishostingthis.com/ allows you to get the low down on the host, IP addresses, name servers and more all...
by Dave McKillen | Jun 12, 2019 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
Builtwith.com is just a super simple little tool that enables to you to immediately get the lowdown on what a site is “built with”. It provides a pretty detailed list of the different techs used. Nothing fancy but I personally use the thing at least once a...
by Dave McKillen | Jun 11, 2019 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
So we’ve been asked a few times at this point to create an all encompassing analytics dashboard that pulls all social, inbound etc. analytics into one easy to process interface. We were about to look into what would be involved in consuming the plethora of...
by Dave McKillen | Jun 10, 2019 | Gadgets 'n Gifts
Tr.im is a pretty neat and simple little URL shortener in that it has a nice simple look and feel about it. You can quickly and easily sign up for a free account, choose your own short URL (assuming it’s not taken) and instantly start tracking some basic...
by Dave McKillen | Jun 6, 2019 | Project Management, WordPress Contractors
I thought this was an interesting set of stats provided by the insanely talented folks at Net magazine. Turns out personality clashes and understanding roles can throw a wrench in the works. Ultimately though these are both communication related and THAT doesn’t...
by Jon Noel | May 28, 2019 | CMS, Content, Custom WordPress, WordPress Contractors
WordPress has been around for a LOOONG time at this point and to date it seems to have pretty much stolen the limelight for end-user friendly content management systems. Well today we are going to take a look at the pretty awesome Craft CMS. Let us weigh in how and...
