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Should You Develop an MVP for Your App Idea?

Turning your idea into a viable prototype is an exciting endeavor. With software, development costs are extremely high until you start generating revenue. Because you can't generate revenue until the application is finished, many entrepreneurs start with a minimum...

Hiring: CakePHP Developer / Team Lead

About the Job We are currently looking for a full-time CakePHP developer that has strong PHP and CakePHP 3 skills. Requirements CakePHP Development in versions 2 and 3 PHP (exp w/ closures, iterators, generators, namespaces, traits, and interfaces) Unit Testing (TDD)...

How to Maintain Your Discipline When You Work From Home

  More and more Americans work from home instead of traveling each day to an office. Whether you're an entrepreneur who has a home-based business or a corporate employee who logs into a workstation from your computer, it can be extremely easy to become...

Tips for Adopting Agile Software Development

An ever-increasing consumer demand for digital products and services causes company leaders to recognize technology for what it is: a decisive, if not game-changing, element of their business strategies. The existing IT organizational structures of few businesses,...

Newly Released Lynda Course on TDD and PHPUnit

Lynda.com is a website that provides online training courses in a variety of subject materials. I've been honored to work with them on a few different courses at this point covering both PHP and Ember.js. The latest one went up earlier this month, it covers some of...

Newly Released Lynda Course on Ember.js

Lynda.com just released a new video course authored by Loadsys Web Developer, Justin Yost. In this course, Justin covers the essentials of working with and using the popular JavaScript Front End Framework Ember.js. Here is just one sample of what you will learn in...

Newly Released Lynda Course on PHP Advanced Topics

Lynda.com just released a new video course authored by Loadsys Web Developer, Justin Yost. In this course, Justin covers a grab bag of advanced PHP concepts, such as Namespaces and Closures to Generators and Interfaces. Here is just one sample of what you will learn...

Ember.js Field Validation Server Side Before Submit

Ember Data, coupled with JSON API does a great job of returning validation errors from the server to display to the user. Sometimes however, you need to validate the field data before submitting the entire record. There are some good plugins to handle client side...

Many-to-Many Relationships with Ember CLI Mirage

Ember.js and Ember Data, with their convention over configuration mindset, and JSON API make it easy to set up and manage many-to-many relationships between models. At the database and API layers, the set up can be more complex. This becomes apparent when using Ember...

Hiring: CakePHP Developer (Jr or Sr)

About the Job We are currently looking for a full-time CakePHP developer that has strong PHP and CakePHP 3 skills. Requirements CakePHP Development in versions 2 and 3 PHP (exp w/ closures, iterators, generators, namespaces, traits, and interfaces) Unit Testing (TDD)...

Writing Unit Tests for More Accurate and Valuable Feedback

Unit tests are a standard part of the Loadsys workflow. Testing provides developers and our clients assurance that our code is as bug free as possible and it meets the requirements. When you first start writing tests, it is a real challenge to write tests that are...