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What’s in it for you to upgrade your PHP system?

June 13, 2019

What’s in it for you to upgrade your PHP system?

Like all technology, the programming language PHP continues to evolve and see new changes. A few months ago, we discussed in one of our blog posts why we program with PHP and the benefits of using a scripting language since the...

4 reasons why we're continuing to program in PHP

February 22, 2019

4 reasons why we're continuing to program in PHP

DevDigital has been working around the clock to upgrade its PHP servers and migrating those upgrades for 500 customer websites. To some, PHP (formally an acronym that stood for personal home page, but now stands for hypertext preprocessor) might...

Changing the game: Healthcare Industry

December 21, 2018

Changing the game: Healthcare Industry

Change is imminent in all aspects of life thanks to technology. No matter what avenue of life you’re in, the developments of technology have somehow had an impact on your life in one way or another. Some are minor (the ability to call...

Escape Game kiosks helping to create efficiency with customers

November 1, 2018

Escape Game kiosks helping to create efficiency with customers

The Escape Game is quickly becoming America’s favorite real-life, puzzle-solving experience, with a variety of platforms for thrill-seekers to choose from. The popularity of the escape room phenomenon has been exploding over the past couple of...

DevDigital's Work Enables Automatic Billing For Smartphones

May 30, 2018

DevDigital's Work Enables Automatic Billing For Smartphones

We were thrilled to work with Time Miner to launch their app that is revolutionizing the way professionals bill their clients for their time used with a smartphone to talk and to text. Before this app, professional would have to go through the...

Facebook Data Leak and GDPR

May 16, 2018

Facebook Data Leak and GDPR

Last month, the social media giant, Facebook, notified 87 million of its users that their personal data had been breached. These users personal information was accessed by Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining firm. Their plan of attack was through the...

The Tech Behind Stephen Hawking

March 16, 2018

The Tech Behind Stephen Hawking

  On March 14, 2018, the world lost Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds of our time. Hawking explained the universe to the masses and pioneered many discoveries concerning quantum gravity, general relativity, and cosmology. Although Stephen...

DevDigital Is Recognized In The Top 10 LMS Providers

February 23, 2018

DevDigital Is Recognized In The Top 10 LMS Providers

Change is coming fast and furious within the online learning industry. From cloud-based software adoption to video, tablets, and massive online courses, new eLearning innovations have been hard to keep up with. Consider the following: The Learning...

Understanding Blockchain

February 5, 2018

Understanding Blockchain

Cryptocurrencies have continued to gain popularity over the past couple of years. Some popular cryptocurrencies that you may have heard about in the media are BitCoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Zcash and Ripple to name a few. Needless to say, there are...

eLearning Solutions are Exploding

January 15, 2018

eLearning Solutions are Exploding

Change is coming fast and furious within the online learning industry. From cloud-based software adoption to video, tablets, and massive online courses, new eLearning innovations have been hard to keep up with. Consider the following facts and...

Digital Technology Is More Than Marketing

January 1, 2018

Digital Technology Is More Than Marketing

When the word “Digital” is brought into a business discussion, it usually conjures up thoughts of marketing, e-commerce, and customer experiences.  However, there are much larger opportunities throughout the entire organization that can benefit...

Reducing Software Defect

December 27, 2017

Reducing Software Defect

Software defect reduction is essential for eliminating future time-consuming work on fixing the defect as opposed to creating new development or new product. The upfront cost of eliminating the chance of defects is significant, but the cost of...

Crackin’ Down on Cybersecurity

December 27, 2017

Crackin’ Down on Cybersecurity

The new mafia of today is cybercriminals. It is important for us to know how they work so that we can better protect ourselves against their attacks. Predominantly, cybercriminals use ransomware for the majority of their attacks. In fact, ransomware...

Profit Sense

April 27, 2017

Profit Sense

Doug Tatum serves as a member of the Teaching Faculty at the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship at Florida State University. A few years ago, Doug asked his entrepreneurship class to vote for one of the following definitions of "Profit": Profit is...

Mobile Revolution

February 21, 2017

Mobile Revolution

According to StatCounter, the internet usage by mobile and tablet devices exceeded desktop worldwide for the first time in late 2016. Mobile and tablet devices accounted for 51.3% of Internet usage worldwide, compared to 48.7% by desktop. This...

LP PurposeBuilt

January 26, 2017

LP PurposeBuilt

DevDigital has worked with LP PurposeBuilt to create a website that clearly demonstrates the benefits and advantages of using their overlays. LP Building Products is a well-known company with a strong reputation. We worked with them to create a...

Glow Motion Shines At Grey Cup

December 23, 2016

Glow Motion Shines At Grey Cup

Our client, Glow Motion Technologies, recently created a memorable experience at Canada’s Grey Cup. During OneRepublic’s halftime performance, Glow Motion provided 35,000 wearable Ghostband wristbands to the crowd and 200 custom jackets to the...

Creating A Useful App

May 19, 2016

Creating A Useful App

As we’ve discussed in previous blog posts, apps are increasingly being developed for global use. As more companies choose to create apps, it is important to know what it takes to develop a useful app to keep users engaged and happy. In an article...

DevDigital's Involvement With LMS: MaxxContent

March 22, 2016

DevDigital's Involvement With LMS: MaxxContent

Due to its efficiency and cost effectiveness, tech-ed is rapidly growing, and Dr. Turner Nashe (IDS) and Peter Marcum (DevDigital) felt that prison inmates should also have the opportunity to expand their education. In 2015, MaxxContent was formed...

Your Data is Useless (without Visualization)

January 18, 2016

Your Data is Useless (without Visualization)

Howard Baldwin, the community editor for Data Driven Business at Forbes asks the question in a recent post, “How much is data worth?” He posits that those companies that are built on data seem to show an offset between their “actual market...

DevDigital Client is named #1 Best New Lifestyle App

October 23, 2015

DevDigital Client is named #1 Best New Lifestyle App

With more than 5,000 iPad apps released each week, it’s safe to say that the Mobile Application market is booming, and it’s tough to stand out from the competition. However, DevDigital is excited to announce that iTunes has deemed our client...

When Project Management Becomes Core to Organizational Performance

September 29, 2015

When Project Management Becomes Core to Organizational Performance

Project management software has continually evolved in order to keep up with the changing pace and expectations of today’s marketplace. Fortunately, technology is allowing project management software to gain sophistication, power and flexibility...

Play More, Fail More, Succeed More

September 28, 2015

Play More, Fail More, Succeed More

The Facts In April 2015, the Entertainment Software Association released its annual report on the video game industry, and announced that 155 million Americans play video games. Of those, the average age of a female video game player is 43, the...

Either Make Something New or Make Something Better

August 24, 2015

Either Make Something New or Make Something Better

Technology innovation comes in two basic variations; either you are making something new, or you are improving the process that creates a product or service to make it more efficient. In both cases, trimming waste is at the core of the value that is...

The New Wave of Software Development

January 6, 2015

The New Wave of Software Development

When we think of tech startups most of us still think of companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Uber--consumer facing platforms that require massive user adoption to work. And often still struggle for profits. While these startups grew fast, the...

Why Globalization is the Future of Technology Development

July 7, 2014

Why Globalization is the Future of Technology Development

When most people think of outsourcing, they think of Asian factories crammed full of underpaid workers doing dangerous work Americans abandoned a century ago. With that picture in mind, it makes sense that we have a negative view of outsourcing...

Why Are Functional Specifications So Important

May 22, 2014

Why Are Functional Specifications So Important

Unless this is your fourth or fifth trip down the road of developing software, more than likely all the complexities that go into professional software development aren’t your areas of expertise. Don’t feel bad, you’re certainly not alone. If...

Building Something is Only Half the Requirement

May 20, 2014

Building Something is Only Half the Requirement

Many organizations call us looking for a quote on building something for them. Most of the time people think they can simply tell us what they want and expect us to simply build it. In order to build something that does something we have to ask a...

The Razor and The Slogan

May 6, 2014

The Razor and The Slogan

About 8 years ago, I hired a new animator for my team who had come from Electronic Arts (Need for Speed, Lord of the Rings, Titanfall, Tiger Woods, Madden). In his first couple weeks he emailed me a slideshow from a presentation that he attended...

The Tech Behind Fireworks

December 31, 1969

The Tech Behind Fireworks

With the ending of June and the beginning of July, you begin to see the red and white tents popping up all over the place with hundreds of fireworks to purchase. However, for the big, jaw-dropping Fourth of July fireworks display in Nashville, they...