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  • 23 April 2009

    • 16:50

      PHP Quick Profiler

      Introduction In our company, code reviews play an integral part in the development process for making quality software. We opt for a mentor style approach with Wufoo, where a developer works on a segment for a period of time and then passes it up to a more experienced developer for review. We really like this approach [...]

  • 19 February 2009

    • 15:00

      How Not to Pitch to a Startup

      Several months ago, Infinity Box, our company, and thus Wufoo were listed in a publication targeted at investors, angels and venture capital firms as a promising young startup. We have, unfortunately, not been able to track down the source of this recommendation (investors seem odd about keeping their sources mysterious), but what followed for us [...]

  • 30 October 2008

    • 05:15

      How We Prepare a Demo

      Introduction While I’ve highlighted best practices and resources on how to pitch your ideas in the past, I thought I’d take some time to share exactly how we prepare for our demos when we’ve been invited to showcase Wufoo at conferences, events and VC boardrooms. We’ve spent a lot of time refining and practicing our workflow [...]
    • 05:15

      How We Prepare a Demo

      Introduction While I’ve highlighted best practices and resources on how to pitch your ideas in the past, I thought I’d take some time to share exactly how we prepare for our demos when we’ve been invited to showcase Wufoo at conferences, events and VC boardrooms. We’ve spent a lot of time refining and practicing our workflow [...]

  • 29 September 2008

    • 21:20

      Rich Application Architecture Roundup

      When Chris, Kevin and Ryan approached Alex and I to develop Wufoo Unplugged, a desktop application to view Wufoo form data offline, we ended up choosing .NET because in addition to it offering the features we needed like multi-threading, file system access and pre-built Lucene libraries, it was also the technology that Alex and I [...]
    • 19:20

      Rich Application Architecture Roundup

      When Chris, Kevin and Ryan approached Alex and I to develop Wufoo Unplugged, a desktop application to view Wufoo form data offline, we ended up choosing .NET because in addition to it offering the features we needed like multi-threading, file system access and pre-built Lucene libraries, it was also the technology that Alex and I [...]

  • 16 September 2008

    • 20:27

      On Prioritizing Feature Development

      Gathering a list of features to implement in your software is pretty easy. Sources of inspiration usually come from all different directions. Users will request features, your team will suggest features, your competition will taunt you with their features and then, of course, there’s always what necessity dictates. The problem is once you’ve amassed this collective [...]