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Made in India, offshoring PHP development

Posted 25 July 2011, 9:00 AM

A very large proportion of web development on Western websites is secretly done in Eastern countries. It's the elephant in the room, or in this case, the Indian Elephant in the room.

There's a huge advantage to offshoring PHP development: cost. The numbers seem extraordinary, $8 per hour vs $100 per hour.

In this article I will try and explain when offshoring PHP development works, and when it does…

Feedback methods that don't lead you down the garden path

Posted 25 July 2011, 9:00 AM

One hard lesson I've learnt at ocProducts is to never rely on unsolicited user feedback to gauge and drive product development. This post will explain the issues, and detail better feedback methods.

Anyone who looks at the forums will see I reply to all kinds of things (and that I've built up a reputation for it), and quite often I mention I'll make a change in the next version if someone finds a usability…

How to evaluate a software company

Posted 24 July 2011, 9:00 AM

At ocProducts we often find that prospective clients don't know how to evaluate a software company. It's understandable: a lot of web businesses are first-time-businesses, and they are often started by people who are expert in the subject matter, but not web technology. People can't know everything.

It becomes a problem in two particular scenarios:

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Don't make another Asian-Dating website

Posted 24 July 2011, 9:00 AM

This article is all about ill-considered ideas for .com businesses, and our advice on doing some planning before diving in.

Every few months we get someone coming along wanting our help to create a new dating website with ocPortal. And usually, it's an asian-dating website.

By asian-dating, people usually mean people who's families originate in the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh), but living/born…

Buzz on, why you should not be cynical of IT buzzwords

Posted 23 July 2011, 9:00 AM

If there's one thing computer science students complain about, it's Business and IT buzzwords. For a very fastidious technical person who understands the details and history of things, buzzwords are a an absolute perversion.

They hype stuff up to sound new when they have often been around for most of the history of computing/business.

They are ill-defined, and meaningless.

They come with an air of pretension, used by self-important people trying to sound bigger than they are: acts of sheer…