We’ve worked with this company for years. At a certain point, it made sense for them to bring some of their work in-house, but we continue to support their success by providing leadership, code review, and general transition services. We helped oversee and review a transition from Brightcove video services to raw AWS transcoding services. Read More: Team Lead and Code Review | Festpass

I’m excited to announce our new website maintenance and support contracts! Over several years of working with many technical and business leaders, I’ve found that codebases that get too stale become increasingly risky.  Fresh Code Is Better By “stale” I mean codebases where no one does any of the following things regularly: builds, updates, tests, Read More: Introducing Website Maintenance Plans

The best way to see if someone can write code is to have them write code. Therefore, we test everyone!  The trick is to make the test as similar to your every day work as possible. Don’t send them through a list of multiple choice questions on the finer points of JavaScript. In my experience, Read More: Tips For Testing Developers

We use a combination of cultural fit, confidence, and reputation. Cultural Fit Cultural fit varies based on the company, team, and project so there isn’t much value I can add for you here, except that you need to determine what your values are (e.g. Quality, Value, Clarity) and find people who share them. It isn’t Read More: Filter Candidates Well

Although we don’t talk about our company branding services much, we do have talented designers that we work with. We had done some website work previously for this client that included a logo design and they needed a logo for a separate business. We went through a couple rounds of revisions and settled on a Read More: Logo Design | Auto Rental

Unemployment in web development has been very low and wages have not been stagnant. To make matters worse, Google and other tech giants are literally printing money and inflating salaries. Good news is that advertising is only a small portion of the dev industry and working at the giants involves mindless, soul sucking work. So, Read More: Finding Good People Is Hard

Projects can fail for many reasons and unreal expectations are high on that list. At Buink, we measure our success by the success of our clients, which is why we’re always looking for clients who have a strong business plan, some business expertise, a good idea, and a good team. It is our job to Read More: The Divine Estimate

If you’ve been reading our blog or downloaded our free Guide to Tech Projects for Non-technical Founders, you’ve learned how important a team is for completing technical projects successfully. The most important person on the team is the technology lead. This goes without saying, but must be said given how often this rule is ignored. Read More: Fractional Technology Leader