The Pros and Cons of Building Bespoke Software
A streamlined operation is a part of what helps businesses achieve their goals. Having an organized process means knowing you have the tools needed to meet operational objectives as a company—and this includes business software solutions. Generally speaking, organizations need specialized software that fulfills their business needs. Developers understand these prerequisites and have the tools…
The World Needs More Software Developers!
The rise of technology and digital tools in today’s modern world is evident. Everywhere you turn, you can see a student working on their laptop in a coffee shop or a kid playing games on their parent’s smartphone. The widespread use of smart devices is set to expand in the coming years, until one day, no one will be able to recall what life was like before phones and other gadgets. Because of…
When Should Businesses Outsource Custom Software Development?
Most, if not all companies have a common goal – and that’s to be the best in their field. As industries are becoming more globally competitive, it’s crucial that you continuously evaluate and improve the way you do things to avoid being left behind. It’s also critical that you make the right business decisions, such as when or why you should outsource your company’s digital application or…
Working on your own digital product or how to scale a IT company
Digital/online products have been on my mind from a while now and I strongly believe that they are the future of IntelligentBee. Even if we started out as a outsourcing and services company, we developed our own products accordingly to our vision and mission as a company. Our progress turned into establishing our own Product team. Regarding the opportunities that one can find on our local IT…
Golang Guide: A List of Top Golang Frameworks, IDEs & Tools
Since its introduction, Google’s Go Programming Language (Golang) has been experiencing an increasing popularity among mainstream users. In a December 2016 survey, 89% of the 3,595 respondents claimed that they program in Go at work or outside of work. Additionally, Go ranks highest among the programming languages in terms of expertise and preference. This July 2017, Go ranks 10th in Tiobe's…
Face Detection with Apple’s iOS 11 Vision Framework
Great stuff is coming from Apple this autumn! Among a lot of new APIs there is the Vision Framework which helps with detection of faces, face features, object tracking and others. In this post we will take a look at how can one put the face detection to work. We will make a simple application that can take a photo (using the camera of from the library) and will draw some lines on the faces it…
Building a Travel Photo Sharing iOS App
Hello! I want to show you how to build a relative simple photo sharing app with a twist: your images will be placed on a map background of your current location. You will also be able to add a short message and your name, to end up with an image looking like this (so you can brag to your friends with what you visited in the awesome vacation you have): To follow this tutorial you need an Apple…
Introduction to React Native
React Native is a framework for building native apps using React made by Facebook. With React Native, you don't build a “mobile web app”, an “HTML5 app”, or a “hybrid app”. You build a real mobile app that's indistinguishable from an app built using Objective-C or Java. React Native uses the same fundamental UI building blocks as regular iOS and Android apps. You just put those building blocks…
How to add TINYINT MySQL type to Doctrine in Symfony 2.8
Hello! A few days ago I needed to define an entity with a TINYINT type column to hold a rating value between 1 and 5. I was doing this in a Symfony 2.8 project and to my surprise, Doctrine was unable to handle this type of data out of the box (it uses it for booleans but it has no TINYINT standalone type). So I searched the internet for a solution and I found some but nothing complete. The…
Node.js Guide: A List of Top Node.js Frameworks, Tools, and IDEs
Created by Ryan Dahl in 2009, Node.js is an open-source platform built using the Google Chrome JavaScript runtime. It enables software and app developers to build fast and scalable web applications using just a few lines of code. The official website of Node.js described it as: “Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O…