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  • Own a Start-Up? You Need a Web Development Partner

    • April 26 2016, 12:40 pm

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    In 2015, Business Insider made a list of the top thirteen most lucrative start-ups in the United States. Let's pick out three of them at random from their list - Periscope, Honeyroot, and Honor. Periscope, the live streaming application ...

  • Swell on the Catwalk This Weekend

    • April 22 2016, 8:00 am

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    The Global Fashion Show is the closest anyone at Swell Development will get to being fashion models. Since we weren't asked to bare it all on the catwalk, we gave event organizers free access to our powerful project management application to help them tie together the myriad of tasks to be completed for the event, not to mention keeping in touch with the dozens of hairdressers, clothiers, models, catering companies and others helping put together the event. It ...

  • PHP Developer Job: Come work with us!

    • April 21 2016, 11:30 am

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    Swell Development is a growing web development company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We specialize in building responsive, highly reliable web applications for clients across a number of industries. We choose to work with developers with decades of experience from all over the country who work to our high standards of excellence. If you have experience, a good attitude and a great work ethic, we want to hear from you.

    Your hours are your own - ...

  • Laravel's Spark v1 to Be Released 4/18

    • April 18 2016, 9:26 am

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    Last week, Laravel released Spark in beta for the first time. This week, the first version will be released to the development community. Spark will save developers plenty of time by writing the boilerplate code used in many applications, so the develoeprs don't have to built some functionalities from scratch. Everything from password authentification, password reset, invoicing, and much more is all taken care of for your application, which ...

  • MongoDB To End 2.6

    • April 14 2016, 2:00 pm

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    MongoDB announced that developers will say adios to version 2.6 at the end of October. The iteration has been released for over two years, and has remained a very functional iteration for developers around the world.

    If you're using 2.6, consider upgrading to 3.0 or the most recent version, 3.2. If you're unsure on how to make the jump to a newer version, the wonderful folks at MongoDB offer an on-demand

  • BlackBerry, A Line of Code, and the Great Decryption Debate

    • April 14 2016, 10:57 am

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    You may have heard some relatively stunning news surrounding revelations of Blackberry's possession of a decryption method in blogs and across social media. It was revealed during the the fallout of a murder trial that began in 2011 in Montreal. Trial documents show that Royal Canadian Mounted Police used a decryption code, specific to Blackberry devices, throughout the gang related murder investigation. The code allowed police to access one million ...

  • How to Start a Web Application Project

    • April 12 2016, 10:42 am

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    The variety of web applications and their purposes is immense. In every industry, applications manage important business processes, help to manage employees, customers, track metrics and more. In short, applications manage and manipulate data to help businesses, organizations and individuals operate in a more efficient manner.

    Most of our clients enlist our help to build a web application to do exactly that - manage data in a way that enables ...

  • Swell Development Hires an Application Support Specialist

    • April 5 2016, 9:48 am

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    We're so excited to announce that we've brought on Jessica Clark to our team! Jessica is an IT professional with years of experience helping users better utilize a variety of software applications. Jessica's experience with such a varying range of applications has given her a unique expertise - the ability to tell what makes an application easy to use. Jessica will be in charge of aiding our ...

  • MongoDB Releases 3.0.11 with Bug Fix

    • April 4 2016, 9:46 am

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    Love MongoDB? We do too. That's why we were thrilled to see 3.0.11 released at the end of last week. MongoDB gave users a heads up on their blogthat the release would fix inserts being deleted during chunk migration. According to MongoDB, this issue was only affecting shared clusters where shards were running versions 3.0.9 or 3.0.10, a user had a balancer enabled or performed a manual chunk migration.

    If you're using 3.0 or higher, get ...

  • Swell Development Acquires Yahoo!

    • April 1 2016, 8:30 am

    • by Wes Sovis

    • General

    On Friday morning, Swell Development's CEO, Christian Clark, confirmed rumors that had been swirling for months among industry experts - Yahoo! has finally been acquired by Swell Development. Speaking from a beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Clark confirmed that Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer had called to accept Swell's proposed terms as of 6:30am EST.

    At a press conference this morning, Christian thanked Marissa for her professionalism throughout the ...