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Are you a business owner and have your own website? Or are you responsible for maintaining your employer’s website? Have you ever heard of Google Analytics? If not, I suggest you sign up for this free web analytics service and dive into some interesting data! Google Ana...

Using Postgresql's Jsonb Data Type with NHibernate

August 25, 2015

Sam Sinno

In this new world of NoSql databases, it is interesting to see how relational databases like postgresql have responded to the new trend. As you may know, most NoSql databases store information in a document based format. One of the more popular NoSql databases, MongoDB, uses...

5 Tips for Developers Leaving an In-House Development Team for a Design and Development Firm

August 20, 2015

Alex Ciampi

A few months ago, I joined the Cloud Construct team, based in Boston. Before I joined the design and web development firm, I worked with an in-house development team. I quickly learned the differences between the two environments. First, here's context: At my previous pos...

How to Know if Your Website is Mobile-Friendly

July 25, 2015

Brooke Yu

Over the years, the use of mobile devices has increased. Rather than logging onto our desktops or laptops, many of us use our smartphones to search the Internet. In April 2015, Google released a new search algorithm that has a significant impact on mobile search results. If...

How To Customize Orchard CMS Email without Creating Your Own Module

June 6, 2015

Arra Derderian

Orchard CMS is a great CMS for two important reasons: extending and increasing its core functionality. Even as the lead developer (and owner) of a .NET development agency in Boston, I had a hard time understanding how all the quote-unqoute magic happens in Orchard CMS, with...

Javascript Minification Using RequireJS For Multiple SPAs

May 18, 2015

Sam Sinno

As a web development firm we run into many challenges, one of those challenges includes how to best structure and optimize JavaScript. AMD loaders like RequireJS have become ubiquitous in the JavaScript world for this reason. It’s ability to perform dependency management and...

Bootstrap – The All-In-One Responsive Framework

May 1, 2015

Alex Ciampi

By definition Bootstrap is “the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS frameworks for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.” For us developers here at Cloud Construct it has become a standard. With every new project comes the need for the site or web application...

Orchard CMS : Custom Admin Media Insertion Templates

April 26, 2015

Arra Derderian

Many times you want to insert media into your blog posts, pages, or HTML widgets on the fly. There are style issues when this happens because any custom code you may want to insert around video or media items can't be done by a marketer or administrator most of the time. Sec...

SEO in Orchard CMS

April 23, 2015

Arra Derderian

As we all know the best way to change your search engine ranking is through writing valuable content and structuring it under proper headings and urls. Secondly, other recommendations I have heard are to write valid markup. utilize "title" and "alt" tags on images, and have a...

How to Use Azure BLOB Storage and Azure CDN for Scaling Web Applications

March 10, 2015

Arra Derderian

Part 1 - Using BLOB Storage for Scalability If you’re like me, working in website design and development, then you love the ability to easily publish your enterprise web applications to Windows Azure websites. Visual Studio online makes this very easy, and the scalability and...

Google Analytics: 6 Interesting Pieces of Information & Some Questions to Ask Yourself

Using Postgresql's Jsonb Data Type with NHibernate

5 Tips for Developers Leaving an In-House Development Team for a Design and Development Firm

How to Know if Your Website is Mobile-Friendly

How To Customize Orchard CMS Email without Creating Your Own Module

Javascript Minification Using RequireJS For Multiple SPAs

Bootstrap – The All-In-One Responsive Framework

Orchard CMS : Custom Admin Media Insertion Templates

SEO in Orchard CMS

How to Use Azure BLOB Storage and Azure CDN for Scaling Web Applications

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Google Analytics: 6 Interesting Pieces of Information & Some Questions to Ask Yourself

Using Postgresql's Jsonb Data Type with NHibernate

5 Tips for Developers Leaving an In-House Development Team for a Design and Development Firm

How to Know if Your Website is Mobile-Friendly

How To Customize Orchard CMS Email without Creating Your Own Module

Javascript Minification Using RequireJS For Multiple SPAs

Bootstrap – The All-In-One Responsive Framework

Orchard CMS : Custom Admin Media Insertion Templates

SEO in Orchard CMS

How to Use Azure BLOB Storage and Azure CDN for Scaling Web Applications

We help startups start up.

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