So I wanted to briefly blog about my first experience with market.Envato.com products.  Envato is an online place to buy themes, plugins and code for website design. They are a giant in the market and are a subsidiary of ThemeForest.net. They began around 2006 and grew into a giant in just a few years. This blog is not to explain who or what they are.  There are many places you can get more information about this company based out of Australia.   Well lets get down to business. What I found is they do not support what they sell nor do they offer much in terms of credits for downloading broken themes or bad code. We are just one in thousands of blogs that have had the same experience with buying a product from their website and hoping it will save time. Its quite the contrary because you will end up…

As a developer for private organizations I started to really understand the distribution network currently available for developers online.  It consists of several large players. They include Mojo Themes, Elegant Themes who does not use third party distribution the right way to do it, Authentic themes, Graph paper press, Press75, Aliewp and then there is a group who are all basically the same company.  This is the largest player of them all, the Envato Market which consists of themeforest, codecanyon, videohive, audiojungle, graphicriver, photodune, 3docean and activeden.  The Envato market is somehow related to each of its partners which is not always clear but business policies are inherited in some form or another. So you are developing new code for some application such as WordPress or JoomLa.  Your code works great and you want to provide a very reasonable price with excellent support for your customers.  I bet the first…

The job market today has changed dramatically.  Corporations are looking for better and cheaper ways to hire new employees.  But is full time employment the most efficient way?  Lets discuss a few reasons why hiring professional consulting firms can grow your business faster than hiring employees. Reason 1: First lets talk about how much value an engineering consulting firm can bring to your business.  A professional engineering consulting firm is going to have a great deal of engineering knowledge that you could not achieve from a single employee.  No matter what your hiring process is no testing or extensive interview process is going to determine if the new hire is going to perform to your standards.  Its a fact that many people lie on their resumes in order to land the job and most people are just not cut out for the position.  Reason 2: When you hire employees the…

Geo Blocking – Does it really benefit your organization?  Do you really want to block possible global opportunities? We have noticed a great deal of corporations who feel it is necessary to Geo Block their web domains.  For example lets discuss a well known website.  Loopnet.com is a very popular commercial real estate website in the United States.  They made a corporate decision a few months ago to block most of South America and other nations from accessing their site. In most cases Geo Blocking is for security problems and price control this is the reason why Geo Blocking really started but maybe you do not realize there are literally millions of American citizens living and working outside of the United States who either own property in the United States or are looking for property in the states.  Some are looking for commercial space in the states for branching a…