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The Business of Development
Throwaway Prototyping
Throwaway prototyping is a method of development that employs technical mechanisms for reducing risk in a project. There is subtle, but significant difference in this approach that we want to explore. For some companies, projects - pretty much any technical undertaking you can think of, there is a lot of pressure to continue development of the first prototype or...
Custom Molds & Tooling for Aerospace, Marine and Transportation Industries
Today we are working with Janicki Industries - a leading supplier for custom molds, composite tooling, 5-axis milled patterns and other composites for marine, transportation, aerospace and alternative energy. Janicki industries produces aerospace molds, marine molds and transportation molds for a wide variety of industrial clients. Janicki Industries specializes in...
Seattle Zen Cart Developers
FDG Web, Inc does a lot of custom zen cart development both in the Seattle area or nation-wide. We've deployed basic, stock Zen Cart shopping carts - all the way up to 100% custom Zen Cart deployments using custom applications hooked into the Zen Cart open source framework. Here are a few recent examples: Invite Designer - Online Wedding Invitation Designer: We...
Seattle Facebook Developers
FDG Web are Seattle Facebook Developers. We do develop simple and complex applications for Facebook and other Social Networking Platforms. We're not an application publisher ourselves; it's just not what we do. We build applications for our clients who then in turn publish and market the applications that go on to greater glory and profit. Yes, I know ... we should...
Destination-based Sales Tax – An update to Zen-Cart and Virtuemart builds.
Everyone should be well into their Q1 tax changes for destination-based sales tax. Here in the great State of WA - the total number of records for Zip +4 to help you calculate your destination based sales tax has grown from around 50,000 such records to a whopping 104,000+ individual fields for the various tax zones. If you are not familiar with this requirement, as...
Seattle Joomla Development
We've been doing a large number of custom Joomla development projects this year. Most of which seem to have a custom component that "normal" developers just do not know how to develop for them. In our Company, since we use all local, on-staff developers and designers - we have multiple people to work on our clients needs. There is rarely something our staff cannot...
Zen Cart & Oscommerce calculate sales tax by destination module.
After a very long development cycle, we now have custom modules for Zen-cart and Oscommerce that can calculate destination-based sales tax. Using a combination of address verification and data made available by your State you can become compliant in no time flat. The modules calculate based on Zip +4 to break down the sales tax by zip code and the 4 digit code as...
Plyboo Bamboo Flooring & Bamboo Floors – Client Project
Plyboo is in the business of Bamboo Flooring & Bamboo Floors, along with Bamboo Plywood and sustainable green flooring and other "Green Building" materials. We were called in to aide in correcting certain Joomla navigation and site structure requirements. We also added SugarCRM and worked on some lead generation & sample request forms that piped data directly into...
Government Grant Proposal Templates
After several years worth of work and hundreds of hours spent with a consultant who does nothing but write Government Grants and Grant Proposals - The Government Proposal Pack of Templates is available for purchase. Increase your odds of winning a Government Grant or Proposal using a proposal structures based on actual winning proposal writing "Best Practices" and...








