Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category

Is Google Doing Something Evil?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

We have to preface this post by stating that we love Google Apps. We've been using Google Apps at Deft Labs for almost two years and have had a fantastic experience. It's an excellent product for the price. Everyone pays $50 per user per year for a slew of business ...

Google’s App Engine

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Recently, we've been researching cloud computing so we decided to take a look at Google's App Engine. We had hoped to write this earlier, but it was some time before we received access from Google to use App Engine :-) We're excited to see cloud computing move forward but, as ...

WordPress 2.5

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

We decided to take the plunge and upgrade to WordPress 2.5. Despite the many prompts to upgrade in the WordPress administration tool, we decided to wait a few weeks to before upgrading the application. The process was easy but definitely required more typing than we expected. With over 15 plugins installed, ...

Yahoo! User Interface Libraries

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

We are always on the hunt for web technologies that add functionality and decrease development time. We have been tracking The Yahoo! User Interface Libraries (YUI) for a while and are finally ready to slap on the Deft Labs seal of approval :-) photo credit: V.P.Tz. Paradigm Shift For more than a ...

Google’s OpenSocial API - No Beef (yet)

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Yesterday, Google released their OpenSocial API. As a social application service provider we're excited about the concept of write once run anywhere. What's the problem? It's all hype right now. Google should have spent more time polishing OpenSocial before they released the product. The only live site that supports applications ...