Make WordPress Run Like Greased Lightning
There are many advertised ways to tweak, tune, and cache your way into the WordPress Speed Loading Championships. We’re going to show you a couple of changes that worked wonders for boomcycle.com. Hopefully they will work for you as well! Page Speed Before Here is a screen shot of the Google Page Speed plugin before tweaking WordPress. It was clocking in at 47/100, which is noticeably slow...
Read MoreLeveraging Amazon RDS to maximize database performance
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a feature of Amazon’s cloud computing platform that allows customers to establish an installation of the MySQL Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that is running “in the cloud.” This installation of MySQL functions exactly like MySQL installed on conventional servers–existing software requires no changes and new software requires...
Read MoreIntro to Mobile Apps
Mobile App Development for the Non-Techie Most business people know they need a mobile presence but many don’t know where to start or even what an “app” truly is. Technology is moving quickly and as usual the business owner whose core business is not technology-centric is left behind in the ongoing and ever-changing technology conversation. Recently that conversation has...
Read MoreBoomcycle is BBB Accredited
Los Angeles based Boomcycle is now a Better Business Bureau accredited business. We take our reputation seriously and we want our clients to know that great service is our highest priority. Boomcycle has been around since 2003 and we aim to be around for many more years....
Read MoreRemedies for Website Growing Pains
One of Boomcycle’s favorite things to do is to help successful clients overcome growing pains. We often see clients with good business models who are limping along with an inadequate or broken system that was built by well-intentioned, but less experienced developers. In some cases, we see clients with good systems being managed poorly by a clueless third-party IT company. Sometimes we see both...
Read MoreGetting It Right The First Time
Communications is everything when you’re building custom software for a client. The client has a vision for their application that they must communicate to the development team. Through conversations, Q&A and research, the developers form a vision they believe came from the client. But sometimes, two different visions can result from this process. So how can we be sure we develop the...
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