Category Archives: Application Development

Better User Experience on “Forget Password” Processes

posted by: Gary Galvin

Develop and design an better “Forget Password” process.

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My 5 Favorite Things with Salesforce.com

posted by: Gary Galvin

5 great things that I like about Salesforce.com – By Gary Galvin, President of Galvin Technologies

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Software as a Service: Licensing Multiple Units in the Digital Age

posted by: Tom Schaetzle

Valve, the Bellevue, WA-based video game development company, was already one of the most successful and highly-regarded businesses of its type when it again revolutionized computer gaming. Years before, Valve released the critically acclaimed first-person shooter Half-Life, to this day considered by many to be the greatest game to be released on the PC platform. [...]

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Indiana State Republican Party Re-Design

posted by: Crissy Koger

When the Indiana State Republican Party (INDGOP) approached Galvin, they were not satisfied with their current website. Navigation was difficult and the site was overall relatively disorganized and the site did not integrate with two major internal applications – Salesforce and RPort (INDGOP’s internal proprietary database). In short, INDGOP wanted something fresher, more vibrant, user [...]

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Comfort of Popularity vs. Usability: Bucking the Trend

posted by: Tom Schaetzle

What would happen if, out of nowhere, a company came out with a better MP3 player than Apple? Better storage, more functions, etc. for a better price? Well, it’s happened. Multiple times. Some competing MP3 players offer all of these superiorities, but have failed to achieve the prestige of the Apple iPod due to its [...]

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Functional Requirements and Use Cases: Avoiding Accidents and Mix-ups in System Engineering

posted by: Tom Schaetzle

Ok. You have decided to make a monumental decision: you are going to hire an architectural company to build a new house for you. After months and months and what has to equal hundreds of thousands of dollars, you drive to your new home, walk in and…realize things aren’t quite right. You flip the switch for [...]

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Technology is an Accelerator: Be a Pioneer and Not a Follower

posted by: Gary Galvin

when you instead become a pioneer in the application you are accelerating your momentum for for success. You are defining the requirements and the direction for your business.

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Web development blogs and search engine marketing blogs

posted by: Travis A. Moser

I’m sure you’re already aware of the benefits of following web development and search engine marketing blogs over reading books on the industries—keeping up on breaking trends that haven’t made it into books yet, getting quick tips, gaining useful information quickly in the little chunks of time when you don’t have enough time to sit [...]

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Congratulations Bluelock

posted by: Gary Galvin

Galvin Creative Technologies is glad to be able to house our infrastructure at  Bluelock, an Indianapolis, IN data center.  We were fortunate enough to build  a relationship with the good folks over there and we want to pass onto them our congratulations on two successful years.  dBusiness just released a nice article about their accomplishment [...]

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Ruby on Rails Development

posted by: Gary Galvin

When developing web software applications Galvin Creative Technologies sometimes chooses to use Ruby on Rails

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Build/Debug/Build vs. Discovery

posted by: Gary Galvin

37signals produced a great handbook for developing web applications – “Getting Real”. But still make sure you do discovery, a requirements workbook and most importantly use cases.

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