Software Development

Articles, guides and tutorials on software development, covering methodologies, tools, languages and best practices for building production-grade software.

How to Build a Software Development Team
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How to Build a Software Development Team

What engineers actually cost in the UK, which role to hire first, and the team shapes that work at one, three, five and ten people.

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Enterprise Software Development Services: What You Are Buying
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Enterprise Software Development Services: What You Are Buying

What the word enterprise actually commits a supplier to, from uptime and recovery objectives through procurement and certification to the exit clause.

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Bespoke Software Development in London: Rates and Reality
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Bespoke Software Development in London: Rates and Reality

What a London agency really charges for bespoke software, how day rates and blended rates are built, and the contract terms that matter more.

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Salesforce vs HubSpot: Choosing a CRM in 2026
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Salesforce vs HubSpot: Choosing a CRM in 2026

A practitioner comparison of published price, three year running cost, administration load, API limits and what it actually costs to leave each CRM.

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Salesforce Implementation: Cost, Timeline and Failure Modes
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Salesforce Implementation: Cost, Timeline and Failure Modes

The licence is the small number. What a Salesforce implementation really costs in the UK, how long it takes, and the decisions that decide whether it lands.

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Drupal 12: What Changes and When to Move
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Drupal 12: What Changes and When to Move

Drupal 12 arrives the same week Drupal 10 stops getting security fixes, so here is what changes, what the move costs and when to do it.

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Salesforce Integration: Limits, Rails and Real Cost
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Salesforce Integration: Limits, Rails and Real Cost

What actually breaks in a Salesforce integration: the org-wide API request allocation, Apex governor limits, the data model traps, and what the work costs.

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WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates
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WordPress Plugin Development That Survives Core Updates

How to commission and build a custom WordPress plugin that keeps working through core updates, what to ask for, and what it should cost.

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CMS Migration Without Losing Your Traffic
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CMS Migration Without Losing Your Traffic

What actually breaks when you change CMS, the redirect map that decides whether traffic survives, and the checks to run before and after the switch.

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Postmortems That Actually Change Something
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Postmortems That Actually Change Something

Why most incident reviews produce action items nobody completes, what a useful timeline contains, and how to make the follow-up actually happen.

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