Boost Your Game Downloads

We are living in a world surrounded by apps and games. For a developer it’s very hard to make a difference with his game and convince his potential users to download it. You need a plan and you need to follow some major steps to make your dream a reality. GoodWorkLabs brings to a few pointers to make it big in the gaming industry by increasing  your Mobile game downloads in the play store.

Make It Free

People don’t like to pay for things. We all know that. So if you’re coming into the vast world of app development with a mobile game that you know for sure is hot stuff but you’re charging $4.99 for it, then good luck to you, pal.

You’re starting what they call a cottage industry, which will ultimately end up as merely a footnote, a niche in the market. The bottom line is, you’re not going to get very many people paying for it; with the huge amount of apps available, you need to reach as wide an audience as possible; the best way to do this, straight off the bat, is to make it free. There’s a lot of really good free apps out there; unless your idea is the next Snake, you haven’t got a chance of catching people’s attention.

Build A Community

Engage your audience. You know they’re already going to be interested because your app is free, so you’ve got a connection already. The next step is about actual communication. Use the various social media platforms available to you; the best thing about this method is that someone else has already done most of the hard work for you. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, all of the big three giants have billions of combined users, and potential gamers, all available for you at one place.

That’s a lot of exposure if you can build the right channels. You need some hype around the game. Word of mouth is your ally here, as it is with any commercially viable commodity. Think about it this way; people are much more likely to rely on the words of their friends than the faceless advice of the internet. But how do you get those initial players playing? Via the internet of course. Get as many editorials flowing as you can, splurge on all the press you can get. Let the people know what your game is about, how you play it; give your audience some incentive to get involved. Twitter promotion is especially good for this, as you can market in a concise, precise way. It’s all about promotion and exposure is the name of the game.

Keep It Simple

This is an age old advice, but is still applicable. Complexity is death when it comes to apps. There have been several instances where you might have put down an app mere minutes after picking it up because you sensed an arduous and convoluted path ahead. A user should be able to understand the basic mechanics of a game within thirty seconds of picking it up. Whatever the genre of game, when it comes to handheld devices, simple will always be the way to go.

Again, look at Snake. The game is literally timeless, there are still apps being released today that rely on its basic premise. But the beauty of Snake is that games can be as quick or as long as you like. People carry their iPhones in their pockets; no one whips it out looking for a five hour long intense session of gaming. Bite-sized chunks are the order of the day.

Cross-Platform Is The Way Forward

Let’s be blunt,  limiting your game to just iOS or Android is not a great way to start proceedings. While the iPhone might have the edge on popularity, you can never tell which way the pendulum is going to swing; counter this by making your baby playable across all types of devices from smartphones to tablets. This might take a little bit of extra time in the development phase, but will pay back dividends once you get your app off the ground. Cross-Platform also suggests professionalism, while at the same time indicating that your game is universally enjoyable. The consumers will think, hey, if they’ve bothered to position it across all platforms, then they must have some faith in it! This also aids you in your marketing, the key tool for a grassroots campaign. Editorials will be keen to mention your cross-platform standing. When it comes to your Facebook and Twitter promotion, you can be sure that you’re appealing to 100% of your audience, and not immediately cutting anyone out. Double platforms mean double exposure.

Get hustling!

Django Unchained

‘Pronounced JANG-oh. Rhymes with FANG-oh. The “D” is silent.’ Django, also known as the ‘web framework for perfectionists with deadlines’ is taking the software & tech industry by storm. It is an intricate, advanced level Python web framework encouraging rapid development alongside clean, logical design and thinking.

Features of developing with Django

• Unbelievably fast

Django was designed with the intention to help developers travel from a concept to a finished project as quickly as possible. When speaking about speed one has to consider performance. Django partakes in lower memory consumption and fewer demands on the database/network, becoming much less of a burden than many other frameworks out there.

•  The Complete Package

It comes with an object-relational mapper in which you describe your database layout in Python code. More than that, the data-model syntax provides many rich ways of representing your models. The migrate command glances over all available models and builds tables in your database for whichever ones that don’t exist. What’s more? It optionally provides richer schema control as well. In a nutshell, Django takes care of user authentication, site maps, content administration, RSS feeds and much more with simple commands.

• Highly Secure

Its user authentication system provides a safe way to manage user accounts and passwords alongside ensuring developers stray away from making common mistakes such as: cross-site scripting, cross-site request, click jacking and forgery.

• Widely Scalable

Some of the most crowded, busiest sites on the planet use this framework.

Here are some companys that use Django:

1. Instagram

Django is used as a mobile backend for Instagram, ran on Amazon High-CPU, extra-large machines.

2. Mozilla Firefox

 Mozilla Firefox uses Django to operate on a larger scale by creating robust backups for storage.

3. Pinterest

Pinterest, along with Instagram is one of the firms which switched from Ruby on Rails to Django to achieve better scalability.

4. NASA

 The National Aeronautic and Space Administration uses the Django framework to constantly build and update its website.

5. The Washington Post

This news giant receives millions of visitors per day and relies on Django to uphold all system operations on their website under the heavy visit load.

6. Eventbrite

It was easy for Eventbrite to switch to Django as a majority of their code was written in Python and so making the transition became an obvious choice. They used this framework to build their homepage and manage heavy loads of traffic.

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These are just a few reasons why popular websites like Pinterest and Buzzfeed are switching to Django, with the rest of the industry to follow and you should too!

Augmented Reality (AR) – The Reality of the future

Fusing the real world with an idea you have created in your mind and turning it into reality can make you feel like God in a world of mortals……but only if done right.

Here are 7 important measures to consider before building your AR app:

1. Types of AR

Marker-Based

In a marker-based AR app,  the images are provided beforehand. In this case, you know, exactly, what the application should recognize, while obtaining the camera data, and should place the virtual objects on top of the recognized markers. Nowadays, most of the AR apps, dealing with image recognition, are marker-based. The simple reason is that it’s simpler to detect things that are pre-defined in your app. AR marker can be a straight forward black and white (square) image or can be a QR code, also. You can even create your own QR code for free using available tools online. These are easily recognized and tracked; system doesn’t need a lot of processing power to perform the recognition (and tracking).

Marker-Less

A marker-less AR application recognizes the real world objects that are not pre-defined within the application. This makes use of feature recognition. And, this scenario is more complex, because the augmented object scale and position need to be calculated using some mathematical (X, Y axes) logic.

At the end of the day, it is up to you, as a developer, which technique best suits your app as Marker-Based  can be more efficient in terms of processing and Marker-Less can help you achieve greater accuracy.

2. Reliable, Dynamic and Multiple Target Recognition

Reliability–  Target recognition depends on the size of the target, the clarity of the target image and the distance between the target and the camera. You should validate the ideal distance from which the image is getting recognized from the camera device. Because, in some cases, the image will be recognized only when we place the camera too close to it or the image may fluctuate when observing the composite AR view in device from a distance.

Dynamics–  AR SDKs must support/recognize dynamic markers where users add/change the markers, dynamically, from other end. In this fast moving world, we cannot always rely on some set of pre-loaded static images. So, AR vendors have to offer some system and API to get the images, dynamically, from the system.

Multiple– AR SDKs should support/recognize multiple marker images, at a time, and must present its unique augmented view, appropriate to each marker.

As a developer, you should ensure that these settings are optimized for your app to run efficiently.

3. Cloud Service Approach 

Give priority to service providers, who propose Cloud service and related API, to store/get marker images. As users we prefer when an app takes up the least amount of memory storage on our phones and so, a developer who can accommodate for that issue by choosing a cloud service approach will have his/her app met with greater responsiveness.

4. Platform Support

Choose AR service providers, offering SDKs, to native and cross platforms. Apart from these two, some service providers are offering SDKs for Xamarin, Apppcelarator, Unity, etc. Some service vendors provide native SDKs which involves only native language code, whereas, some other vendors expect HTML, JS, CSS code over and above the native language code.

5. Apparatus Support

Some AR SDKs support only mobile devices. And some service providers, also, support smart glasses, etc. and validate the SDKs supported image format. Some SDKs, only, support certain image format, which can be generated from common format, even by the service providers’ own creator tool from the official site. Likewise, different service providers suggest varied approach in image format areas. Ensure that your app is supported for its appropriate platforms and will run compatibily with others too.

6. Road-mapping 

Explore the sites of service providers and go through their future roadmap. Ask questions such as “What kind of support are they providing?”, “Are they expanding to new features or will they be releasing updates on new SDK features?” and “Is the service provider capable of conducting research in the AR field which can fuel innovation for the years to come?”.

7. Pricing

Most AR service providers offer trial version SDKs, to users, to explore the presenting features. In some SDKs, we should generate key/token, from their official site, after registration, to execute the sample tutorials. While using the trial version, you would get the logo of the providers enclosed.

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While these are some important points to consider you should not disregard others such as Visual Live Search, Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) Technology, Face modeling and Tracking, as they are equally important. Hopefully this article has given you the guidance of how to approach the creation of an AR app and now you can easily get back to building your masterpiece!

Understanding The Basic Difference

A product designer in the Internet space is someone who’s a hybrid between a visual/interaction designer and a web/frontend programmer. This person ideally designs in code. Primarily works around transactional products.

UX designer ideally should be solving for everything that comes under the UX umbrella, including branding, user research, semiotics, information architecture, interaction design. More often than not, this role is equalled to wire-framing jockey or interaction designer.

The difference between “product designer” and “UX designer” are based on semantics mostly, rather than a crisp and widely understood definition. Many product designers consider themselves to be designers who design experiences. Many companies do not differentiate between services and products also as such.

A UX designer is a broader term since you could use it to describe someone who designs experiences that aren’t products, for example, like a check-in experience at a hospital. But “product” these days is a fairly broad term as well, as many people who are “product designers” actually spend their time designing end to end services as well.

A Product Designer is responsible for the following:

• Understand the customer requirements from the Requirements Specification document and start building user interface mockups

• Iterate with the Product Manager and in turn customers to arrive at an interface that is acceptable and deemed most user friendly

• Develop the interface using code (in case of a software product) or create CAD designs (in case of a physical/mechanical product)

• Participate in the development process and monitor if the final outcome matches user accepted designs

A UX Designer is responsible for the following:

• Look at the overall end user’s requirement from an end user’s point of view

• Evaluate what kind of thoughts, feelings and emotions that users go through when using the intended product

• Provide guidelines or suggestion to PM, designers and developers on what could be changed so that the end user feels positive about the experience of using the product

• Work with the Product Manager to understand the customer touch points after delivery and help design the after sales experience for customers

The Definition of Product Designer and UX Designer

The product designer handles the overall function and working process of the product. They are the guardians of user needs. UX designers are responsible for the function of the user interface and user-friendly experience.

Tools for Product Designer

Mind mapping tools: Xmind. It is easy to use and has a concise interface. There is no learning cost.

Sketch tools: paper and pen. It’s simple, efficient, easy to modify, low cost.

Low-fidelity prototyping tool: Mockplus. It is easy to use and quick to interact. It can quickly build low -fidelity prototypes.

High-fidelity prototyping tool: Sketch. It can make rough wireframe more standardized and has good visual effects.

Tools for UX Designer

Wireframe design tools: Wireframe.cc . It has no complicated icons and toolbar. Both of interface style and operation are the minimalist.

Interactive design tools: Adobe XD. It positions itself with a lightweight vector and prototype software. You can freely switch interface design and prototype interaction.

Prototype design tools: Axure Rp. It supports high fidelity and low fidelity. It has good documentation support. The plug-in library of it can be customized.

So, let’s put it forward in a broader perspective: 

Product Designer is yet another term that dances around the Product Management and UX roles.  The title is meaningless without knowing about the context of the product and the complementary roles. Is there a Product Owner? A Customer Researcher? A Visual Designer? Someone from Product Marketing?

As always, start with definitions of what’s needed to deliver successful products, the whole chain from customer discovery and value definition to the business model definition to building the product to launching it to market. Note, many of the implied activities need to happen in parallel, so don’t assume that an extremely talented and broadly experienced person can do everything. Then understand who owns or contributes to which part of the delivery chain. Roles will emerge from there. The titles are secondary.

Xamarin is a robust cross-platform app development framework. Its technology stack is made up of C# and .NET. With the help of the xamarin framework, the cross-platform app development is simplified for Android and iOS platforms as the developers are able to reuse the maximum amount of code. It solves the difficulties many developers face while developing cross-platform apps like separate coding languages and UI paradigms. With Xamarin, you can use C# for iOS, Android, and Universal Windows apps. Let’s get into further details –

• C# – Allows writing your apps in C#. Existing code written in C# can be ported to iOS and Android using Xamarin very easily, and obviously used in Windows apps.
  
• Utilize MVC or MVVVM design patterns – This allows you to develop your application’s User Interface using the Model/View/Controller pattern. You can determine which parts of your application will be using native user interface elements of each platform (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac) and use this as a guideline to split your application into two components: “Core” and “User-Interface”.
  
• Build native UIs – Each OS-specific application provides a different user-interface layer. On iOS, you can use the UIKit APIs to create native-looking applications, optionally utilizing Xamarin’s iOS designer to create your UI visually. On Android, you can use Android views to create native-looking applications, taking advantage of Xamarin’s UI designer. On Windows, you will be using XAML for the presentation layer, created in Visual Studio or Blend’s UI designer. On Mac, you will use Storyboards for the presentation layer, created in Xcode.

Here are the various benefits of Xamarin:

Cross-Platform App Development

Xamarin is a perfect choice for Cross-platform app development. It allows you to build apps for Windows, Android, and iOS apps & also share codes over multiple platforms.

API Integration

There is no need to create different APIs for different mobile platforms because Xamarin allows you to use the same API to build iOS, Android, and Windows applications.

Useful Compiled Code

Xamarin allows you to generate productive and high-performing code that can access every native API. It is very easy to create device-specific applications over different mobile platforms.

Huge community and Support available

The integration process is very easy because of Xamarin. You can easily integrate Xamarin with various SDKs of specific mobile operating systems. It supports different devices that mean you just need to unite and Android SDK and GDK with Xamarin Studio to create an app. Xamarin.Android supports modern devices like Google Glass, Fire phone, and Android Wear, etc.

Shared Code Base

Xamarin Form is a library that allows you to reuse the code multiple times to create a native user interface for Android, iOS, and Windows devices. With Xamarin Forms you get 40+ cross-platform layouts and controls for a complete native interface. 

Summing Up

As contrary to most other cross-platform mobile application development tools, Xamarin allows you to build NATIVE apps running across multiple platforms, and not only this, it integrates the entire mobile application development process. In simpler terms, it reduces by one-third the time, effort, and money for the development of mobile application development.

Do you want to utilize xamarin for building your mobile application? Get in touch with GoodWorkLabs, the renowned product and applications development company in Bangalore. Know more about GoodWorkLabs here. You can contact us here!

The power of a MEAN stack development

A few years ago MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS and Node.js were raising eyebrows individually but now together they are turning heads. This stack has become invaluable to the software industry of 2017 and possesing these skills can make your company an enticing option for bigger sharks scanning the sea out there. So, let’s find out why you should make this switch!

1. Overall simplicity and common structure

MongoDB offers a more flexible and accommodating layer for storing data while Node.js provides a much better nexus for running your server and Express.js comes in with support in standardizing how you build your websites. AngularJS provides a clean way of adding interactive functions along with AJAX-driven rich components, for the clients. Together, they create a clean, coherent mechanism for transferring data from user to disk farm and back.

2. Built for the cloud

MongoDB is made for the cloud. The MEAN stack offers a compelling database layer in MongoDB and it comes equipped with full cluster support and automatic sharding straight out of the box. Initiate MongoDB and it will spread across your cluster of servers to offer failover support and automatic replication. Since, cloud allows the easy development and testing of apps there’s no doubt to not consider MongoDB for your next project.

3. Node.js Simplifies the Server Layer

Navigating through the multiple layers of the LAMP stack can be tough as it has one shuffling through various configuration files with differing syntax. MEAN simplifies this with Node.js. Want to change how your app routes requests? Add JavaScript and let Node.js do the rest. Want to rewrite URLs or construct an odd mapping, use JavaScript. The MEAN stack’s reliance on Node.js converts all this kind of work in one language, and all in one pile of logic. Having everything in one layer = less confusion and reduced amount of weird bugs created by strange interactions between multiple layers.

4. AngularJS is fresh

There are plenty of good PHP-based frameworks that work with MySQL but each is a big different and moving in its own direction, so, for the most part if you wish to perform any actions on the client side, you’re on your own. For instance, WordPress, Joomla and Drupal offer differing strategies, making it hard to switch between them, let alone transfer code from one to another. Appointing one client framework adds consistency and stability. AngularJS’s templating system and logic layers are significantly clearer than what we have seen before, and this makes it a perfect candidate to run your project.

5. Make your code isomorphic

The simplicity doesn’t end with using JavaScript on the server but rather continues with being able to use it on the client side too! Let’s say for example, you write code for Node and decide it would be better placed in AngularJS you can transfer it with ease and be almost certain that it would run the same way. This adaptability makes programming MEAN based apps A LOT easier. Moreover, in terms of staffing for a project you don’t need to look for a PHP expert, a front-end and back-end specialist, it’s all JavaScript across the stack.

6. Uniformity with JSON

MongoDB, Node.js, AngularJS, and Express.js all speak JSON. This helps the data flow neatly among all layers without rewriting or reformatting. PHP may already have the code to import to MySQL data and make it easy to process in PHP but that doesn’t help in the client layer. MEAN uses the same JSON format for data everywhere, making it simpler and more time sensitive in terms of reformatting  as it passes through each layer. JSON’s popularity through the MEAN stack makes it easier to work with external APIs.

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Of course, you can always mix and match! ….if you’re really picky. Plenty of developers use MongoDB with Apache and PHP while others prefer to use MySQL with Node.js. More than that, AngularJS works really well with any server. So, don’t become a slave to the acronyms!

Big Data In Real Life

Big Data is a never ending, never wilting sector of technology that amazes everyone with its capabilities. But still some of us do not completely understand its usefulness.

Let us look at a real life problem to understand the usefulness of Big Data.

McDonald’s serves both cold drinks and hot coffee along with its burgers all day long. But let’s say they realize that the hot coffee doesn’t have enough demand and their raw material which they fill in the coffee machine in the morning is wasted at the end of the day every day.

Now, McDonald’s wants to figure out how they can reduce the losses based on when their customers actually buy hot coffee.

We will assume that the coffee machine of McDonald’s needs to be filled in the morning for coffee to be available throughout the day and you cannot use it as an instant coffee machine. This is for simplicity.

This is a real life example of data analytics. McDonald’s can do two things in this case:

1. Based on the sales figures, they can figure out how much coffee is actually consumed daily. Based on the average consumption of coffee daily, they can then put in the raw materials in that quantity only and reduce the wastage of unused raw materials. This requires you to analyze the data of the sales of hot coffee in the McDonald’s outlet and then figure out how much coffee is sold every day. What are the trends in the sales – are their days or times when the sales go up or down, are there huge spikes or a normal distribution of consumption, etc. Once you have the answers to all these questions, you can tell McDonald’s how much coffee they need to put in the machine every morning.

2. But let’s say the coffee machine uses a lot of electricity and just saving the costs of wastage of raw materials is not enough. In order to make a significant saving, you need to also switch off the coffee machine when the demand is low. Now, based on the time of sale, you need to figure out at what time of the say the sales of hot coffee go up, are these patterns consistent over long periods of time, is there some correlation between the time of the day and the consumption, etc. This will require you to do a statistical analysis of the data based on which McDonald’s will decide what time to run the coffee machines at.

McDonald’s saves thousands of dollars by reducing wastage and optimizing supply in line with the demand. A fairly simple application of Big Data.

Let us cite a few more brief example from our everyday lives. 

1) Every time you log on to Google, Facebook and see ads, they are based on your preferences, browsing history, FB likes/groups, what your friends liked and so on.

– Profiling models and Ad Targeting

2) Every time you try to buy an air ticket online, the prices vary on the basis of the route, demand, expected last-minute demand, how early you book and so on.

– Revenue Management

3) Every time you log on to e-retail sites and look at a product, you’ll start getting recommendations for other products also considered by other visitors.  If you end up buying something, you’ll get recommendations for other products that bundle with it.

E.g. Buy a phone and it will recommend a case or glass protector

– Recommendation Engines

4) If you make ISD calls or STD calls in India, you might get a recommendation for a STD/ISD package.  The idea being to convert what is unguaranteed future income.

Look around and you’ll see the results of Big Data at work!

One more striking example is how the Afghanistan Conflict was better understood by NYU students.

“Drew Conway was a Ph.D. student at New York University who also ran the popular, data-centric Zero Intelligence Agents blog. He analyzed several terabytes worth of Wikileaks data to determine key trends around U.S. and coalition troop activity in Afghanistan. Conway used the R statistics language first to sort the overall flow of information in the five Afghanistan regions, categorized by type of activity: enemy, neutral, ally, and then to identify key patterns from the data. His findings gave credence to a number of popular theories on troop activity there–that there were seasonal spikes in conflict with the Taliban and most coalition activity stemmed from the “Ring Road” that surrounds the capital, Kabul, to name a few.

Through this work, Conway helped the public glean additional insight into the state of affairs for American troops in Afghanistan and the high degree of combat they experienced there.”

Big Data can be applied to any field and can be utilized in many ways. You need to have the vision and the expertise.

Coworking can help increase your productivity

Coworking is changing the way people collaborate at work. Gone are the days where everyone stuck to their cubicles to get work done. Today, workplaces emulate a culture of fun and collaboration, encouraging people to interact with one another and work more closely.

Whether you are a Startup or a Freelancer or a Remote team of a large corporation, it is always nice to work in an environment that is buzzing with motivation and hard working people teamed with a balance of casualness and fun!

GoodWorks CoWork  perfectly provides a work-friendly and motivational environment for any one who is looking to experience a flavor of coworking

Advantages of working at GoodWorks CoWork

There are many advantages when you choose to work from a vibrant and growing Startup community at GoodWorks CoWork

1) Access to events and networking with Investors

2) Flexible work hours

3) No lock-in period or Security deposit to be paid

4) Affordable prices and a variety of options to choose from – either Hot Desks, Private Cabins, Meeting Rooms etc

5) Value added services such as help with Marketing, HR and Payroll, Operations etc.

If you are in Bangalore and are looking to save on huge office space investments, then GoodWorks Cowork is a great place for you! The focus here is help you become successful!

Come visit us at Whitefield (Check for Directions) or call us on 8088707700

Facebook’s Association With PHP

According to the history described on the Wikipedia page for Facebook, Zuckerberg wrote the initial code for Facebook in October 2003.

Consider what other web technologies might be considered, and whether they existed in 2003:

• Ruby existed, but no Rails yet (1.0 was introduced July 2004).

• Java 1.4 with JSF 1.x or Spring 1.0.

• Perl 5.8, but no Catalyst framework (it was introduced February 2005).

• Python existed, but no Django framework (it was introduced July 2005).

• The term Ajax for web programming was coined in 2005, but the use of asynchronous XML requests was still nonstandard, too early to be used with for broad browser compatibility.

• C# 1.0 and .NET 1.1 (C# 2.0 was introduced June 2006).

• JavaScript existed, but no Node.js (it was developed in 2009) and no jQuery (it was introduced August 2006).

• Amazon EC2 was released in August 2006.

• Heroku was founded in 2007.

• Go first appeared publicly in 2009.

The point is that Facebook’s choice of PHP was perfectly reasonable for the time it was created.

And Why Facebook Has Not Done Away With PHP?

The reason Facebook hasn’t migrated away from PHP is because Facebook’s engineers have managed to work around many of its flaws through a combination of patches at all levels of the stack and excellent internal discipline via code convention and style. The worst attributes of the language have been avoided and coding style has been rigidly enforced through a fairly tight culture of code review.  Engineering management has never had to take a strong hand here. This arose largely due to key internal technical leaders just sort of pushing everyone else along.

There is also a lot of industry precedent indicating that re-writing an entire codebase in another language is usually one of the worst things you can do, so at all levels there is a reluctance to do that.  The preferred strategy is to write new components in a decoupled manner using a better language of choice (C++, python, Erlang, Java, etc).

This is easily facilitated by Facebook’s early development of thrift, an efficient multi-language RPC framework.  This also helps avoid the worst effects of PHP: it can be totally avoided in subcomponents where the language is grossly-unsuitable.  The broad effect is that the overall codebase slowly evolves away from depending as heavily on PHP, with the components that are still in PHP being written in tightly-controlled, disciplined ways by veteran members of the staff.

The flavor of PHP used at Facebook, Hack, is very far removed from what we typically think of when we picture PHP. In almost every way it has been ahead of JavaScript. It had static typing, generators, async/await, tuples, anonymous functions, classes, and XHP for a long time, often years before they were available in Node. As a result the Hack codebase is very close in spirit to a modern JS application.

So, to summarize it, Facebook has internally upgraded features of PHP by using its own unique methodologies. Hack, their flavor of PHP is far better than most of the other options and hence they have stuck with it, and are likely to in the near future as well.

Why Python is best for back-end coding & websites

Python has been one of the most popular programming languages among developers. With access to a wide variety of frameworks and libraries, developing web applications on Python becomes easier. Also, Python has been designed keeping in mind OOP (object-oriented programming), thus making Python a perfect choice for coders.

5 reasons to develop your website on Python

In this article, we are going to talk about why it is super beneficial for you to build your company’s website on a thriving software such as Python.

1) Easy to Read and Quick Development

Python is an easy to read language. Unlike others, Python codes are not cramped with semi colons and curly brackets through out. It has a set of rules that guides every developer through the entire process. So in case of any interim development, any developer can pick up the code from where it was last left.

Due to this nature of easy readability, development of the code in Python is very straightforward. It is a dynamic versatile language that allows for quick deployment of projects.

2) Best for Integration and Data Science

Python makes a great choice for any data integration tasks. It is very versatile and has many ready-made tools, thus making it a preferred language either for automation of small tasks or integration and communication of huge data bases and asset management.

Also, Python has garnered a lot of importance in the Data Scientists. It is widely used for scientific and numeric computing and integrating large amounts of statistics data with web apps.

3) Highly Secure

Since Python is built with a purpose to be a simple application, the chances for vulnerability to rise in the language are less. Mostly, languages that use a lot of code are always at a risk of being manipulated. The simplicity of its code makes it a more secure platform.

4) Trusted by big brands

It is a very popular software development language. Most of the big brands such as Quora, Instagram, Dropbox, Reddit, NASA etc have integrated most of their workflows with Python. Due to the ease and availability of frameworks like Flask and Django, Python has become the go-to web development language that most brands are quickly adopting.

5) Multiple benefits apart from back-end management

Python was once highly recommended for back-end developments and integrations, but as we have discussed, the language is so versatile and has so many code libraries that it can support multiple modules. With Python, websites can be highly customized in a way to boost user performance and engagement.

Python is also used for:

• Website Development
• Machine Learning and Data Analysis
• Database management with Django
• API Developments
• Automation and Maintenance

In Conclusion

Thus, Python is the best software language to chose if your business requires a custom website to cater to customer requirements. If you need help in developing your website on Python, then just drop us a quick message with your requirements and we shall get the best minds working it.