I am proud to announce the addition of Jim Pruetting to the Application Development team here at Caxiam Group! Jim recently completed dominated a three month trial period where he proved he could back up all his tech talk by writing clean, secure, optimized code for large scale projects.

Jim is a recent Full Sail grad and brings with him a wave of new technology to add to our existing web development offerings. He is proficient in PHP, ColdFusion, JavaScript, XHTML/CSS, MySQL, SQL Server, jQuery, Linux Server Administration and a big list of other technologies but is quick to remind all who will listen that he is first and foremost an object oriented web programmer who simply will not allow himself to be defined by a specific technology or platform.

We knew Jim was a good fit early in the game when he was able to convince our team to change version control systems, AJAX frameworks and explain in detail the benefits of the nginx URL re-writing engine.

While his gaming skills leave much to be desired he has been a great addition to the team over the past three months. We hope to have Jim with us for the long haul and look forward to his growth as an application developer object oriented web programmer!

Welcome aboard Jim Pruetting!

Eric recently posted about a client’s handwritten thank you note for some custom ecommerce development we did. After reading his post I wanted to expand on a few items he referenced and offer some reasons for why we build custom ecommerce websites rather than using a boxed turnkey solution.

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For the past six months I’ve been agonizing over where our new office should be located.  The agony has never been related to determining what factors should be evaluated so much as it’s been related to the prioritization of these factors. I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that there is a “best” choice among any given number of options. You can imagine how difficult this has made my life considering it’s not true in most cases.

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