Dear Switchbox Team, It is with much gratitude that we write this letter of thanksl Our experience with Switchbox has exceeded our expectations. Switchbox helped us bring our Local Level vision into reality. We value your ability to not only listen but to translate our dream into fruition. You were able to bring out personality […]

Switchbox is currently in the discovery phase with a new client, Farber Specialty Vehicles. Farber is a Custom Coach company located in Columbus, Ohio that has been building custom coaches for over 80 years.  A large portion of their customers are in the health care field and their custom coaches are used as mobile health […]

Company culture has become a huge topic within organizations. Understanding what brings in good employees and keeps them around is an added advantage to an employer. While most companies, at one point, may have never even considered the idea, it seems like an unavoidable topic in today’s businesses as more and more potential candidates ask […]

One of the most difficult things a developer faces is choice- which language, framework, method etc. and when to use something or when not to use something.  The stress for most developers is palpable, and the choices are a crippling part of this anxiety.  Enter ‘convention over configuration’. At its core, the concept of applying […]

One of Switchbox’s client, AppRiver, headquartered in Gulf Breeze Florida, specializes in email and web security and protects their users with the latest spam and virus protection possible.  They offer web security, email encryption, and Office 365 backed by 24 hour customer support.  Attention to detail can be found throughout AppRiver.com and their 404 page […]

Here at Switchbox, we have two development teams, focusing on different languages and technologies. On one side, we have a .NET team focusing on Microsoft technologies – Windows, SQL Server, and C#/ASP.NET. On the other, we have an open-source team primarily working with Linux, MySql, and Ruby on Rails. All of our developers are great […]

When we talk about user experience, or UX, we tend to think about wire framing. This is for obvious reasons: it is simple, cheap, and does a good job of conveying what we will provide to our clients. Even still, wire framing cannot provide the details clients need to make informed decisions and fully appreciate […]

We all know that people have bad habits. Some people may bite their nails, swear, stress eat or drink too much coffee. We’ve all had our fair share of forming and continuing bad habits within our own lives. While we aren’t really sure why or how a bad habit is formed, it is clear that […]

People Seem to enjoy using their Fitbit; It Magically makes staying in shape fun. I hear people talking about how they won X competition or are ahead in Y group almost daily in our office. Yet, the Fitbit itself does absolutely nothing to help you exercise. It doesn’t weigh anything, it doesn’t suck fat out of your blood stream and it doesn’t increase your heart rate. You just slap it on your wrist and go about your day like normal.

What it does do is measure progress against a goal with regular updates. This helps achieve a bigger result. Per this famous quote from Peter Drucker, “What gets measured gets done”.

One of the big buzzwords that everyone has probably heard of when working with, or working as, developers is Agile Development. A large sect of this methodology does not directly impact a client and is more how developers work, as such we will gloss over those for now. Agile, as it relates to clients, be they big businesses, mom and pop shops, or single-person operations, is excellent when it comes to getting client involvement, engagement, and most importantly getting a client what they want and need, whether or not they can articulate it without seeing progress as it goes on.