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Maritha's career began in the mid-eighties and has been a journey filled with diverse experiences. She started as a developer, using early languages such as COBOL and SQL, at one of Sweden's largest international technology companies. Later on, she transitioned to becoming a customer and account manager, and now she holds the position of sales manager.

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Great insights from a senior developer at Fastdev. Sharing a unique mix of knowledge and experience after 5 years working with Rugvista.

At Fastdev, we know that our success is driven by the expertise of our software developers. That's why we prioritise the recruitment of highly experienced developers and ensure that each one undergoes a rigorous testing process led by our Senior Technology Lead, Alexander Senko.

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Exciting news from fastdev HQ! We’re thrilled to announce our latest service, AppExpress.

In this article, we explain how we go about building mobile applications and how we cost them.

When should I use native and when should I use cross-platform mobile app development? In this final post we try to answer this question and show when and why you might choose one, or other of these processes when developing your app.

What are the pros and cons of native and cross-platform app development? As the mobile market grows, what are the strengths and weaknesses of the main processes we use when it comes to development.

Should I choose native or cross-platform app development? As the mobile application market has developed, so too has a large set of tools for creating mobile applications. These tools can be divided into two large groups; native and cross-platform. .

Is good UX a requirement you can do without? As our UX design team builds, we check in with the Fastdev UX hive mind (UXhm) to discover just why our sharpest, smartest, and most successful clients pay serious attention to UX.

For many, React Native is an invaluable asset when it comes to developing mobile applications. To find out more we caught up with Fastdev Frontend developer Gleb Komarov.

At Fastdev we stand united with our Ukrainian and Russian colleagues and friends for peace. Our people are utterly sickened by what we are living through, many of us are affected directly, and many indirectly.

There’s nothing better than a stress-free, silky smooth and functioning e-commerce site. A site with all the grace, beauty and strength of a racehorse. Perfect. But how do you avoid an e-commerce nightmare before the Holidays.

The ultimate goal of user experience (UX) design is to make the experience of interacting with a product—whether it’s a website, app or physical object—as easy, relevant, and meaningful as possible for the end user.

On every complete design team you will find a UX Designer, a UI Designer, and a Front-end Developer. But what’s the difference between a UX designer a UI designer and a frontend dev.

Is Java dead? Are you thinking of using Java for your next project? If you’re like most people, you probably have a lot of questions. And given the influx of newer technologies, you might even feel confused.

Now, as an Amazon Web Services Select Consulting Partner, we are pleased to say that we’re uniquely positioned to help businesses accelerate their journey to the cloud—and take the fullest advantage of all that AWS has to offer.

Paxport has been helping airlines and tour operators create new revenue streams and upgrade the passenger experience with a suite of technology-based solutions since 1994.

When it comes time to transfer your application to a cloud platform, choosing the right cloud migration strategy is the key to success.

It’s critical for businesses to keep costs under control or even at a minimum. Sometimes, the cost of a cloud architecture, more specifically Microsoft Azure cost, can represent a significant proportion of total operating expenses.

Currently, many companies, which are using conventional on-premise VM based or VDI hosting, are facing significant challenges. Some of these challenges include.

Modern cloud computing resources like Amazon Web Services provide businesses with many valuable tools that enable them to optimize processes and create new value for their customers.

We’re pleased to welcome a talented new team member to Fastdev this month. Patrick Stalenhoef will step in as Account Manager, with a specific focus of caring for our corporate customers.

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GDPR In our work, we manage our customers´s systems that often contain the personal information of their users. There are several rules for the safe handling of personal data.

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Agapi Club provides a digital subscription service for renting its uniquely designed and versitile boats moored in ports across Stockholm, Gothenburg, Helsinki and Mallorca.

We will join in with another two programmers on the project to visualize housing in Thailand for our customer Diakrit. The project starts on November 6th.

A new project has been initiated with Recipo to develop their reporting service to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and other authorities.

Nikita was founded in 2008 with the ambition to be an intermediaries of qualitative consultants. The company has independent consultants within IT and management.

Eligosoft makes interactive advertising for all types of screens. Eligosoft Media Tool uses existing metadata with its automated intelligence engine to provide the best integrated return on interactive ad placement.

We are helping the Norwegian company Gameon with the development of its e-commerce in Magento and conduct tests. Gameon has Norway’s largest range of air guns, soft guns and guns. The store has over 3,000 products and news comes in every day.

We have previously worked with Aptilo AB and are now entering with a tester on halftime. Aptilo works internationally to help service providers create growth, among other solutions through various public wifi services.

We will start a new collaboration with CAB Group AB in August.

In the beginning of July we embarked on a project to develop the user experience for the start-up company Greenelys app. Greenely works with a great environmental focus on bringing down consumer electricity consumption.

We have started a project with Hollistay AB to help them develop a new service to search and book campsites throughout the Nordic region.

We have previously worked with Aptilo Networks where we have installed a large team. Now we are partnering with another developer to cover the increased demand.

We have been working together with Sportmore, Sweden and the Nordic region’s  for largest online sports store. They have a very wide range of sports articles for women, men and children.

Our new customer Why do it AB is a production agency in Nyköping. The agency works to develop efficient and environmentally conscious communication to customers with a focus on digital platforms.

A new customer for us is CarpetVista AB which sells all kinds of carpets you can imagine. The company was started in 2005 and expanded rapidly. Today it is the largest carpet store in the world.

Our assignment with Inläsningstjänst AB continues. This means continuous work on the development of the new app which will help children and adolescents with dyslexia.

We are currently launching a project review for Piggi AB. Today, it is a challenge for many companies to reach a younger target group, as this group called “Gen Z” does not like advertising and deliberately opts out of it.

We are launching a design project with City Gate, which develops and operates advertising services for Swedish media houses online. City Gate develops and operates multi-channel advertising services.

Private lending site Lendo will launch in Denmark and later Poland. We helped them earlier with platforms in Norway and Finland and will now also help them with platforms for their expansion to Scandinavia and Europe.

We started a new project with Cubimo AB. Ten years ago, when Fastev was founded, Joakim Fohlman at Cubimo was our very first customer. We are happy that he has chosen to continue working with us.

Right now, we are assisting with an important development of sound equipment for hospitals around Sweden together with Neovius AB.

We are entering a new project with Kitab Sawti, who were formerly our customers and wish to continue to develop their service. Kitab Sawti provides audiobooks in Arabic –  meeting a long missing and highly demanded service in the market.

Cloetta Sverige AB is now a new customer. The project involves integrating a Planogram application from SAP to M3 for Candyking. Cloetta has a strong position in the Swedish confectionery market and offers a wide range of chocolates, sweets and nuts.

A new year with new challenges! We started the new year by welcoming Ant Island as new customers. Ant Island is a network-based company with a focus on helping companies achieve success.

Startup company Hedvig AB is one of our new customers. We have previously worked with one of the founders who has now chosen to work with us again, which we are very happy about.

We set up a new project for a customer of HSTD which is an advertising and digital agency. A consultant will work with us on the project on an hourly basis until January 2018.

We are launching two new projects with our customer Fotoware with whom we have worked over ten years. Fotoware is a Norwegian company with clients in 46 different countries in the world.

Pensionera.se is the first in Sweden to digitize the entire pension flow.

Diakrit was founded in 2001 and is today a world leader in the real estate industry when it comes to 3D visualization products, sales apps and consulting services.

Our .NET developer Oleg Gavrilov is sharing his experience about GraphQL.

We are now sending even more programmers and developers to Scania CV in Södertälje and expanding our mission for them. We work with the development of Scania’s autonomous trucks and data analysis.

We help our new client Inläsningstjänst AB to development a new app, which will help children and adolescents with dyslexia.

We have good news, we are appointing another developer to the project for Kitab Sawti AB, which we have previously worked on. We can now develop their service for audio books in Arabic at a higher rate.

Entrepreneur and game developer Sunflower Hedin has started a project that we will enter as a partners. The project is to develop an IQ game for both children and adults, sol-IQ.

Tomorrow we will start the exciting work of testing the start-up Dreamler‘s software.

Skillstarter is a marketplace for courses.

A new project started on May 23 with Aleris X AB, which is a private health care development company. Aleris X acts as a hub that works to develop digital services and tools in healthcare.

My Driving Academy Sweden AB is a Swedish startup that we just started a collaboration with. We will help them in their exciting journey of digitizing driving services.

We start cooperation with the startup company Kitab Sawti AB. Kitab Sawti means “audiobook” in Arabic and the company buys rights to, produces and distributes just Arab audiobooks. One of the investors is Sven Hagströmer.

To be sure the system is deployed appropriately our project team always adheres to the following steps.

We are starting a project at the startup FODI Skandinavien AB. Fodi is Sweden’s first online local grocery store with locations in Danderyd and Bromma. The company was founded in 2016 and wants to change the way Swedish people shop for food.

We are very happy to have received our first customer in Germany. The company is called Grover and provides a platform where you can rent and test new electronics and technology via subscription.

We have received a new project from Point Services Sweden AB which aims to develop their e-commerce, implement woocommerce and design the website. Point Services is a Nordic supplier of IT services, with headquarters in Stockholm.

Recently we built Tryggo – an iOS and Android mobile application. This is a help and rescue service to help each other in danger.

We created a landing page based on WordPress for Agapi Club. Agapi Club is a membership Club that opens up completely new possibilities for those who want to enjoy a boating life like buying boats, booking them and other additional services.

This year Fastdev’s annual off-site conference took place in the Emirates.

Testing is a vital part of development process.

In our work we use only the most  popular and modern technologies to meet all customers’ needs, and we select the technology and CMS  that fit the system (application) purpose.

We built a mobile application (both under iOS and Android) that offers different campaigns like every 8th product is free of charge. Given that, each product has a separate calculator  – bread, coffee, breakfast, lunch).

Hypertext markup language (HTML) is the backbone of any web based system, without which a web page doesn’t exist. It is of utmost importance that every site we develop is well organized, using the latest HTML and CSS standards.

Different types of software products have their peculiarities in design. We take them into consideration when developing a product and use them according to the type of a system/application we are developing.

We created the Lyckohjulet system for Wildfire which their clients can use to improve collaboration between employees.

Our testers have successfully passed the international exam and now the guys are ISTQB Certified Testers.

Next step in product development is design. UX design and UI design work closely together and both are crucial for a software product.

We’ve already told you about the first integral part of software development process – project management. Another essential step is specification.  .

Our work with customers inspired us to write a series of blog posts about how a development process looks like in Fastdev.

To get a target customized website it is important that you understand what your audience is interested in, and how to present it in the best way possible. The better your website speaks to your customers, the greater is the chance of conversion.

We recently launched the new website for Nikita. Nikita is a consultant agency who helps companies recruit new employees within the areas IT, project management and business management.

The concept of “virtual reality” has been known for many years, but during this time it seemed to be far, a bit artificial and sci-fi. However nowadays the age of VR-technologies is coming whether wish we or not.

Not long ago the Internet was accessed almost exclusively from our computers. Now the Internet has “invaded” most of our devices: mobiles, tablets, and even household products. Can we even imagine ourselves without our new mobile “assistants”.

We live in a world where extrovert qualities such as outgoing and social are described in almost every job ad. But how often are introvert traits mentioned.

The story of how Fastdev was created begins in 2004 with a product called Fastpool. The product was an idea initiated by the owner Lennart Källbäck who had the idea to put the right person at the right place at the right time.

Are you developing an iOS app? Or are you responsible for iOS app distribution? Then this post is for you.

When you need to make your business run, you have to choose a developer with the right skills. However sometimes, you might be limited in budget and time to hire the right candidate or have your current staff keep up with the latest IT trends.

We have launched a new web application for Wildfire. Wildfire is an attitude and evaluation agency that helps companies strengthen attitudes and implement their strategies.

We recently launched the new website for Carpe Adventures. Carpe offers tailor made and unique adventure trips to dream destinations around the world. We got the opportunity to help them with both design and development.

In late February it was once again time for our yearly company trip. This time we went to the beautiful city of Sochi in southern Russia, known for the 2014 Olympic Games – and now Fastdev’s company trip.