Top 7 Translation Management Tools for Software Builders

As a business, we’re regularly trying new products and tools to help us with our software development.

Especially when building customer-centric products, the software text matters. Providing software in our customer’s native language impacts the user experience a lot. 

Therefore, we evaluated different platforms for software localization and wanted to share some of our findings.

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Jira vs Trello – an Overview on the Best Project Management Tool

Sometimes, I feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content in project management.

Especially when looking at the tool side of project management. I see new tools popping up every other day.

With Jira and Trello – we looked at two primary project management tools, their benefits and drawbacks, and most importantly, their main differences.

Since Atlassian, the vendor of Jira acquired Trello, both project management tools come from the same company. But they are still competing over the same target group.

So, if you’re considering switching to Jira or Trello, this article is the right place.

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How to build a cloud-based SaaS application

More and more SaaS application businesses are taking off the ground today. And it’s great.

The SaaS business is a super-fast growing industry attracting more and more people and companies. These organizations are more and more floating applications in the cloud. Scaling in the cloud has some essential benefits and risks as well.

In this article we are going to show you how to start building a cloud-based SaaS architecture, dealing with issues of scalability and what this means for your SaaS application.

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Designing a language switch or selector: Examples and best UX/UI practices

Building a global SaaS product isn’t easy. You have to localize your product, translate your website, and make sure that everything’s still up and running.

And there might be a major UI problem, which looks like a tiny thing at first but is actually something to think about a little longer. What I’m talking about is the visualization of selecting a language.

How can you visualize the option to change languages so that your global audience can choose which language they want to use?

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15+ unknown & free WordPress plugins for developers!

WordPress is the leading content management system out there in basically any industry. Emerged as a basic CMS for blogging, it evolved to a powerful publishing tool for any kind of website or web app. Whether you’re working on company websites, online shops, or social communities. Everything’s possible with WordPress. Indeed, there are many great and mighty WordPress plugins out there for improving your websites.

In this article, I’m going to show you 15+ unknown and free WordPress plugins every WordPress developer should know when building up his/her WordPress portfolio.

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“I didn’t know Atom could do that!”

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Atom, the code editor from GitHub, was initially released in May 2014 by the team of GitHub. As an open-source editor Atom became hugely popular over the last two years. And for some, it’s the Sublime killer. And I’m not exaggerating.

Today, I’m going to show you the best tips, tricks, and shortcuts while using Atom. So better go pro with Atom.
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How to test your application with 5 users before you launch!

Building a successful digital product means developing products with your users and customers in mind.

89% of customers will switch to a competitor if they are not happy with your service or digital offering.

It’s as simple as that.

But the good news is: You only need to test your digital product with 5 users before you launch.

Only 5 user tests help you identify most major usability issues and, therefore, help you build better products.

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How to collect feedback & track bugs with the new Jira Experience!

In 2002 the software world looked quite different.

Bugzilla was the main bug tracking tool available, and a small company named Atlassian just launched its software, named Jira.

Jira, in reference to Gojira (Japanese for Godzilla), was intended to be a modern alternative to the market leader Bugzilla. Fast forward to 2018: Jira is used by more than 75,000 customers globally, who use JIRA for their entire software development lifecycle.

While all sorts of department and teams use Jira, its core use case is still its issue tracking and ticketing functionality.

And with this article, we show you how to collect feedback from colleagues, and track bugs with Jira integration more effectively.
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