Stoy Solutions blog

We are very excited to announce that we now have one, and soon a second Zend Certified Engineer. For those who are unaware, Zend is the PHP company supporting much of the community and the main accreditation body.

In times of financial worries and unclear future for a lot of companies, we are confident that professional development, organisational knowledge and continuous improvement will be what differentiated good software houses from secondary players. With only 230 certified developers in the UK, we have proven again that we are not just innovating the way we work, but also conforming to the highest industry standards.

Having said that, we’ve also recently announced partnership with two very well known payment gateways: Protx and Nochex. Having worked for while with Protx on www.freightsearch.com, we have the benefit to our customers from our close relationship with payment gateway. We are currently in talks with Barclaycard, who can offer either an end-to-end solution, or going through Protx / Nochex.

A little bit of internal information from the Stoy Kitchen:

we are researching ways of easily deploying social networks. Interesting topics are scalability and inter-connection of micro social web communities (let’s say of around 100 people) i.e openID, etc.
we will also looking into the world of usability and web site perception. We will be able to offer free quality review of your websites, as part of our proposals. The general feeling is that there quite a lot of focus on “usability” as the only measure of website quality (combined with functionality and design). There are, however a few other aspects, without which we wouldn’t have a complete picture. A few post on this topic coming soon…