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Top 5 Reasons to Choose Bespoke Software

1. Tailored to specific business needs

Modern Web Development is Weird

As a developer these days it's important to move with the times. In our day jobs here at DP towers, we uses all sorts of different technologies and aim to find the best fit for our clients projects - some use "traditional" server based languages like PHP (both with and without it's associated frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgniter and friends). We build and integrate with REST APIs, GraphQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and whatever "the next big thing" ends up turning out to be.

Manual import into Perch blog

Following on from the re-indexing post, here is some code we've used to create blog post entries within Perch CMS

Reindexing a Perch blog

A quick note on how we've just replaced a missing index on a Perch site belonging to one of our clients.

Perch Runway Review

First of all, a disclaimer: we love the Perch CMS. Due to its flexible nature and ability to retrofit into any design, without the need for following the semantics of a "template language", we have used it extensively since around 2012. For those who aren't familiar with Perch, I strongly advise a visit to to https://grabaperch.com to see what all the fuss is about. Read more