2009 Mugo year in review

01/13/2010 10:14 am

Peter Keung

2009 was a busy year at Mugo, and we were actually a bit surprised to find that we had worked on over 40 different websites and web applications. eZ Publish has enabled us to provide a wide variety of powerful and flexible web solutions. Before 2010 speeds by, we'd like to take a moment to look back at a sampling of the types of solutions we've built (and continue to build), as well as a few other successes from the past year.

  • High performing: sites using content delivery networks, the Varnish web accelerator, and eZ Publish's multi-level caching system
  • Multi-site: a system running dozens of eZ Publish websites on one install
  • Multi-language: several sites that support multiple languages at the content level, editing tool level, and template level, as well as supporting a right-to-left website display
  • Integrations: payment gateways (PayPal and Beanstream), Salesforce, ExactTarget e-mail, Google Maps, Google Analytics
  • Media: integration with Brightcove video delivery, ad servers
  • Data migration: managing the importing and exporting of hundreds of thousands of content objects, ranging from encyclopedia content to crowdsourcing auctions to video libraries
  • Finance: a time- and timezone-sensitive financial auctioning system, with invoice generation, an internal messaging system, whitelists and blacklists for bidders and sellers, and a login system similar to online banking
  • Workflows: custom user logins and registration, delayed publishing, content expiry, multi-uploads, custom edit handlers, WYSIWYG Online Editor customizations
  • E-commerce: several webshops, state-based tax considerations, custom account handlers, coupons, bestseller lists, pay-per-download
  • User interaction: Twitter integration, Star Rating, ShareThis, custom RSS feeds, forums, intranets and extranets

Other 2009 Mugo successes

New team member

Near the end of 2009, we looked to add another full-time developer. It was a long, tiring process with a lot of good candidates. Benjamin Kroll was the last person we interviewed and we were happy to discover that he was clearly the one we were looking for.

New mugo.ca

When you're busy with client work, your own website is often at the bottom of the priority list. However, we managed to find the time to crank out a new, simple but efficient mugo.ca, which lets us showcase a bit of what we do and also has this blog where we can share our thoughts.

eZ Publish trainings

As long-time eZ Publish experts, we flew out to deliver 5 on-site eZ Publish trainings, helping other development teams and content managers to realize the power of this Content Management System.

Clients

This may seem cliché, but it's true: we've enjoyed interacting with our clients as much as implementing their technical solutions. Thanks for a fun year!

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We have been using this team for editing, consulting, support and training services in North America for the last 3 years and we still do. The team has shown their expert knowledge of our systems, and is responsive and dedicated. The services they provide include expert consulting on eZ Publish towards large, high-traffic enterprise customers.

CEO Aleksander Farstad , eZ Systems

I relied on Mugo for the development of two complex web applications, and I was extremely impressed with their accurate estimates, consistent and timely delivery of production code, and commitment. They have the rare blend of business knowledge and deep technical expertise, and they excel at listening to business requirements and translating those requirements into intelligent and reliable software products. They are able to work on all aspects of software solutions -- front end/UI, core code, modules and extensions, application integration, and infrastructure -- and they are extremely capable in all of those areas. I highly recommend Mugo to anyone in need of a competent and dependable technology partner.

Co-Founder Graham Tillotson, Tandem, Chicago

Mugo maintains and develops new features for the Rasmussen Reports website, www.rasmussenreports.com. We are impressed with how efficiently they deliver high quality solutions that exactly fit our needs. The Mugo team understands the complexity of our high traffic website and was able to improve our site's overall performance, as well as its search engine rating. For our site's subscribers, Mugo quickly and efficiently developed many new features for our Premium Section.

The Mugo team is great to work with, and I look forward to a long and productive relationship.

Stephen W Smith, Interim CEO, Rasmussen Reports

If you ask me what is the first thing you think of about the Mugo team, I would say that they listen.

For a customer, the worst thing is to work with a partner that doesn't listen to you. That doesn't understand your points. That simply doesn't listen and try to help you.

Daniel Iribarren, ClearCap

Mugo Web is not another service provider. They are your partners.
One of the things I really like about the Mugo team is that they care about my project and myself. That is why I call them my partners.

Daniel Iribarren, ClearCap

Mugo Web is not just a group of geeks. They are a team of highly knowledgeable technology and business people.
They understand that they are helping you to design solutions to satisfy or solve business problems. And not every developer is able to deliver that. I have worked with more than 10 different let's says production centers and what they delivered to me was geek stuff. Not business solutions.
Mugo Web will help you to use geek stuff to solve business problems.

Daniel Iribarren, ClearCap