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Electric Highways, Highly Effective Programmers, & More…
Welcome to our weekly edition of the Dev Digest where we put together the best links to help you stay on top of what’s happening in the world of software and web development. From top stories to development tips, professional advice, and more, we’ve collected the best...
Java Strings, Overcrowded Buses, & More…
Welcome to our weekly edition of the Dev Digest where we put together the best links to help you stay on top of what’s happening in the world of software and web development. From top stories to development tips, professional advice, and more, we’ve collected the best...
Net Neutrality, Call For Code Challenge, & More…
Welcome to our weekly edition of the Dev Digest where we put together the best links to help you stay on top of what’s happening in the world of software and web development. From top stories to development tips, professional advice, and more, we’ve collected the best...
EXECUTIVE INSIGHTS
Providing Tech Leaders An Outside Perspective On The Business Of IT
Pillars of Software Development Success
How to Deliver Software On-Time On-Budget On-Feature
A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which reviewed 10,640 projects from 200 companies in 30 countries, found that only 2.5 percent of the companies successfully completed 100 percent of their projects. Find out how to avoid this issue.
Agile Methodology For Executives
A Guide for Executives Managing and Working with Agile Teams
This Intertech Executive Brief provides an Agile Methodology Overview with related commentary about how scrum complements many agile principles. This paper will also expand your understanding of how to combine Agile and Scrum for the best results.
Hiring and Working with IT Consulting Firms
What Every CIO Should Know
This Intertech Executive Brief provides insight into selecting an excellent consulting firm that fits your particular needs and how to leverage that consulting relationship for maximum value.
Why Software Gets Delayed & What to Do About It
Developing software is a complicated process that’s difficult to predict and estimate. All the time, we see examples of software projects that start...
Agile Development Projects: Harder to Estimate, But More Cost Effective
Agile is a philosophy of project management that has gained popularity in software development over the past ten years. However, it has applications...
SQL Database Advantages, Tea Leaves Effect, and Even More
Welcome Dev Digest followers! Alongside some good content, we have an opinion article that talks about how the smartphone industry is doing away...
Hello Bot using Microsoft Bot Framework
Bots are essentially apps with no interface. The ability of bots to help faster access and availability across most platforms, less friction to...
Xamarin Tutorial (Part 1): Create a Blank App
Overview In a recent post to software decision makers, I discussed reasons businesses should consider cross-platform native development over website...
Dev Community: SSRS 2016 Report Viewer Toolbar Icons Not Displaying
At Intertech we believe strongly in contributing to and advancing the developer community. That means we're often active members on sites and forums...
A Look at What’s New with dbUnit Release 2.6.0
dbUnit is a mature, free, open-source Java framework for automated testing with databases. It is particularly useful with integration tests for...
2018’s Top Java Tools and Tips
2018 promises to be a big year for Java. Every year, the language continues to grow and evolve. These changes make Java easier to use, scale better,...
Breakthrough Tech, Programming Paradigms, and Much More
Looking for some good content? You've come to the right place. Our developers have their picks for this week bundled into our Dev Digest. Find...
Angular Development #8 – Control Value Accessor
Forms are a critical component to most any web application. While most forms can be completed with the standard browser inputs, sometimes a more dynamic or thematic input can make the difference in a user interface. Angular provides the ControlValueAccessor interface to provide developers the tools to seamlessly insert custom built components that can function just as a standard input. But as we will see, the ControlValueAccessor can provide much more than just custom inputs – it can serve as a gateway to better form organization and reusability within an application.
Angular Development #7 – Provider Scopes & Component Level Services
Note: This post is part of an eleven-part series on Angular development. You can find the series overview here. Overview Angular's development team...
Angular Development #6 – Dynamic Component Generation
Most Angular components are created by adding a reference directly into a template, however there are times where the type of component won’t be known ahead of time and will need to be dynamically created. Often this is seen with modal windows, application level alerts, or other event driven messages, but could also occur when multiple copies or instances of a component need to be created. In order to create these components you will need to take some extra steps and precautions, but it can open the door to far more advanced functionality in an application.
SQL Database Advantages, Tea Leaves Effect, and Even More
Welcome Dev Digest followers! Alongside some good content, we have an opinion article that talks about how the smartphone industry is doing away...
A SQL Oddity, JavaScript Monads, and Even More
In this Dev Digest episode, you have the opportunity to learn about several different things. Included is a piece on a potential problem with SQL...
SQL Database Fundamentals (On-Demand Video)
Today, our friends over at Microsoft Virtual Academy provide a tutorial that lays a foundation for learning SQL Server database basics. Scroll down...
Exploring Entity Framework Core 5
- .NET Framework
- .NET Core
- Xamarin
- ASP.NET Core
- WinForms
- WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
- UWP (Universal Windows Platform)
- ML.NET (Machine Learning .NET)
- and Entity Framework (EF) Core.
Microsoft Is Changing The Release Strategy
Microsoft is changing its release strategy for .NET. After .NET 5.0 is released, they will continue to release a new major version every year in November. Microsoft is also changing its support strategy for .NET with Long Term Support (LTS) versions. Read the article to find out more.
If you are using .NET, speak with Intertech about complete application development & keeping your team up-to-date! Davin Mickelson & Intertech are ready to hear from you!
TECH INSIGHTS
Principles of Good Software Design
Author: Tim Star – Intertech Consultant
Software design is the most important phase of the software development cycle. Thinking about how to structure code before you start writing it is critical. Changes and updates will inevitably arise. Good software design plans and makes allowances for added features, algorithm changes, and new integrations.
TECH INSIGHTS
C# Tutorial: Understanding C# Events
Author: Davin Mickelson – Intertech Instructor
In this C# event tutorial, I will explain how delegates are the foundation for C# events and show the two primary delegates that Microsoft has given us for creating our own events. I will also show you how to subscribe to your own events and even pass data back to the event handlers.
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