development Blog Articles

Sep 24

Best Friends Forever

Agile teams are at their best when the team has a culture of collaboration. One of the most important relationships is between Product Owners and Software Developers.

Sep 2

Intro to RXJS

A Brief introduction to the powerful cross platform RXJS.

Aug 21

Developer, Know Thyself!

Understanding the role of desires and feelings in creating products

Mar 6

Off to the Races: Race Conditions to Avoid in a Two-Way Live Sync

A look at some types of race conditions and ways to avoid them.

Feb 7

Cleaning Local Git Branches

Removing Local GIT branches with No Remote

Nov 14

Are You Getting the Most Value from Your Development Team?

Having clear goals is critical for maximizing value

Oct 11

Choosing a Javascript Framework

There are a lot of choices when starting a web project. How can you be sure you made the right one?

Jul 22

if(this.humbleDeveloper === Agile)

How agility is reflected in your code and humility

May 30

What is GraphQL?

Replacing REST with GraphQL.

Apr 30

Portable Apps

Make your life lightweight and secure with portable applications!

Apr 3

The Default Pseudo Class

Staying Healthy With the Active Pseudo Class

Learn how to LOVEHATE with pseudo classes.

Feb 21

Team Pulse

Build an iOS app to connect Apple Watch to AWS IoT

Feb 6

Coffee Bot

Let the office know when coffee is brewed with the press of a button

Feb 4

They are Millions!

Inserting millions of items with just a few statements in C#, tips and tricks.

Oct 8

Let's Get Social!

Leveraging AWS Lambda for social media sharing!

Oct 2

"Hey Siri, what's my AWS spend this month?"

Use Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12 and AWS Lambda to fetch the AWS spend for the month.

Mar 9

Mobile Push Notifications on AWS

A step by step guide to using AWS to send mobile push notifications.

Dec 21

What makes C# great?

Take a look at Centare's contribution to the first C# Advent Calendar!

Dec 11

.NET Core on the AWS Cloud9 IDE

Learn how to build and run .NET Core code with the AWS Cloud9 IDE.

Nov 8

Bit Reading in Go

Learn about the motivation and process behind writing your own BitReader in Go!

Oct 27

AWS, IoT, and Centare

Simply and securely deploy, manage, and scale IoT solutions with AWS and Centare.

Oct 9

Jack of All Trades Master of One

Find out what it takes to be a T-shaped developer, and why it should matter to you.

Sep 27

Should Software Developers Be Licensed?

In other engineering disciplines, engineers are often required to undergo a licensing process. As software becomes responsible for everything from heart monitors to stock exchanges to missle guidance systems, should software developers take up licensing in their profession?

Sep 20

4 Tips for Blazing Fast ASP.NET Core Applications

I’m a huge fan of ASP.NET Core. It’s a great iteration on the ASP.NET platform and it should be your default choice for any new web development. I’m also a big fan of apps that don’t take a week to load.

Sep 6

How Do You Choose a Library?

The massive and rapid growth of the open-source community has made our lives a lot easier, saving us time and effort with a plethora of freely available packages.

Aug 30

What Neat Tools Do You Have in Your Back Pocket?

While everyone has a favorite IDE, we all have less important, but still extremely helpful little tools. These tools won't make a project successful on their own, but can make a job feel a lot smoother. We asked some of our developers what their little lifesaver tools are.

Aug 7

Perusing C# 7.1

Earlier this year in March -- Visual Studio 2017 was released. With this the world was given C# 7. In this post we will peruse C# 7.1, the first incremental release while C# 8 is being fleshed out.

Jul 31

Salesforce Apex Solution Using the Strategy Pattern

The Salesforce development ecosystem has many characteristics that are unique when compared to the java and .NET development environments that many developers are familiar with. Here is an example of applying the Strategy pattern to solve a problem when records are merged in Salesforce.

Jul 5

The Specter of Technical Debt Looms

Too much technical debt will kill your momentum, but most technical debt is invisible to users. This presents a conundrum. How do you pay off technical debt, which is usually invisible, while also delivering useful features to users?

May 15

Source Code Branching Strategies

What is your preferred source code branching strategy, and why? Our experts weigh in.

May 10

Tyler Explains... Continuous Delivery

If there’s a buzzword more popularized and misunderstood than Agility or DevOps, it’s probably Continuous Delivery.

Apr 19

Reinventing Myself With Salesforce

Reinventing Myself with Salesforce

Apr 17

100% Code Coverage or Bust?

While I can appreciate the idea of setting a lofty goal then promoting and pursuing it with decisive enthusiasm - my viewpoint has evolved to question setting a global edict or goal without consideration for the details of the individual project.

Apr 5

Exploring C# 7

Expressiveness Redefined & #notasugly

Mar 16

Racking Your Brain with Rust

After hearing a little bit about Rust my interest was piqued and I dived right into a project writing a Gameboy emulator.

Mar 14

Who Wants to Talk About Ethics in Software Development?

Are we as software professionals guided by a set of ethical standards?

Mar 13

JavaScript Spotlight

We polled some of our in-house experts for their take on these competing techs to help illuminate the differences.

Feb 20

What Makes a Maintainable Test?

If you've tasted the sweet sweetness of a test-first style of development and continuous delivery, you already know that automated testing is also IMPORTANT.

Jan 30

Why Do We Create Automated Tests?

Here’s some benefits that I have found come from carefully writing automated tests.

Dec 30

A Call for Collaboration In Our Code of Ethics

For those not aware, the Association for Computing Machinery is currently revising their Code of Ethics.

Sep 1

Angular2 Http with RxJS Observables

I wanted to take a moment to highlight (IMO) one of the key services of Angular2, the http service.

Sep 1

Tutorial for Angular2 with MVC 6 on ASP.NET Core 1.0

The purpose of this post is to establish ourselves with a working environment geared towards development on ASP.NET Core 1.0 through Visual Studio 2015.

Jul 20

The Power of the global.json

I wanted to focus this post entirely on one specific enhancement to Visual Studio solutions, enter the global.json.

Jun 24

Keeping the Development Flow

This post is chock-full of good suggestions that any developer can follow to minimize disruption.

Jun 10

Top 10 Software Development Blogs of 2015

We operate in Scrum teams to offer transparency into the project, reduce risk and time to market.

Jun 7

Salesforce Mobile SDK QuickStart

Swift-ly Access Salesforce data in iOS.

Jun 2

RecyclerView

In iOS development, UITableView holds an important and prominent place at the table. Apple has consistently used UITableView throughout iOS since the very first release of the iPhone and subsequently the SDK.

Feb 15

ASP.NET Core 1.0 Unit Testing

With ASP.NET Core 1.0 applications, *.csproj and *.vbproj file extensions no longer exist — instead there is the *.xproj file extension to take their place.

Jan 29

Cookie-Driven Development

Proving the ideas of pair programming, producing software in increments, reviewing shippable software and adapting quickly to customer feedback came from making cookies.

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Dec 10, 2020

Microsoft’s .NET 5 For Your Organization

Microsoft released version 5 of their .NET software development technology on November 10th of this year.

Jun 17, 2020

The Cost of a GraphQL Migration

GraphQL has become a popular API for web services that replaces traditional ReST APIs.