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03Sep

Adding React to ASP.net MVC 4 with Webpack & Typescript

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This blog post is intended for .NET Framework (.NET 4.X). If you’d like to do the same on .NET Core, take a look at this post. Recently a customer asked us to add some advanced user interface features to a legacy MVC 4 web application. For a number of reasons outside of the scope of […]

08Apr

Automating Deployment of Angular Apps

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angular, build, octopus, teamcity

Automating deployment is the easiest way to create a repeatable continuous delivery process. A popular stack for automating deployment of .NET applications includes Git/TFS as source control, TeamCity for automated builds and Octopus Deploy for automating deployments. Using the same process for your Angular front-end applications, unifies your overall deployment process. Here’s how to set […]

06Apr

Continuous Delivery – The first thing your consultant should do

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consulting, continuous delivery

What is continuous delivery? Continuous delivery is a software engineering practice wherein software is built and deployed in small chunks, and in rapid succession. A continuous delivery pipeline is the repeatable deployment process that enables continuous delivery practice to result in actual deployments to a testing or production environment. Setting up a continuous delivery pipeline […]

06Apr

Mobile Apps – Which technology is right for you

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Apps, Hybrid, Native, Progressive Web App, Responsive Design

Mobile apps are at the top of every clients wish list these days. Often though, they have no idea why they want one, or what technology is best for building them. The purpose of this infographic is to help answer the question “which technology is best for my mobile app needs?”. Definitions Native – Native apps […]

04Apr

Time Tracking Tools – 5 Things to Consider

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BSD Time, Products, Time Tracking

Time tracking is a necessary evil for any person or agency that trades hours for dollars. Whether you’re a freelance designer or developer, or a full-blown consultant shop, it is critical to your revenue stream to ensure that each hour spent is properly tracked. It is equally important to your customers to know where time […]

03Apr

Why Voice User Interface is Hard

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Smart Speaker, User Interface, Voice

Voice, they tell us, in the next big thing in user interface (UI) design. Record sales of voice assistants, including devices like Amazon’s Echo, Google Home and Apple HomePod, indicates a clear trend in the direction of more voice engagement. Even with the current trends, however, voice has not taken off in the way that […]

02Apr

Revolutionizing Web Forms with FormVoice

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Forms, FormVoice, Voice

Introduction Humans have been writing things down since at least 7000 BC. Starting out with stone, shell, or wood, humans moved on to paper around 200 BC. Somewhere along the way (though nobody thought to record when) people started using forms to keep track of information. Forms are a natural way of collecting and organizing […]