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Deliver Value with the AWS EDP

Joshua — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:21:51 +0000

The AWS Secret to Saving You Big Bucks Did you know that your enterprise can save between 6 – 9 percent on AWS cloud services when you pay in advance? The AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) can save an organization thousands of dollars when it commits to a predetermined annual spend of nearly $1 million…

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VIDEO: Building Modern Tools with System.CommandLine

Joshua — Wed, 12 May 2021 01:54:59 +0000

Learn How the System.CommandLine Library Can Improve the Tools You Build Most .NET developers start their career off by writing the time-honored program “Hello World.” This simple console application paints a picture of simplicity when building out console applications. However, building out a robust command-line application that delights your users takes significantly more work. Features…

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Video: Developing with DevContainers

Joshua — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:13:58 +0000

Quickly Create a Development Environment With DevContainers The goal behind DevContainers is not to solve the “works on my machine” problem. Rather, it allows developers to create a consistent development environment for projects. It’s important to note that these environments can be reused or shared with other team members. Check out the full video from…

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C# 9 VIDEO: Improvements and Features

Joshua — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:54:26 +0000

C# 9 Essentials C# 9 was released in November of 2020 and is packed with features to improve your development experience. The new record types of C# 9 greatly simplify creating simple classes and bring first-class support for immutable types. The release also improves the language through additions to the pattern matching syntax, allowing for…

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IntelliTect Today: Creating IntelliWiki

Joshua — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:18:17 +0000

Becoming a Stronger Team While Designing Our First App Coming Soon to the Microsoft Teams App Store When the pandemic hit, we knew many of our customers would shift their technology priorities so that their company could weather the storm. The IntelliTect leadership refused to lay any of our team members off during this uncertain…

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IntelliTect Today: Help Save Lives with Our Blood Drive

Joshua — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:00:11 +0000

Blood Drive 2020 “My 80-year-old dad kept attempting to break quarantine to get out and donate blood. I really wanted to do something to put his mind at ease, and help too.” The IntelliTect team is proudly partnering with the Red Cross to hold what we expect to be the first of many blood drives…

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POSTPONED: You’re Invited to Our Open House

Joshua — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:24:19 +0000

A Note About Our Open House *** Due to new government mandates and considering the safety of our team and our guests, we are postponing our celebration until it is safe to gather together. After a year of labor and countless setbacks, IntelliTect’s new headquarters is complete. We’d love for you to come enjoy this…

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Microsoft Development Technologies Demystified

Joshua — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:30:01 +0000

Crash Courses in Current Development Technologies Watch our free videos for a crash course on current development technologies. Mark Michaelis speaks at IntelliTect’s recent Visual Studio 2019 event. Last month, we held an event to provide updates and training on the latest development technologies from Microsoft. We’d like to share the content. Click the links…

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Your Partnership Matters (Video)

Joshua — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:05:17 +0000

Partnership Creates Life-saving Transformations in Uganda Photo courtesy: International Justice Mission® IntelliTect clients, thanks for being indirect allies in our worldwide philanthropic efforts! We devote a significant portion of our profits to the fight against extreme poverty around the world. Lives are changing as a result of the care our philanthropic partner organizations provide. Their…

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A Thanksgiving Thank You to Our Clients

Joshua — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:13:44 +0000

Client Spotlight As we approach Thanksgiving at IntelliTect, we’re thankful for our new corporate headquarters and a growing IntelliTect team. We are grateful for all of our new business across the country and the ongoing clients that we’ve partnered with for years. Often, our individual team members appreciate the client teams they work with daily.…

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We have two Microsoft MVPs!

Joshua — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:21:31 +0000

Recognizing Amazing Individuals We are so proud to announce that Kevin Bost, one of our senior developers, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) as a result of his contribution to Developer Technologies! Also, in recognition of his exceptional technical community leadership, Mark Michaelis has been awarded the MVP Award. This is the 23rd year…

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Employee Spotlight – Mike Curn

Joshua — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:51:25 +0000

Enterprising SDET With a Passion for Improving Mike Curn, senior SDET at IntelliTect Mike Curn may not be our team member with the longest beard, but he’s been with IntelliTect a long time — six years this past July. With a background in 3-D Animation, this programmer enjoys asking the why behind a process, be…

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Charity Spotlight: NAOMI Community

Joshua — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:48:29 +0000

NAOMI Frees Local Families from Isolation and Poverty Curious about our Non-Profit Partners? NAOMI Community (formerly Hearth Homes) in Spokane Valley, Washington, actively pursues their vision of being a “community where every family is free from isolation and poverty.” This passion aligns beautifully with our philanthropic vision of giving freedom to those without hope through…

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Employee Spotlight: Grant Erickson

Joshua — Tue, 21 May 2019 00:56:20 +0000

A Puzzler Who Uses Software to Maximize Relationships Whether you’ve worked with them for years or have never met our featured employee, this column will continue to introduce you to the many faces of IntelliTect. For this issue, we featured a developer with a keen sense for solving complex puzzles: Grant Erickson, CTO. Grant’s desk…

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Video: Machine Learning including Agile Machine Learning

Joshua — Fri, 26 Apr 2019 21:37:00 +0000

Get Ready: High-level Primer on Machine Learning, Including Azure Machine Learning Brian Uptagrafft, senior software engineer at IntelliTect, recently finished a project where he used machine learning to teach computers to accurately read electric meters. The task was tricky and required a lot of data, some creative problem-solving and a multi-faceted approach. He was intrigued…

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Video: What’s New in ASP.NET Core 2.2

Joshua — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 19:59:39 +0000

Who Doesn’t Like New Features? Michael Stokesbary, senior software architect and trainer at IntelliTect and C# instructor at Eastern Washington University, was excited about the performance enhancements made to ASP.NET Core 2.2. He wrote a blog about the simplified web API authentication and decided to share what he learned in even more detail with the…

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Why We Celebrate the Platypus Awards

Joshua — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 18:16:14 +0000

How Does IntelliTect View Success? During a recent employee meeting, our CEO, Mark Michaelis explained how he sees success and that it isn’t some mythical destination. So often, great developers seem impossible to find and are referred to as unicorns because, even in fairy tales, there are scarcely any of them. And while it’s important…

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Employee Spotlight: Andrew Scott

Joshua — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:41:34 +0000

An Analytical Thinker Who Crafts Innovative Solutions Whether you’ve worked with them for years or have never met our featured employee, this column will continue to introduce you to the many faces of IntelliTect. For this issue, we featured a bright innovator who caught the coding bug as a sophomore in high school: Andrew Scott.…

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Video: Is Xamarin Forms the Right Choice for Your Next App?

Joshua — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:25:04 +0000

Perks of Using Xamarin Forms Using Xamarin Forms is a quick win according to Kevin Bost, Xamarin certified senior developer at IntelliTect and C# instructor at Eastern Washington University. Xamarin is Microsoft’s platform for building mobile applications. Using a shared C# codebase, developers can build android and IOS apps at the same time using the…

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Potential New Features of C# 8.0 Exposed

Joshua — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 21:09:06 +0000

Mark Michaelis’ Love for C# Can’t satisfy your thirst for C# knowledge? Hang around Mark Michaelis long enough and you’ll get up to speed in no time! Mark has been traveling within the US, and as far as Scandinavia, spreading the C# love. You might have seen him at Visual Studio LIVE! events in Chicago…

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The ‘Elegant-Innovative-Excellence’ of C#

Joshua — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:52:44 +0000

Why C# Should Be Part of Your Tooling Arsenal C# (pronounced C Sharp) is a language used in combination with Microsoft’s .NET framework for developing applications. “The open-sourced nature of C# and the framework that comes with it is pretty unique,” Mark Michaelis said during a recent interview on Code Chat. “What really makes C#…

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Employee Spotlight: Kelly Adams

Joshua — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:22:04 +0000

An Engineer with a Fanatical Devotion to Quality Whether you’ve worked with them for years or have never met our featured employee, this column will continue to introduce you to the many faces of IntelliTect. For this issue, we featured a skilled engineer who enjoys coding in the deep-end: Kelly Adams. The world of computer…

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Tech Consultants Demystified

Joshua — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:11:23 +0000

How Do You Pick the Best Development Team? Developers use languages and technologies that most of the general population have never heard of. What should a company look for when searching for the perfect team to help create their next project? IntelliTect has been called a Microsoft Consulting shop, and although we believe Microsoft has…

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IntelliTect Today – FastTrack Your Success

Joshua — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:01:20 +0000

Need a Fast-Track to Get Your Team up-to-Speed on Microsoft Products? This past September, IntelliTect was selected by Microsoft to participate in the “DevOps FastTrack Airlift 2017” given by the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) team. We received updates on the VSTS products as well as details behind Microsoft’s own DevOps journey. Now, we conduct…

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IntelliTect Today: Reducing Enterprise Costs

Joshua — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 20:27:31 +0000

Innovation Today Day-to-day operations and capital projects can be a drain on any budget. Our IntelliTect engineers created a suite of products that streamline required work throughout an enterprise. The suite provides environment and process management, configuration of complex applications, and allows for the duplication of accounts. This past February, our CEO Mark Michaelis and…

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IntelliTect Today: Smart Meters for the Inland Northwest

Joshua — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 21:38:13 +0000

Smart Meters Since 2006, IntelliTect has been a custom development partner for Avista Utilities. We have been a strategic collaborator in the development and project management of a long-awaited customer portal that will bridge the communication gap between Avista, their customers, and the community they serve. The integrated Avista team celebrates a successful “Go Live”…

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Employee Spotlight: Brian Jones

Joshua — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:57:03 +0000

Welcome to Our First Employee Spotlight! Each issue will feature an employee of IntelliTect. Whether you’ve worked with them for years or have never met our featured employee, I hope this column will continue to introduce you to the many faces of IntelliTect. For this issue, we featured someone who’s been with IntelliTect long enough…

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