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IntelliTect Achieves Microsoft Specialization: Migrate Enterprise Applications to Azure

Holly King — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0000

When you trust a partner to move your enterprise applications to the cloud, you deserve confidence that your systems are in the hands of proven experts. The Microsoft Specialization for Migrate Enterprise Applications recognizes partners who consistently deliver complex migrations with precision and care. For our clients, this specialization means you gain a team dedicated…

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Building Smarter Software with Consumer-Grade AI

Meg — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0000

AI is everywhere, but is it really changing how we build software? Sure, it’s making developers faster, powering chatbots that can answer questions like a real person, and helping users find information faster than ever. But here’s the question I keep asking myself: What new things can we actually build with general, consumer-grade AI tools? Let…

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Garden-Variety Realtime RAG

Clayton — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:07:45 +0000

Enriching Voice to Voice Generation with On-Demand Knowledge Inspired by our marketing manager Rob’s recent post on leveraging AI in personal applications, I decided to try OpenAI’s Realtime API for a practical project: creating a garden helper for my wife and me. But this experiment also demonstrated the broader power of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG),…

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Getting Fit with the Help of AI

Rob McFarland — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 20:04:54 +0000

Does This Sound Familiar? You work all day in front of a computer, sitting for hours on end. You know you should be more active, but between work demands, family responsibilities, and the need for some downtime, finding time or motivation to exercise feels nearly impossible. You’re aware that being sedentary isn’t good for your…

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How IntelliTect Integrates Cybersecurity into Every Line of Code

Phil Spokas — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:06:21 +0000

Imagine this: A competitor has gained access to your sensitive data—trade secrets, financial information, employee records—all because of a small vulnerability in your software. It’s not just the breach itself that’s concerning, but the long-term damage caused by stolen intellectual property, leaked strategic plans, or the exposure of your customers’ personally identifiable information. In a…

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Get Started with Coalesce: Simplifying Frontend and Backend Setup

Grant Erickson — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:11:50 +0000

In our first episode of The Coalesce Podcast, we dive into the basics of using Coalesce, a powerful framework that simplifies web development. In this blog post, we’ll break down the key steps discussed in the podcast, giving you a clear guide to get started with Coalesce, from setting up your environment to launching your…

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AI vs Beethoven: A Symphony of the Future with James Lowe and Grant Erickson

Rob McFarland — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:08:21 +0000

IntelliTect is proud to sponsor the upcoming Beethoven vs. AI concert with the Spokane Symphony, where classical music meets cutting-edge technology. In a truly groundbreaking event, audiences will witness an AI-completed version of Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony, performed alongside a human-completed version. This one-of-a-kind concert will take place on January 18-19, 2025, at The Fox Theater, and…

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How to connect to SQL Server LocalDB on Windows 11 ARM with .NET

Grant Erickson — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:34:12 +0000

If you’re like me and running Windows 11 ARM on a Snapdragon processor with SSMS 20.2, Visual Studio 17.11.2, and .NET 8, you might have experienced difficulties connecting from a .NET application to the LocalDB database using traditional connection strings. Some users have also reported issues connecting from SSMS to LocalDB on ARM, which is…

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Integration Testing in Flutter: Part I

Joe Riddle — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:59:00 +0000

Here at IntelliTect, we love building mobile apps. We’re quite fond of frameworks like Flutter, Xamarin, and .NET MAUI that help developers create native mobile apps with a single codebase, helping you launch your next app into the app store faster. Building an app? Give us a call! I recently worked on an app using Flutter…

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Observing Python: An Introduction to OpenTelemetry Metrics

Joe Riddle — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:14:31 +0000

Python is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. OpenTelemetry is a modern collection of tools and specifications for adding telemetry to your software. Today we’re going to learn about using OpenTelemetry with Python. Pillars of Observability Designing a software application to be observable is table stakes in modern software development. Observability is a…

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So, You Want to Be an Architect?

Phil Spokas — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:23:42 +0000

The opinions in this article are my own and formulated from a lifetime in the software industry. You’re a dev, maybe a few years into your career, and you’re working on a project for which some architecture consultants have been brought in to review your solution. They make a few recommendations, collect some money for…

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Our Guide to Streaming with NVIDIA Broadcast

Benjamin Michaelis — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:00:13 +0000

Streaming in OBS Without a Physical Greenscreen If you are anything like me, when you read Microsoft MVP Kevin Bost’s article on creating a virtual greenscreen with OBS on Teams, you got pumped to try it out. Then you eventually ran into a situation where you just wanted to record yourself or stream in general,…

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Employee Spotlight: Empowering Teams with Georgia Gillie

IntelliTect — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:32:38 +0000

Fostering Powerful Communication through Positivity Georgia Gillie exudes determination and strength both in the office and when training in the gym. She lives the characteristics she looks for in a company, bringing drive and transparency to her crucial role as IntelliTect’s human resources (HR) liaison. “I look forward to making sure that I’m part of…

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Announcing IntelliScholar Grand Prize Winner Ben Schreiber

IntelliTect — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:22:24 +0000

Local IntelliScholar Joins the IntelliTect Team for Summer Internship Following the success of last year’s IntelliScholar launch, the IntelliTect culture crew offered the scholarship again for the 2022 academic year. IntelliTect hosted their second-annual IntelliScholar celebration for their grand prize winner, Ben Schreiber, a recent graduate from Cheney High School. “As someone interested in…

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Demystifying Agile Project Team Intercommunication

Reese — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:50:28 +0000

Composing the Perfect Agile Project Team A software project’s complexity is proportional to the agile project team’s size. The problem of team size is not specific to software engineers; people in other industries, such as music, deal with it as well. One of the most significant constraints to successful project completion is poor communication within…

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How to Fix the NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID Error

Austen — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 18:01:08 +0000

Don’t Let Replacing the Expired DST Root CA x3 Bring You Down If you are using an older Mac OS X version to browse the web, it’s likely that you recently started seeing "NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID", "Your connection is not private", "Clock expired privacy issue", "Safari can’t verify the identity of the website", or a similar error…

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Creating a Notion Progress Bar with Variable Formulas

Austen — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:28:08 +0000

Don’t Copy Formulas: Make Them Yourself With this Power-user Technique! Update: As of August 2022, progress bars are built in; however this post is more about formula design than progress bars, so read on! The beauty of Notion.so is that it offers so much flexibility in how you can manage and view your data. Much…

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ExifTool: Recovering All Microsoft People Tag Metadata

Grant — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:34:18 +0000

Necessity of ExifTool Need to recover your Windows Photo Gallery metadata so that you can easily sort your photos in current editing software? Find out why you need ExifTool. Windows Photo Gallery’s People Tags feature recognized facial regions within an image and allowed users to tag it with a name. By doing so, Photo Gallery…

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Architecting a Cyber-Physical Office Space

Grant Erickson — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:52:07 +0000

Implementing an Integrated Cyber-Physical System Utilizing Open Standards and Inexpensive Components Cyber-physical systems are transforming the way we view and interact with everyday objects and processes and have led the way into the 4th Industrial Revolution. These systems hold the promise of revolutionary advances in fields from medicine to public safety to manufacturing. Who would…

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Turning Off IE Enhanced Security From the Command Line

Mark Michaelis — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:55:54 +0000

Using Command Line to Turn Off IE Enhanced Security For the most part I have much of the install for Windows 2008 operating system and programs automated (unattended). However, one thing that I found a little more difficult to find was a command line way to turn off IE’s Enhanced Security (manually turned off from…

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