How I Constructed a Plane to Deliver Snacks to Me While I’m Jogging A few years ago, I saw an article about Zipline, a medical supply distribution company. They use an ingeniously designed plane system to deliver blood and other vital medical supplies to remote hospitals in Uganda. I thought that was the coolest use […]
Wow, what an amazing event – thanks to YOU! Our CEO, Mark, steps in to donate when we had an opening and helped ensure all spots stayed filled. IntelliTect was a first-time blood drive host, and while we were told collecting 34 units of blood was considered a “successful” blood drive, they said they’re typically […]
“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 at our office […]
The pandemic is redefining normal, forcing us to move out of our comfort zones, look for potential pivots, and optimize the circumstances into an opportunity. This response to the pandemic takes on several forms for us. We’re Expanding! While most of our team continues to work from home, we’ve begun construction in the basement of […]
Making a difference in Kenya and Tanzania, one mother at a time. The IntelliTect team is humbled to be a small part of the hard work and unconditional love pouring out through Compassion International’s multiple Child Survival Programs (CSP’s) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Partnering with Compassion for the past eight years, IntelliTect has helped fund multiple […]
Are you causing your team harm by following outdated advice? “Impossible,” you think to yourself after finishing the latest chapter of Dare to Lead, Brene Brown’s lauded leadership book. You trust your friend Meg’s recommendations, and she told you that you needed to read it, and you are. So be it. Glancing out of your […]
Use Azure DevOps Extension Tasks to add a Visual Studio Extension Publishing Task to your pipeline. Microsoft recently released the Azure DevOps Extension Tasks tool for Azure DevOps that makes it easy to add a Visual Studio Extension publishing task to a pipeline, but I wasn’t able to find any layman’s documentation on setting it […]
Using an older .NET framework? Check out these system.threading tips to directly manipulate threads without the task abstraction. While writing the 7th edition of Essential C# 8.0, I realized that it was time to pull out the content on system.threading- focusing instead on Parallel Extensions (System.Threading.Tasks). Parallel Extensions is generally preferred because it allows you […]
How to find columns and tables in an Oracle SQL Database when you don’t know the schema. One of the great things about working at IntelliTect is we have the opportunity to get a lot of “cross-pollination” in ideas – even ideas concerning the Oracle SQL database. Recently, I was with my coworker, Chris Finlayson, […]
Vue is becoming a very popular front-end framework, but .NET Core 3.1 still doesn’t officially support it. Thanks to VueCliMiddleware, it only takes a couple of steps to get set up. We will start with an empty ASP.NET Core 3.1 web application template, use the Vue CLI to generate a Vue Client App and then […]
