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Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind

Skyler — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:35:18 +0000

Website accessibility is sadly an overlooked design element causing millions of users to have the inability to perform common tasks. Tasks including attending online classes, paying bills, doing taxes, and ordering a pizza are all real-world examples that resulted in legal action. Unfortunately, it seems many sites design and develop first then add accessibility later.…

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Coalesce Demystified

Grant Erickson — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:36:51 +0000

Understanding the Coalesce Rapid-Development Framework for ASP.NET Core Web Applications Looking to develop an ASP.NET Core web application quickly and efficiently? Meet Coalesce – a framework designed to boost your productivity when building interactive web applications. Web development is filled with time-consuming boilerplate development tasks. Using your Entity Framework data model, Coalesce scaffolds all the…

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Demystifying Scrum

Allen — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:18:09 +0000

Your Beginner’s Guide to Agile Development and Scrum Do you nod along when someone talks about a retrospective, stand up, or user story, pretending to know what they’re talking about? Or maybe, you’re currently on a Scrum team and don’t want to ask the obvious questions? Well, then, this article is for you! It will…

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Demystifying Terraform Deployments

Jenny — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:10:39 +0000

Exploring the Advantages of Azure Terraform As a software engineer at IntelliTect, I have found enormous customer benefits when developing and automating cloud infrastructure using Terraform. I love to learn, share, and teach about new and emerging technology. I especially enjoy discussing ways to help customers develop cloud solutions. I’ve found that development services that…

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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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Demystifying System.CommandLine

Kevin Bost — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:40:43 +0000

Overviewing the System.CommandLine Library "All apps are command-line apps" – Jon Sequeria, Principle Software Engineer on System.CommandLine. It took me a while to wrap my head around Jon’s statement, but the longer I have thought about it, the more I agree. It is possible to invoke apps from the command line, but many apps do…

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Demystifying the SDET Unicorn

Mike — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:50:37 +0000

You Need an SDET Unicorn: Automation Engineers and Automated UI Tests Won’t Save You. I have a potentially controversial opinion about my job. The popular concept of the Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) role is broken by modern development practices. I don’t say that lightly. After thirteen years in the industry and eight of…

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Demystifying Coding Guidelines: Intro to Coding Conventions

Kevin Bost — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:54:44 +0000

Why Developing Coding Standards for Your Team Matters Programmers spend a lot of time reading code. Estimates of the percentage of daily tasks vary, but all results show that the time allocated to reading code is several times larger than the amount of time spent writing code. Conceptually, this makes sense. With the sheer amount…

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Demystifying the Requirements-Gathering Environment

Chris — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:24:44 +0000

Define Problems and Voice Client-Clarifying Questions With Confidence A non-trivial part of a successful software consultant’s job is understanding what the client’s problem is. A significant impediment to that problem is walking away from discussions and requirements gathering meetings knowing you don’t understand the issue but feel uncomfortable addressing it. This article will describe techniques…

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Demystifying Economic Stereotypes with Factfulness

Mark Michaelis — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:24:18 +0000

How Accurate is My Perceived Worldview? While traveling overseas before COVID-19, I had my family read Hans Rosling’s book, Factfulness, Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Before we began reading, each of us took the Factfulness Quiz – an activity I highly recommend. Consider taking…

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Next-gen Tech Demystified

Kelly — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:02:11 +0000

The Future Looks Grand There are several future lines of development I am looking forward to coming to fruition. Technologically, we seem to be near several inflection points that will radically change our lives in the future. The following is a quick list of some next-gen high points I’m excited about. 3D Metal Printing Sintered-metal…

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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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Agile Demystified: 7 Metrics to Assess Your Agile Practices

Grant Erickson — Tue, 21 May 2019 00:53:28 +0000

Evolution of Agile Development Agile development has evolved to become the norm for software projects. Many organizations are practicing agile with fantastic results. However, sometimes results are less than stellar. Assess your company’s agile practices with this quick checklist. Score 1 point for every answer you agree with. 1. Number of unit tests: Increasing Your…

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Software Solutions Demystified: Buy or Build with Confidence

Grant Erickson — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:23:31 +0000

Buy or Build Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to make the important ‘buy or build’ decision many times. In retrospect, some commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products have worked out wonderfully. Others have been less than stellar. I use the following matrix to help make my decision. Here are some key points to consider for…

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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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