Do you know about a new way to get money for that idea that has always been brewing in the back of your thoughts? It’s called crowdfunding and has proven a successful way to get all sorts of projects up and running. Everything from board games to movies has been started with crowdfunding. But what about software? Read More
Leapin’ lizards! It’s Leap Day! Just about every four years anybody who was born on Feb. 29 has a birthday. It all has to do with our calendar not quite matching up with the time it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. So some Pope named Gregory did his best to fix things and we now use the Gregorian calendar. Read More
Ever sit back and look at the code you have just written and marvel at its elegance? Sometimes, you are just able to break apart a problem into the right places and solve it with a beautiful piece of code that does just what it needs to do and no more. Elegant code is a goal that can be strived for, but should everything we write be considered elegant? Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE: Since we last visited the subject of using NOLOCK to make database queries go faster, many other developers and DBAs have weighed in on the subject, adding warnings on its misuse. So the question now is, should you use a WITH (NOLOCK) on tables in your SELECT query? Also, additional SQL Server 2016 resources have been added to this blog. Read More
Ask around on the street, and you will find that most people would say that they are “bad at math.” While we could spend an entire post talking about why that’s a bad thing and the ways to fix it, we should focus on the fact that these people who are self-identified “bad math users” probably use complex computational software on a daily basis: Microsoft Excel. Read More
Development of software inherently carries risks, so it should come as no surprise that every developer and product manager at an ISV or any company creating an application has to address these threats. How successful our business can be will depend on how well we mitigate these risks. Read More
Now that your software product has taken off and customer expectations continue to change, you probably are discovering that the legacy BI tool – and maybe even your application – aren’t scalable and require too much developer time to maintain. It’s time for an upgrade and with a team of developers in-house, you may be tempted to take on this project yourself. Read More
Developers pride themselves on having long technical resumes that contain plenty of technical skills. Sometimes, it is a good idea to show a potential employer that you have some other dimensions to yourself by adding additional skills that make you stand out among the other candidates. Read More
It seems that everyone has figured out the best way to get direct customer feedback: a questionnaire. You get them at the grocery store, you get them at the drive through, you even get them at the movie theater, so why shouldn’t you be giving one out as well to see how your business is doing? Here are some best practices for creating your own B2B survey to see how your customers think that you are doing. Read More
Agile is gaining in popularity among IT developers and departments around the world for a reason: To put it simply, Agile works. When you use it, your projects run more smoothly and time constraints are more manageable, no matter what project management framework you are using.
Project managers are seeing that agile works. Trending now in SD Times is a look back at 2015 that says “Agile was the New Norm in 2015,” which shows the popularity of this approach to developing software projects.
