Category: Web Development

Cross-platform technologies are popular right now. Microsoft seems to be embracing non-Windows OSes—e.g. porting flagship projects such as .NET and SQL Server to Linux/macOS. Most of this activity is around server and mobile technologies. Windows still has a commanding share—89% in 2016)—of the desktop, with macOS on just under 10% of desktops in the same […]

Angular 2 Material (officially just Angular Material but I wanted to make it clear) provides an implementation of Google’s Material Design on the Angular 2 platform. If you are not familiar with Material Design then you really should visit the Material site. For the purposes of this post, let’s just say that it is a […]

Facebook recently released an alternative to Node Package Manager (npm). It’s called Yarn and, according to the developers, is designed to improve on npm in the following areas: Speed Determinism Security Let’s examine each of these claims in more detail. 1. Speed Yarn claims to be a faster than npm. I ran a test where I […]

Yes, you can have security and performance! Microsoft has long used the same “object oriented” approach to security within its various “object namespaces”. SharePoint is no different. And Microsoft does have some SharePoint Security Best Practices you may want to consider. Objects and Security Ah… what is an “object namespace” you ask? The Microsoft platform […]

Adopting a DevOps way of managing releases can reduce risk and improve your applications’ reliability. But, first, you need to make sure that you’re building applications in a way that makes sense for a DevOps environment. Moving to a DevOps environment means that you develop an automated pipeline that allows you to reliably configure and then release enhancements […]