Category: Web Development

There are two mistakes that organizations make when doing usability testing. And once those mistakes are made, two things are certain: either end users won’t get an application they can actually use or, if they do, it will cost more and take longer. Organizations often make a fundamental mistake by thinking of usability testing as […]

If you’re considering taking a Microsoft Official Curriculum course (or your company is considering sending you to one) you should know that it’s a good choice for both of you. The most obvious benefit of taking a Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) course is that you’re getting information about Microsoft technologies from the source. Coupled with […]

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 […]