DAVID BERGLIN (BBSI) - How to Reverse Engineer a Power BI PBIX File You and your team build great Power BI reports: complex, insightful, and beautiful reports. On Tuesday, the team is out for an extended lunch (tacos) when the boss asks for...
According to a 2018 study from Best Innovation Group and OnApproach, 45 percent of credit unions do not currently have an analytics strategy in place. Over half of those allocating budget to analytics were planning to spend less than $100k. Only 15 percent planned...
A recent project required us to wade back into KnockoutJS‘s somewhat stagnant and troubled waters. ...
JavaScript developers have suffered long enough. The wait for asynchronous functions is over. Here's what you need to know to use the new feature today. Really Good Browser Support While not all browsers support Async/Await (async functions), current versions of major browsers are ready for your...
As an application developer, 2016 has treated me well. The year brought us new technology and platforms allowing our team to rapidly create software at a faster pace and with greater ease than ever before. 2017 is going to be a great year...
Some developers rely heavily on intelligent code completion for their development workflow. If you're developing outside of a powerful IDE like Visual Studio, you may only be aware of "smart" code completion. Because JavaScript is loosely typed and many JavaScript developers don't mind monkey patching where...
JavaScript has been a tremendous tool for front-end developers over the past 20 years. And with NodeJS we can leverage this powerful scripting language in new ways and on both ends of the wire. However, the more our applications are dependent on...
The Problem I recently discovered an interesting issue with Internet Explorer (IE) 11 after taking IE 11 on a date with some cross-browser testing. Some lazy JavaScript code I'd written to calculate and display calendar dates were rendering as "Invalid Date" in various...
While building an ASP.NET Core app, I came across the question of how to override application settings after deploying to Azure. Here I will review how application settings are managed in ASP.NET Core and follow on through modifying those values after we...
References Task Async Await Like many developers working with Microsoft's MVC platform, we have frequently leveraged the trio of C# language features, Task, await and async, to help improve performance of long running, I/O blocking processes in our Controller actions and Repositories. When working...
--VIDEO TRANSCRIPT-- In this video I'll demonstrate how to set default values for function parameters. Some programming languages let you define a function with default parameter values like this: public void AddToCart(string productName, decimal price, int quantity = 1, string currency = "USD") { // logic...
Use Case Sometimes we need to allow non-technical users the ability to edit portions of a web page rendered with the ASP.Net MVC Razor view engine in a production environment with editors other than Visual Studio. To facilitate the use of plain text...