KnockoutJS & JQuery DataTables: Avoiding KnockoutJS Performance Issues With Large Data Sets
A recent project required us to wade back into KnockoutJS‘s somewhat stagnant and troubled waters. ...
14 December, 2017
Application Development
Move Over Promises – Async/Await Is Here
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...
16 June, 2017
Looking Forward to Software Development in 2017
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...
18 January, 2017
Enable IntelliSense in JavaScript
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...
06 December, 2016
Why I Love TypeScript 2.0 And You Should Too
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...
07 October, 2016
A Bad Date With Internet Explorer 11: Trouble With New Unicode Characters in Javascript Date Strings
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...
29 August, 2016
App Settings in ASP.NET Core and Azure
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...
25 August, 2016
Task and Async: Magically Wrapping Returned Objects into Tasks
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...
22 August, 2016
TypeScript Default Parameters and Destructuring As a Substitute for Named Parameters
--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...
01 August, 2016
Quick Fix: Inject Static, UTF-8 HTML Content With Byte Order Marks into MVC Razor Views
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...
01 April, 2016
Exploring Angular Material
Google has created Material Design, a design language for mobile and web applications. From color palette, position and size of elements, to user interactions and state transitions, Material Design provides a solid framework for any application. In addition, Google has been hard at work...
20 March, 2015
Top 7 Problems CSG Pro Solves for Clients
We solve business problems with modern technology solutions. Most often, our clients and new prospects ask us for help with improving relationships with external or internal customers, or making their employees more productive. Here are 7 common scenarios we hear everyday from our clients: ...
07 March, 2015