Power Apps AI Builder: The No-Code Way to Drive Productivity
Build powerful and intelligent applications for your business processes with the new, low-code AI Builder toolset for Power Apps. ...
30 March, 2020
Application Development
Your Legacy System Costs More Than You Think
Upgrading your legacy system might seem like a costly investment. But, have you thought about the hidden costs of not modernizing your workforce?...
23 March, 2020
How to Reverse Engineer a Power BI PBIX File
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...
01 December, 2019
Out-of-the-Box or Outside of the Box: Getting the Most From Your Core
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...
22 October, 2019
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
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