by Chad Michel | Jul 7, 2020 | Our Engineering, Software Engineering
The adage “Many hands make light work” is something we often take for granted. If we get a lot of people working together on a particular task, we can quickly knock it out. Think of stocking shelves as an example. The more people you have, the quicker you...
by Chad Michel | Jun 30, 2020 | Our Engineering, Software Development Tips & Tricks
Automated testing has come a long way over the years. I remember using NUnit back in the early days of .NET when you needed a separate application to run unit tests. Since then, support for automated testing has improved to the point where we can run unit tests right...
by Chad Michel | Jun 23, 2020 | Our Engineering, Software Engineering
Sometimes it isn’t easy to get everyone onto the same page. Everyone on a development team can think we are all moving in the same (and right) direction. Still, we often have different underlying assumptions about how certain features will be implemented. When we...
by Chad Michel | Jun 16, 2020 | Our Engineering, Software Development Tips & Tricks
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is my favorite Zelda game. Actually, it is one of my favorite games of all time. In my opinion, it is nearly perfect. It’s not too difficult, but it also makes you work. Lots of things to do. Nice 2D graphics. Just a very...
by Chad Michel | Jun 9, 2020 | Our Engineering, Software Development Tips & Tricks
Xamarin Forms is a handy UI framework. It provides a way to create a UI that works on both iOS and Android. But it has something else that is novel: it gives us an easy way to create a screen with mock data. With Xamarin Forms, you can preview within Visual Studio...
by Chad Michel | Jun 2, 2020 | Our Engineering, Software Engineering
Despite the virtual nature of this year’s Microsoft Build developer conference, there were a lot of great updates and news to be shared. There’s no way I could cover everything in one post, so here are some of my favorite parts. Blazor There are few things in software...
