by Chad Michel | Mar 17, 2020 | Our Engineering, Tools
Creating a good local development experience allows for developers to run independently, with no shared resources and few online connections. This way, developers can code while having a minimal impact on other developers. Now sometimes, you can’t get away...
by Chad Michel | Nov 12, 2019 | Our Engineering, Tools
How do you effectively evaluate a software solution? This is a question commonly heard in software development. It reminds me of a question posed in Caddyshack, “How do you compare yourself to other golfers?”, to which Chevy Chase responds with, “By...
by Chad Michel | Sep 24, 2019 | Tools
Microsoft has built a lot of products that many of us use every day: Windows, Office, Visual Studio, Azure, and Xbox. They’ve all been hits, but there’s one product that is quickly building steam and I expect will become their next big success story: Microsoft Teams....
by Chad Michel | Jun 19, 2019 | Our Engineering, Tools
Google has released a fun and engaging game building environment. Simply called “Game Builder”, this engine is unlikely to produce the next Halo or Call of Duty, but it’s a quick and easy way to create a video game…and that’s pretty awesome for anyone who’s wanted to...
by Chad Michel | Jun 11, 2019 | Our Engineering, Tools
The interwebs are all ablaze with Apple’s announcement of SwiftUI. I’ve seen multiple articles about what was covered at the WWDC keynote, but the one topic that stood out to me was SwiftUI. With SwiftUI, did Apple just rewrite software development? What is SwiftUI?...
by Chad Michel | Dec 11, 2018 | Our Engineering, Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
When all of us think of .NET development, we think Visual Studio. I’ve been a user of Visual Studio (VS) for years, and it is probably my favorite Microsoft product. If you compare VS to almost any other IDE, you will likely be left wanting. I have tried other...
