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08/11/2016

Great article highlighting some of the (many) steps we go through when taking your app idea to fruition

An article by Michael Flarup explaining how the process of designing an app has stayed pretty much the same, and how we go through the many phases that constitute the creation of an app.

26/10/2016

Can Microsoft beat Slack at their own game?

Microsoft may be planning to unveil its new Slack competitor very soon, but instead of calling it Skype Teams, it appears the company may be planning to call it "Microsoft Teams" instead.

25/10/2016

Mixed reality, Virtual reality - which one are you betting on

He goes on to say that the company's goal is to "invent new computers and new computing."

10/10/2016

What is Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and What is a UWP App?

As part of Microsoft's push towards the Continuum effort, the company wants all of its apps to be compatible across multiple types of devices with different screen sizes, input types and so on. It actually...

07/10/2016

Early start!

06/10/2016

Don't mess with your App Store reviews, Dash app has found out the hard way

Popular API documentation browser Dash was yesterday pulled from the App Store after a routine migration request. Dash developer Bogdan Popescu was...

21/09/2016

Staff back at school this week learning how to deliver Business Intelligence solutions - everyone loves a pretty graph!

12/09/2016

Always nice to start the week offering someone a job 😐

23/08/2016

Powershell on your Mac?

Sysadmins, rejoice: PowerShell is coming to Linux. Microsoft announced Thursday that its automation and scripting system is breaking out of the confines of Windows and going open source.

17/08/2016

Today's mission, a little Perl, because sometimes going old school is the right tool for the job

Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. The languages in this family include Perl 5 and Perl 6.[6]

16/08/2016

Writing a new PHP MVC framework, we've 20 years of code snippets, time for an update!

08/08/2016

What resiliency do you have in place if your systems go down?

US airline Delta grounds departing flights worldwide after suffering a system outage, saying it is working to resolve the problem as soon as possible.