As I stated, for this project I decided it was time to look at Webpack. More and more of the web community is switching to Webpack. It is bundled in Angular-CLI for Angular 2/4. And though we don’t use Angular 2+ yet (Angular Material 2 is not ready for prime time and we use Angular … More Step 2 – Learn Webpack
When starting any project, the first step is always to setup your environment (or at least verify it). My environment is Visual Studio 2015. Yes, I know Visual Studio 2017 is out and I would love to use it. There are so many great innovations, tooling and language wise, but there are some key development … More STEP 1 – Set up my environment
At work this week I started a new project creating a search and assignment tool for a sales based call centre. They have an existing database and ASP. Net Web forms web site system and a very complex login mechanism (which they hand rolled, completely bypassing ASP. Net Membership and Roles). I decided to take … More Angular 1, OAuth, and OData, and Custom Identity Provider
Why, it’s been way too long since I wrote a blog post (~12 months)… But I digress. Today I want to talk about one of the biggest problems that face us as developers: failed projects, either in reality or in the customer’s eyes. The #1 cause of this? Failure to communicate effectively what is desired … More Testable Customer Communication
Within Cognitive X Solutions we have started a discussion about what is the base set of knowledge that a programmer should have to achieve senior status. As part of that discussion we have actually gone all the way back to the beginning and are outlining what every programmer who wants to work for Cognitive X will … More What Every Programmer Should Know Series
One of the main tenants that we hold to here at Cognitive X Solutions is that all of the software we create should follow the SOLID principles. Note: You can click the section headings for a more detailed / technical description of each area (thanks, Wikipedia). Single Responsibility There are actually 2 parts to this principle: … More Making Sure Your Programming is SOLID
Asynchronous programming can be a nightmare. Thanks to Microsoft’s async/await keywords added in C# 5, it has become a lot easier, but it is still not without its pitfalls and gotchas. Here is a great article on MSDN that helps you avoid some of the pitfalls. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj991977.aspx
Today one of our developers was faced with the problem of creating a dynamic mapping that would take a list of fields loaded from a CSV file and map it onto the properties of a given object. Because this mapping is not static (the end user of the application can choose to map things however … More Tricks with Anonymous Functions
Adventures in Software Dev with Adam 