Technology training for your technical employees is an unavoidable cost for IT firms. It helps to ensure they can pick and use the right tools to solve problems. Technology moves fast nowadays and IT skills that were relevant five years ago are almost obsolete today. Therefore, organizations must make it a priority to instill a […]
Using off-the-shelf business can become ineffective as your business grows. No matter what a vendor promises, not all features of their software will fit exactly what your business needs. Some adjustments often must be made to off-the-shelf solutions to get maximum return on investment. Custom applications are thought of as expensive. However, when you consider […]
Having an IT system that matches your current organizational needs is extremely important for the efficiency and agility of your operations. Technology keeps on improving, which gives businesses the chance to minimize costs, increase security, among other major benefits. However, often businesses tend to hold on to legacy systems. There are reasons for this occurrence […]
The need to improve efficiency and cut costs has led businesses to continually invest in new technology. Software applications meant to improve productivity are being utilized in almost all business organizations today. From the scheduling of meetings to the assignment of tasks to workers, these productivity apps are the very core of business workflow today. […]
There are many approaches to being a software developer. I’ll start by saying that in my decades of experience there is not one approach that is better than another. To me, differences in approach typically are due to the trade-off between time and cost. These differences in approach are quite fine and I’d argue often […]
From the time I was born, I have been fascinated by the ideas of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I didn’t know it at the time, but the movie Star Wars (later titled A New Hope) was impacting me profoundly when it first introduced me to machines that can think. For my childhood mind, the […]
Cloud and DevOps are two of the top buzzwords in the modern technology lexicon. They are a big part of modern software development practices. At Transcendent Software, we group them into their own service offering. In our recent post, “A Case For Custom Software”, we analyzed when to build or buy custom software. After deciding […]
Having developed many custom software solutions, there have been countless times over the years in which a friend or family member has come to me and said, “I have this great idea for _____”. You can fill in the blank with “an app”, “a website”, or “a software program” and numerous other technology products. About […]
What is an interface? It’s a key feature in object-oriented programming and yet so mysterious to developers getting their start in the world of software development. Quite simply, an interface is a language specific representation of a contract used in computer programming languages. Interfaces cannot be instantiated, and they cannot define implementations. They are just […]
We’ve all been there. In a haste to write a quick SQL query that turns into a production query we take one value as a numerator and another as a denominator and put that division slash between them and move on. It works great, except only to find when we show the results off in […]
