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Update, Purchase or Integrate Your Business Software: What Management Needs to Consider

Software developers are often tasked with adding to or upgrading an existing application. Sometimes it is easy to add or upgrade because the application was written recently enough to be in a modern language or framework, but when it is not, then software integration can be the best solution. Software system integration means combining individually tested software components into an integrated whole.  Integration often requires ...

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Building for both iOS & Android

You've come up with a great app idea and you want to share it with the world. You can reach roughly 95% of smartphone consumers by releasing your app to both platforms. Ignoring one platform can inadvertently hurt your app’s acceptance and usage in the marketplace. Unfortunately, however, designing and coding for one does not automatically mean copying the code over for the other.  ...

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Big Data Overview Part Two: A more in-depth look

As we discussed last week, Big Data is powerful and making huge waves across all industries. This week, we’ll take a more in-depth look at Big Data and how it works on a more technical level. Statistics or case studies presented in this blog posting are attained from a 2013 research white paper entitled ‘Big Data in Big Companies’ made available by the International ...

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It’s More Than Just Programming, It’s About Business Too

As programmers, our core focus is essentially strictly logic. We know how to create code that ties multiples individual pieces of a puzzle together to form a single cohesive application. But what about all of those pieces we tie together? It is good practice to be able to work with the other pieces of the application including the front-end and database development. These skills ...

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Big Data Overview Part One: What it is and why it matters

At first, I thought that ‘Big Data’ was just a buzz word. I never really looked into it and just dismissed it as another way to describe data collection. In a small way that is correct, but the reality is that Big Data is so much more than that. Big Data is leveraged in every industry from the public sector to private science firms ...

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Technology Workers Drive World-Wide Industry Growth

These days, it would be safe to say that we are beginning to experience the type of future we envisioned back in the 60’s. A lot of major advancements, including self-driving cars that don’t require fossil fuels, virtual reality, and even robots, have seemingly happened in a very short time. With the power and capability of modern computers, the possibilities for advancement are growing ...

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So you’re the new guy eh?

The tech field is a great place to work. Whether you are working helpdesk, IT, software development or anything in between, you will be exposed to some of the latest gadgets and tech trends. For the most part, as long as you know what you’re supposed to be doing, it’s fairly smooth sailing. But what about when you enter a new company and have ...

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Social Engineering: The Risks C-Level Executives Need to Understand

When  IT executives think of their organizations' IT security, they may think of the type of encryption software they’re running, the type of firewall, or the particular anti-virus they have installed. C-level executives rarely think about IT security, especially around the human element of organizations.  Social engineering is, essentially, the field of “hacking” humans, and it includes a broad spectrum of malicious activity both ...

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Monetizing your Mobile App

Everyone has heard the stories about how a single app has generated millions of dollars over a short period of time. These stories tend to awaken the dormant entrepreneur in many of us. Apps like Angry Birds & Flappy Bird were able to amass a cult following in a short period of time and generate a large amount of money. But how does an ...

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The POWER of APIs within a Business Application

What’s an API? API stands for “Application Programmer Interface” and it is used to communicate with external software and data. This allows the host software to provide information to external requests from another program, without granting that external software direct access to the data. In other words, it allows a company to share data. We use many API’s in the course of our software ...

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