Category: Development

Kicking the can down the road

Being a developer is an interesting profession. On one hand there are an engineering feel to it but on the other hand it’s far more like art. For me calling myself a “Software Engineer” is more for marketing then anything else. But lets face it, little of what developers/programmers do is actual engineering. Engineers are
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SignalR, Azure and Scaleout

Recently Resgrid started utilizing SignalR to allow real-time updates to clients. If your unfamiliar with SignalR is a server/client Web Socket framework giving an easy API for Microsoft backend server solutions (like MVC, ASP.Net, etc) to utilize Web Sockets. Resgrid has a fairly simple infrastructure: Dual Azure Web App instances for web and api, backend
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You will never be bug free

Recently I was on a call with a miffed client dealing with issues in a software product. Understandably they were upset that what they were paying for had an issue that impacted them. All of that is pretty SOP but then an IT guy pipes up: “Do you guys have any testing? How did this
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