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Using Configuration Files When Developing Projects with Xcode
For most products, having separate environments for testing and production is common. If you’re building an iPhone application (which utilizes a backend API service) you’ll likely have a variable containing the environment endpoint value. For simple applications, configuration changes could be managed using a debug conditional…
Incorporating Microsoft Tools to Create a Better Employee Experience
Enhancing internal communication is important for both the growth of an organization and ensuring employees are satisfied with their organizational culture. Providing employees with the proper tools to better communicate with one another has several benefits. It leads to lower employee stress levels, increased productivity,…
Defending the Digital Realm: AI’s Influence on Security
The Changing Face of Cyber Threats through AI & AI’s Influence on Security Business professionals today use the term AI to describe a variety of advanced systems. The most common areas include image processing, natural language processing, recommender systems, or popular chat bots such as ChatGPT.…
Customized Modern Search Experiences with PnP Search Web Parts
Today, PnP Search is often used in SharePoint to create customized search pages and result displays. This results in a fully custom modern search experience. It is equipped with features such as Refiners, Pagination, Sorting, and Highlighting, which make it easier to refine and present…
The Imaginet Difference: An Exclusive Look at Imaginet’s Onboarding Process
Most new developers are familiar with the dread of “onboarding.” Onboarding refers to the first few weeks or months of work, where new employees are expected to set up their workstations, learn about the company and its expectations, and graduate from being brand new to…
Application Modernization: A Roadmap to Success
Do you know how many organizations have their own custom line of business applications? Do you know how many of those applications were built by someone innovative and savvy enough to produce a tool that made certain tasks easier, to then share that tool company-wide,…
Co-Develop in Power BI Desktop: Creating an NHL Draft
In May 2023 Microsoft announced Fabric, an end-to-end, human-centered analytics product that brings together all an organization’s data and analytics in one place. Accompanying the announcement of Fabric are features that improve Power BI’s relationship with Developers. One such feature is the improved co-development experience. …
Extending SharePoint Using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and Custom Development
While SharePoint’s modern experience provides impressive functionality updates and improvements, there are still several reasons why clients may want to further extend those features or add new features that will better facilitate their organizational needs. This can be as simple as adding a new web…
Converting Angular to Blazor: What is Blazor, and Should You Make the Switch?
Blazor is a somewhat new web framework used to create interactive web applications with ASP.NET and build web UIs using C# as the primary technology. The option to use JavaScript remains, but the primary language is C#. It’s recently had a bit of buzz in…
PMO Practices and Microsoft 365
What is a PMO (Project Management Office) The Project Management Office (PMO) sets the standards for work and processes among project managers. They establish documentation, best practices, and training for internal project managers. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is an AI assistant that works alongside you…
What’s the Delta with Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse?
What is Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse? That is a great question that can only be answered if we get some definitions straight: Delta Lake – a low-cost data storage framework that stores data in open-source, generic file formats such as Parquet and their metadata, typically in…
Avoiding the Cliff of Success: When to Back Out of Software Projects
Imagine you’re in a car on a road trip. Everything starts off smoothly and you make good progress. But as you are driving, the four-lane highway becomes a two-lane, then a dusty gravel road, and finally little more than a dirt track that winds up…
Creating and Configuring Power Platform Pipelines: An Overview
Pipelines in Power Platform aim to automate and democratize the execution of the Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) process to allow for the deployment of solutions by citizen and professional developers alike. It simplifies the ALM process by reducing the domain knowledge and effort required…
Creating Visualizations Using D3
Creating visualizations for applications can be overwhelming and difficult without using the correct tools. Recently, I faced a challenge where I needed to modernize a visualization from a legacy application that used a recursive function to display data dynamically. Creating visualizations for D3 allowed me…
Idle Session Timeout: What it is and How it Affects Security & Productivity
In today’s digital age, many organizations are now using cloud-based productivity suites such as Microsoft 365 to streamline their operations and enhance collaboration. While Microsoft 365 offers a wide range of tools and features, it also emphasizes security to protect sensitive data and ensure a…
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