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Practical writing on .NET, Umbraco, nopCommerce, AI-assisted development and how we ship software.
Practical writing on .NET, Umbraco, nopCommerce, AI-assisted development and how we ship software.
Application Lifecycle Management is not a tool you buy -- it is the discipline that connects planning, building and releasing. Here is how we think about it.
A practical guide to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Scrum for .NET development teams. Covers sprint planning, Azure DevOps integration, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, release management, and metrics that matter.
A comprehensive guide to nopCommerce plugin development for version 4.90 on .NET 9. Covers plugin structure, architecture patterns, payment plugins, shipping methods, widgets, testing, and deployment.
Small Umbraco tweaks that make content editors genuinely happy.
How our portable ASP.NET server runs MVC sites with no IIS at all.
The business case for giving tools away -- and what it does for our hiring.
Wiring Brazilian shipping rates and tracking into nopCommerce checkout.
A comprehensive comparison of .NET 9 vs .NET 8. Learn about new C# 13 features, performance improvements, AI building blocks, ASP.NET Core enhancements, and why upgrading to .NET 9 matters for your team.
Discover why leading agencies are adopting AI-enhanced .NET development to deliver projects faster, reduce costs, and improve code quality.
Discover how small law firms are using AI case management to save 10+ hours weekly on administrative tasks. Learn about CaseOrbit AI's proven results.
A detailed comparison of Umbraco, WordPress, and Drupal for enterprise CMS projects. Compare architecture, security, developer experience, total cost of ownership, and find the right CMS for your business.
GPU VRAM/HBM is the real bottleneck for AI. A verified investigation into whether silicon photonics can break the memory wall — the quantitative case, the leading approaches, and a staged architecture to resolve it.
A SplatDev investigation: we built a system of AI agent skills for front-end development, then blind-tested them against an unaided AI. The skilled agent won every task at high confidence. Here is exactly how.
We built eight AI agent skills for front-end work and measured them honestly against an unaided AI. Here is what actually moved the needle, what didn't, and the costs — gains and gaps, with the real numbers.
We re-ran our front-end agent skills on Haiku and Sonnet to test whether skills help weaker models more. The correctness lift tripled as the model got weaker — and the quality results revealed exactly where skills stop helping.
8 Essential Strategies for Thriving in IT and Computer Science Careers
In the ever-evolving landscape of project management methodologies, Scrum has emerged as a highly sought-after framework for agile development.
Hosting dotnet applications in Windows Servers is expensive. Follow this tutorial to install and configure aaPanel (hosting panel) and dotnet core in Ubuntu 20.
Business on a budget: Opt for low-cost ideas, consulting, maintain good credit, start small, use free resources, bootstrap, delegate, explore free trials.
A Brief Overview of Team Foundation Server
How to choose the right ALM tool?
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