Let’s be honest, what does your application’s current search functionality really do? Is it just a “.contains”? Maybe some paging? To me, this seems like the search for the year 2000. Is this really good enough for the year 2021? …

On December 15th 2020, Microsoft announced new changes to the process of renewing certifications and the length of time they are valid for. These changes apply to any role-based or speciality certification in Azure, Dynamics 365, or Power Platform. Microsoft is introducing a process of free renewals for any role-based…

Microsoft Build 2020 conference just finished (19 to 21 May) and a lot of .NET features and highlights were shown which continue to confirm that the .NET platform has a very strong and stable future ahead. This article is going to briefly detail some of the best bits to come…

Introduction With Microsoft Build 2020 conference just finished (19 to 21 May), a lot of interesting tools have been featured which would benefit any type of software developer. This article is going to briefly detail some of the best development tools to come from Build 2020 from the point of view…

With the release of .NET Core 3.0 coinciding with the .NET Conf this year, a lot of great and useful sessions came out of the conference which I have thoroughly enjoyed. This led me to catch up on a number of sessions over the last week or so, on-demand. I…

Recently I met a group of wonderful and up and coming budding junior developers ready to be thrust into the software development industry. These were students of Code Your Future which is an organisation which supports refugees and disadvantaged individuals with the dream of becoming software developers. Code Your Future…

Introduction Between the 6th and the 8th of May, was the biggest Microsoft event of the year, Build 2019. The key announcements can be viewed in the Vision Keynote with Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella as well as the two technical keynotes for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 platform. In this blog…

Introduction Between the 6th and the 8th of May was the biggest Microsoft event of the year, Build 2019 and lots of exciting announcements and existing technology solutions were discussed. …

Visual Studio 2019 launch event last Tuesday marked the date that Visual Studio 2019 released its first stable version. They showed a lot of great new features and improvements to existing ones. You can now download it right now even with Visual Studio 2017 installed on your computer. According to…