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Habits of Highly Effective Developer Part 2: Begin with the End in Mind

1 June 2018 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com 0 Comments

By: Jonathan Donkin This is the 2nd part of a 7-part series. The first part can be found here https://stgconsulting.com/habits-of-highly-effective-software-developers/. As always, I look forward to your thoughts. Begin with the End in Mind In the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey makes the point that this habit is about leadership and your circle of influence. […]

Habits of Highly Effective Software Developers

29 May 2018 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com 0 Comments

By: Jonathan Donkin Recently as I was reading Seven Habits for Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, it dawned on me that those same habits that Covey says he put together into Seven Habits actually applies to Software Development as well. So as an attempt to gather together my thoughts both from my own experience […]

Basic Multithreading in .NET

29 November 2017 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com 0 Comments

By: Jeremy Holley Multithreading is one of the more advanced ways of speeding up your applications. Most every developer will have to write a concurrent application sooner or later. In this part I will cover the basic techniques for multithreading in .net such as signaling and accessing shared resources. Basic Locking Threading poses us with unique […]

2017 Hackathon

27 November 2017 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com 0 Comments

By: Matt Chiang As many of you know, automation is a great skill/asset to have. However, building automation is only part of the solution to checking code for problems. There are many other supporting technologies that goes into putting a usable solution together so that the automation doesn’t have to run your local machine and consume […]

It Was You All Along: 3 Principles for Recognizing UX Talent

30 August 2017 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com 0 Comments

By: Neal Jenks – Design Consultant and IxD Practice Manager at Software Technology Group You know the story: Boy meets Girl (or Girl meets Boy, Boy meets Boy, Girl meets Girl…), Girl falls for Boy, but Boy doesn’t fall for her because, in short, he’s an idiot. Maybe he’s blind, distracted, or both. He pursues someone […]

Running Automated Selenium Tests from Jenkins on Linux

19 June 2017 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com 0 Comments

By: Bill Witt Introduction As a Quality Assurance Engineer or Software Development Engineer in Test, there is high demand for those who are not only able to create automated tests using Selenium WebDriver, but there is also a demand for engineers who can integrate selenium testing into a continuous integration server like Jenkins. Using tools […]

How we are all doing SCRUM wrong, why it matters, and how to fix it.

15 May 2017 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com 0 Comments

Anyone who has spent any length of time in the Software industry has heard of the “Daily Standup” and anyone who has participated in a standup is likely familiar the “3 Questions”. Repeat them with me now: What did you do yesterday? What are you doing today? Do you have any roadblocks? Over the course […]

The Future of CSS – CSS GRID and Custom CSS Properties

1 May 2017 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com 0 Comments

By Josh Porter Custom CSS Properties are now supported in all major browsers except IE 11. Custom CSS Properties used be called Native Browser Variables. They have since changed the name to distances the Custom Properties from SCSS variables. Lets dive in and see them in action. SCSS vs. Custom Properties You can see the […]

Telecommuting Joys and Concerns

24 April 2017 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com 0 Comments

by Quinn Heiner Ask most software engineers whether they would prefer an option to work from home, most would say in a heartbeat, yes! Ask most employers whether they would prefer their engineers to work from home, most would say no. Below is a breakdown of some of the main pros and cons from both […]

So you want to be a consultant?

17 April 2017 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com 0 Comments

by Quinn Heiner Being a software consultant involves a diverse skillset beyond that of a typical programmer. I recently had a discussion with one of the top technical managers at our company and in that discussion came up with four points to consider when it comes to setting yourself apart as an exceptional consultant. You […]

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