AWS Step Functions is a web-based orchestration service that enables you to coordinate the components of an application into logical steps using individual components that each perform a discrete function or task. This allows for easier scalability of processes and decreases the amount of time needed to change applications. Some of the benefits of step functions are: Manages the operationsRead more
I recently was asked to develop a dashboard application for tracking the data flow metrics for a large financial firm. Having had no experience developing a ‘dashboard’ application, I began to do some research into how I could do this efficiently and with a minimum amount of effort designing the user interface. Like most applicationRead more
I recently worked on a project that used web services to feed information to the SSRS reports that were created for the various business segments at this particular organization. Stemming from that project, this blog post will present how to create a simple web service that returns a serialized dataset and a simple SSRS reportRead more
Initially used as an analogy to hardwiring electronic circuits, “hard coding” was meant to convey the inflexibility which results from its usage within software design and implementation. Hard coding, as we know it today, requires a program’s source code to be changed when an external data source has changed. In most cases, it may beRead more
By John Floyd I recently took a Microsoft C# MCSD exam and while studying for this test I ran across this question: Frankly, I had no idea what a ‘Cryptographic Hashing Algorithm’ was and I was not able to answer the question correctly. This, I felt, required some research. I found a couple of excellentRead more
John D. Floyd – Application Development Consultant Have you ever finished a job interview with that intangible feeling that this is the company you are supposed to work for? Luckily I have, and it happened one day last October when I came into the Superior Consulting Services (SCS) office and sat down with Andy Mauch,Read more
