We’re receiving excellent feedback on our end-of-the-year SharePoint install at FIMC. Everyone seems to be commenting on improved communication and easier project collaboration. It was a smart move by John and Dustin and is really propelling FIMC forward in terms of connectivity and efficiency. As John and Dustin update their technology and iron out operationalRead more
With the rapid evolution of user needs, technologies and processes, applications can quickly become antiquated. While developers work hard to maintain their relevancy, there are ultimately a plethora of arguments for rewriting applications. In this post, we will explore many of these arguments in order to help you determine whether this is the best courseRead more
In data warehouses across many industries, it is common to have multiple foreign keys on a fact table that relate back to a single dimension, such as Date, State or Person. Let’s use Date as an example and look at the Order fact for a company. It is realistic to have multiple dimension keys inRead more
The following is a summary of a virtual discussion that took place between members of the application development team at Superior Consulting Services. It highlights a number of the current trends, techniques and technologies in the application development space. Moderator: What technologies or methodologies surrounding Application Development have you used recently that really excite you?Read more
When it comes to data access, I like to keep it simple. I prefer the database be exclusively responsible for database actions using stored procedures to execute queries and updates. I also like to avoid mapping lots of parameters in stored procedures. At other times, there’s a need for a way to send a listRead more
Power BI Query Editor Value and Table Columns Data stored as part of a transactional data processing system, for example a database to information on package deliveries, is often difficult to work with when it comes time to explore that data or create reports. This is because of a process called normalization. Data Normalization WhenRead more
This blog features a walk-through of an app that was developed in Visual Studio 2015 using Xamarin and deployed to an Android mobile device. I will be getting and displaying stock information by calling a public web service and passing in a Stock Ticker. The web service is one of the first ones that cameRead more
AngularJS, a JavaScript framework, tends to be a popular tech topic lately. In this blog we will continue the Angular JS discussion by building up an AngularJS filter and directive to assist in the formatting of numeric HTML elements. Let’s keep the example simple so that it can be run directly in a browser. TheRead 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
Introduction Currently there are four (4) native numeric data types in C#, including Integer, Float, Double and Decimal. This blog will discuss why using the Double data type over the Decimal datatype to significantly improve performance with almost no loss in computational accuracy. Integer (Integral) Data Type An integral data type [1] is used toRead more
