Most software developers who have coded systems that require inter-process communication (whether for asynchronous message-driven systems or for synchronous request/reply services) use the beloved JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as the message payload format of...
Producing reusable components has always been one of the pillars of professional software engineering. For the web this has been especially hard — changing paradigms, frameworks, and libraries have made the situation more complicated than necessary. One of the...
“It looks great, but could you just add Excel import?” If you’ve developed software for a long time, you’ve probably heard that question from a manager more than once. To a non-technical crowd, asking for Excel import/export doesn’t sound like a big deal....
Building desktop applications with C# and WPF is still a rich and active area of development, but if you’re looking to the future of either a current project or a new endeavor, you need to evaluate what web development tools, languages, and frameworks are the...
