Recently I was engaged in an AngularJS project that spent a little time switching between views. Okay, well the term “a little” is pretty subjective. As we all know, the more thumb-twiddling a user does while waiting for a response from a server, the less likely they are to use your app, or at the … Continued
We often describe Axian’s culture as a “connected community.” For example, a group of Axian employees and some of their families gathered to volunteer for the Oregon Food Bank. Together with other volunteers we bagged and boxed over five thousand pounds of food, enough for over four thousand meals. Tyler Holmes, Axian’s Software Practice Leader, … Continued
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our October Tech lunch! We enjoyed delicious Middle Eastern food, and listened to outstanding presentations from our fellow team members. First, Shawn Duffy gave a Consultant’s Corner presentation on “Building Equity with Our Clients” to help us build better relationships and communication skills when interfacing with our clients. … Continued
On Saturday July 25, Frank Helle (Axian CEO), in his role as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Technology Association of Oregon, welcomed 415 technology leaders, their guests, and elected officials to the 12th Annual “Party in the Pinot” at Oswego Hills Winery. This ritual of summer for our tech industry is an … Continued
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our July Tech lunch! We enjoyed delicious pizza, and listened to outstanding presentations from our fellow team members. First, Shawn Duffy gave a Consultant’s Corner presentation on “Crafting an Elevator Pitch” to help us better communicate what we do here at Axian, both as a company and in … Continued
My last post took you though setting up boot2docker on your system and provided a quick cheat sheet on how to configure and interact with it. In this post I will be laying out a running list of the commands I use with docker to get the most out of my containers. What is Docker? (From docker.com) Docker allows … Continued
Recently, Axian hosted a group of high school students from the School of Science and Technology, a local Beaverton School District Options School. For an internship project, they had developed proposals and wireframes with concepts to evolve a collaborative portal for all of the Teachers in the Beaverton School District. The students were divided into … Continued
What is Hadoop really? Hadoop is an open source development project managed by Apache. It is based on some technology originally written by Google. There are multiple modules (code bases) available and all perform different tasks, but all focused on the primary directive of Hadoop, processing large volumes of data in a highly available environment. … Continued
Here’s an Entity Framework scenario for you: You’re using Entity Framework 6. Check. You’re using a custom database initializer to init your DEV and TEST databases. Specifically the DropCreateDatabaseAlways initializer. Yup, that’s me. Your project contains 1 or more Unit Test projects that utilize the above. Do you have a unit test project? Say yes. … Continued
What IaaS Means To You These days Infrastructure-as-a-Service has almost become as common-place as the ubiquitous Software-as-a-Service. Particularly in the last decade as the concept of Cloud Computing has evolved to become a more mainstream, affordable and sensible option. Small organizations looking to leverage economies of scale are no longer faced with stacking costly servers … Continued
