10 Development Tips for Building a Solid Foundation
Being a developer these days is both easier and harder than it used to be. We have the benefit of “standing of the shoulders of giants” and leverage a lot of technology that wasn’t there before....
View ArticleDeveloper Tip: Keep Your Commits “Atomic”
Source control is a developer’s best friend. The ability to share code with multiple developers, track changes, and easily roll back when problems arise is indispensable in this distributed world. One...
View ArticlePlum Energy – branding and website
Background Plum Energy specializes in the small-scale LNG (liquid natural gas) value chain across the entire spectrum, helping customers to design, develop, build, install, commission, operate and...
View Article2 Alternate Configurations for Windows Azure Deployment
I’ve become a big fan of Windows Azure as a web application platform. One my favorite features is that you can use GitHub or BitBucket as a repository source, and Azure will download, recompile, and...
View ArticleBuilding a Data Import Tool with Azure WebJobs
Recently we built a new site for a client and hosted it on Microsoft Azure. I’ve been very happy with the ease of deployment and scalability that Azure provides. One critial piece to this new...
View ArticleAIGA Seattle HIVE Conference 2014
Well, Hive 2014 has come and gone, and Fresh was sure to be there. Our very own development ninja Elisha Terada gave a great talk on team workflow. An excerpt from his talk: Efficient Team Development...
View ArticlePicking a Stack for the .Net Framework
Sometimes when working with a new client at Fresh, they know they want to use the .Net Framework for their site or web application, but they are not sure exactly which configuration or “stack” would...
View Article5 Tips for Agile AngularJS Prototyping
Prototyping with AngularJS A typical AngularJS project starts with prototype development on the very same platform. The idea is to paint a vision for front-end user interaction with useful static...
View ArticleFresh AngularJS Hackathon
Last weekend, five of our Front-End Developers gathered together to build AngularJS applications. Each developer worked on prototyping their own application using one or more public API services. We...
View ArticleADD and You
API Driven Development (ADD) is quickly becoming a popular choice and we understand why. ADD is a great process for creating a single page web app where API is at the head of your application because...
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Microsoft Azure: More than a Web Hosting Platform
Recently we launched a new site for a department within a global organization. At first glance, the site appears to be pretty simple. There is an archive of weekly calls within the department that...
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How Computer Scheduling Saved Millions of Dollars
Six divisions. 14 sports. 250 schools. 5,400 teams. High Schools within a state-wide High School Sports Association play some 40,000 team sport games annually. But who should play who? And what is the...
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Angular Components: A Simpler Convention
There used to be no single standard for structuring Angular apps. Angular provided us with many different means of doing the same thing. This flexibility has given developers a lot of options and great...
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How Computer Scheduling Saved Millions of Dollars
Six divisions. 14 sports. 250 schools. 5,400 teams. High Schools within a state-wide High School Sports Association play some 40,000 team sport games annually. But who should play who? And what is the...
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How to Get Started with the Internet of Things (IoT)
We live in a time when most of the hardware we use is connected to the internet. “Smart devices” started with phones and TVs, but there are now many other internet-connected devices like cars,...
View ArticleHow to Create a Fuzzy Search-as-You-Type Feature with Elasticsearch and Django
Tutorial: How to Create a Fuzzy Search-as-you-type Feature with Elasticsearch and Django Recently, I had to figure out how to implement a fuzzy search-as-you-type feature for one of our Django web...
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Creating High-End Applications by Blending Functionality and Emotion
Application design should focus on creating an experience that users remember. The key question to ask is why they will remember it. Is it emotion that invests your users? Or does functionality play a...
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