In our haste to finish the coding of a given application, we often overlook great little techniques which can be deployed to ensure best practices in code. And since one of the best ways to learn is by example, we will walk through a very common block of code that is found in almost all Windows based applications – the block which shows and hides a wait cursor when a time consuming task is being executed by the application. Continued »
Archive for April, 2009
Last week Manufacturing Business Technology published Nagarro’s top “Dos and Don’ts” for custom application development. Our customers in manufacturing as well as other markets continue to prove that downturn is a perfect opportunity to revamp IT strategy for competitive advantage. As companies look to evolve to a ‘smarter’ IT strategy, smaller, inexpensive, made-to-fit custom applications offer a great way to build lasting competitive advantage.
Computer chip manufacturers cannot keep on increasing the clock speed indefinitely to make their processors faster. They seem to have already reached the limit (on clock speed) and have started putting multiple Continued »
One of the challenges of scaling out applications through server farms is the need to share memory artifacts (session and cache). There are of course many techniques which can be employed. As always, looking around the Internet Continued »
As we all know, the economy has been in a tailspin for several months. When the economic crisis first began to rumble, many of our customers and prospects slammed the brakes on technology spending. But then before too long, we started noticing a change: smart companies began to realize that this was actually the perfect time to step on the gas and leave their competitors in the dust. The opportunity for competitive advantage is far greater when potential rivals are frozen at a standstill. Continued »
