Archive for April, 2009

Use the features of the .Net framework to implement good coding patterns
By Ramesh Soni (1) on April 29th, 2009

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 »

Getting the most out of custom applications during the downturn
By Vishal Gauri (15) on April 23rd, 2009

monitorsLast 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.

Application programming in the era of multicore processors
By Abhijat Vatsyayan (6) on April 15th, 2009

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 »

A readymade caching solution for scalable .Net applications
By Vikas Gandhi (3) on April 15th, 2009

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 »

Downturn Creates Opportunities for Innovation and Competition
By Vikas Sehgal (14) on April 7th, 2009

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 »