Magenic Company Blog

Now that some of the dust has settled on Microsoft's vision for the direction of the company and their role to enterprise, it's time to have a serious discussion about positioning your company to be ready for the future. This isn’t a blog on 'future-proofing' your infrastructure, but instead a 'peppers' guide to surviving the web's transition to the cloud.

If you're like me, challenges are what make being a developer fun. Sometimes, however, these challenges can be daunting. With piecemeal information at one's fingertips, it can be aggravating to say the least to try to solve a vexing problem.

Quick attacks are test techniques in which the tester doesn't have to spend a lot of time preparing for, planning, or executing the test. Instead, the tester can sit down with an application (even one they’ve never seen before!) and very quickly start finding important bugs. Many of these tests draw on patterns of data input to the system like February 29th in leap years (or in non- leap years to test for error handling) or special characters in strings, for example.

Last month, a group of Magenicons, including myself, descended upon Microsoft’s annual SharePoint Conference, this year in Las Vegas. Front and center was SharePoint 2013, a brave new release that literally changes the game in so many ways, it’s hard to list them in a single blog post.

In the second of two videos, Prasanna Ramkumar, Associate Principal Consultant at Magenic, highlights the features that make life easier for developers. From the status board, feedback, code review and testing features, Prasanna demonstrates the power of TFS

When it comes to wrangling the development of an application, keeping an eye on deliverables is an ongoing battle. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) offers many tools to tame the development beast. In the first of two videos, Prasanna Ramkumar walks us through the features of Team Foundation Server and those features that appeal to the Project Manager.

For the second year in a row, Magenic sent multiple SQL Server professionals to the PASS Summit. Seven consultants from Magenic regional offices around the country were in attendance at the conference this year. Check out what we learned.

Magenic is on tour with .NET Rocks! This cross-country campaign features Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell who host a weekly .NET-based internet talk show. Members of the Magenic team have been and will be featured in seven major US cities.

Don’t you love it when problems that seemed insurmountable in the past turn out to be fairly trivial to implement because of new techniques/libraries? I just had one of those moments and thought it would be instructive to share.

Of course Magenic provides many services and products for many different businesses. As an example, Steve Hughes, Business Intelligence Project Lead for Magenic, took some time to share some elements of a recent project.