Software Development

A Product Manager’s Dilemma As many product managers and start-ups have come to realize, when you decide to build a mobile app, you are immediately faced with a tough decision.  Each mobile app platform […]

As a client ambassador at SOLTECH, one of the first things I like to do to get to know our clients is to read their website. This helps me better understand their market expertise, […]

Returning Entity Types from a Stored Procedure In the course of developing transactional applications, we often hear developers grumble about the limitations of Entity Framework, or the difficulty in using LINQ to create complex […]

This past weekend as our clocks “sprung-forward”, 34 budding software developers lept into serious, around the clock action.  The students from@TheIronYard were competing in a software engineering contest to create the coolest web and mobile applications based […]

As a Project Manager (or PM), organization is key to running a successful web or mobile application project. With multiple projects on your plate, it is ideal to have a receptionist, an assistant and […]

Every day we come across companies where a relationship with a previous technology vendor has gone sour and a new vendor must pick up where the old one left off. At SOLTECH, we understand […]

Knowing what your customer wants and being critical of your product idea is the first step in becoming a successful product owner. According to The $100 Startup, by Chris Guillebeau, to have a successful product you […]

“Unit tests”. Even the sheer mention of the words can send shivers down the most veteran developers’ spines and recall memories of unrelenting QA engineers. Okay, enough with the drama! Just tell your developers […]

Are you buying into the open source and/or anti-relational database movement? Recently, the interest in the database technology “Cassandra” has produced a metaphorical wind for the NoSQL movement sailboat. Apache’s product Cassandra DB is […]

It is very prevalent throughout the web development environment to follow the conventional HTTP paradigm of a synchronous request and response.  Whether in the standard context of HTTP/HTML or performing web service calls, frameworks […]