Intro to Card Sorting

Have you ever used a product and the experience was horrible? I have, and it drove me to use a different product altogether. In an app for creating GIFs, the navigation items were placed improperly, and icons represented the wrong action items. The overall experience drove me to use a different product and avoid returning even after the company had fixed the issue. To maintain a strong customer base, it is important to focus on a good navigation system based on customer input.  

by Christos Konstantakis Apr 26, 2022

How to Secure a Synapse Workspace with Active Directory groups 

Azure Synapse is an enterprise analytics service that accelerates time to insight across data warehouses and big data systems. Azure Synapse brings together the best of SQL technologies used in enterprise data warehousing, Spark technologies used for big data, Pipelines for data integration and ETL/ELT, and deep integration with other Azure services such as Power BI, Cosmos DB, and Azure ML.  

In this blog we will show how we can use Active Directory Groups to secure Synapse

by Jeff Lipkowitz May 27, 2021

Design patterns are a lifesaver for Extensible Applications.

All of the major programming languages have evolved tremendously over the past decade especially to make the developers job easy. C# by Microsoft has been at the top of the game of adding plethora of easy to use and extremely powerful constructs ranging from async programming to functional programming. The well-developed programming languages have made it extremely easy for beginners to pick up coding and start developing applications quickly.

However, when developing extensible applications for the future, just using the language to write down logic for applications does not do the job well. We have to think about the overall design of the application for it to be able to scale and extend well. This means utilizing appropriate design patterns wherever applicable.

by Siddharth Bhola Jul 11, 2019

Two big changes coming to SharePoint in 2018

2017 has come to an end and just like a season finale to a good TV series on Netflix, Microsoft has left us ready for more. There was a whirlwind of changes and enhancements to SharePoint, OneDrive, and the overall collaboration space in Office 365 in the past 12 months. The amount of new things in 2017 was staggering but Microsoft left off with some exciting things coming early in 2018. In this post, I picked 3 of the biggest changes coming to SharePoint Online in Q1/Q2 of 2018.

by Drew Madelung Jan 7, 2018