Monthly Archives: October 2018

Azure Devops offers a great pipeline feature for automating the build and release process. After we realized Microsoft’s hosted agents took more time than we wanted to gather all the required assets for our build, we decided to investigate building our own agents to run the process (Microsoft offers the ability to host your own agents). Since we use .NET Core for most of our projects, we can’t use Azure

This past weekend was a great reminder for me about why the Birmingham business community is so special. Kurt Cherry, an 18-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, may have been the biggest Alabama football fan who had never attended a game at Bryant-Denny Stadium. That all changed on homecoming weekend when UA partnered with Dream On 3 to give Kurt the trip of a lifetime. Kurt’s energy and enthusiasm are infectious,

Understanding your customers’ needs is critical for success, but getting there can be complex and time consuming. We’ve gotten to know McLeod Software, one of the largest software development companies in Birmingham, AL, as a coaching client. McLeod is a leading creator of transportation and trucking management software for carriers, brokers, 3PL providers, and shippers. Much of McLeod’s success comes from listening to their customers and providing software solutions for their problems.

The Problem When building large-scale Angular applications, most people eventually need to provide their application with environment-specific variables, which doesn’t seem like a very big deal on the surface.  After all, Angular provides us with the “environment.ts” file, right? It should be as easy as filling in your environment settings and then using the environment variable throughout the site, but this method introduces a level of uncertainty into the build

I’m excited to share that a project we worked on, the TexasYouth2Adult Transition Tool, with BridgingApps is nearing launch. Texas Youth2Adult is a resource for young adults with special health care needs (and their families) as they transition from youth to adulthood. This is an important program that will help a number of families in Texas, and BridgingApps hopes it will eventually expand to other states. If you’re interested (or

We’re getting started on a new project using a graph DB on Microsoft’s Cosmos DB, so we want to set up a process for Cosmos DB deployment automation. We use Azure Resource Manager Templates for automating our Azure resource deployment. This post assumes you have previous experience with ARM templates, Gremlin, and Cosmos DB in general, so we’ll jump straight into some of the quirks that popped up in our