Author: Adrian Balint
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Microsoft HoloLens Review
Tecknoworks Blog The HoloLens Augmented Reality headset was first announced by Microsoft at the 2015 developer conference in May, and the company made sure to amaze everybody with a new futuristic concept meant to make interactive holograms a reality. Well, they managed to do that. I am sure that each individual watching the demo was…
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5 Tips for Getting Started with Business Intelligence
Tecknoworks Blog One of the more common buzzwords in today’s digital world is Business Intelligence (BI). Well, what does it really mean? And what is the best way of getting started with business intelligence? Gartner, one of the world’s leading companies in research and advisory, offers a comprehensive definition of BI: “A broad category of applications…
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Refactoring Code to Keep it Evergreen
Tecknoworks Blog Throughout the development phase of a software product, there comes a time when the source code needs maintaining. Think of it like a nice living fence that needs trimming every other week, to make sure it has just the right shape and aesthetics. That’s right—code can, and should be aesthetic, easy to read…
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7 Golden Tips to Organize Your Software Tests, Right from the Beginning
Tecknoworks Blog With the rapid advances in technology, programming languages, and user research, software projects today are more complex than even before. And so are the options to organize your software tests. To deliver competitive software products on the market, a culture of quality is essential at every level of the organization. With all this…
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Eliminating Code Smells Through the Use of Simple Refactoring, Part 1
Tecknoworks Blog I’m going to start off by explaining the concept of refactoring, why it’s useful in eliminating code smells, and when it should be applied. Then I’m going to dive into the three big types of refactoring that I’ve come across in my experience: the simple changes, the execution path changes and the design…
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Eliminating Code Smells Through the Use of Simple Refactoring, Part 2
Tecknoworks Blog The article is a continuation of Part 1 on simple refactoring, where we wrote about refactoring through simple changes. You can access that article here. In this part, we give a few tips and examples on refactoring through execution path changes. Execution path changes These are more complex refactorings that usually change the execution…
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Eliminating Code Smells Through the Use of Simple Refactoring, Part 3
Tecknoworks Blog This article is the third part of our series on eliminating code smells through the use of simple refactoring. In the first two parts, we wrote about code smells and refactoring through simple changes and execution path changes. In this final article in the series, we give a few tips and examples on refactoring through design changes.…
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Are Remote Teams Effective?
Tecknoworks Blog Thanks to COVID-19, almost all teams today are distributed. While remote collaboration unites talented people from around the globe, it also comes with its challenges. When considering a major project such as the development of customized software, companies want to know, Are remote teams effective? The short answer is absolutely — if you have the…
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Big Data Applications and Examples
Tecknoworks Blog Though it’s regarded as a new idea, the phrase “big data” actually became popular in the 1990s. At that time, the term was mainly used to designate datasets that were so large and complex that the databases and analysis tools of the time could not handle them properly. Today, when we say “big data”…
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Machine Learning Models and Big Data
Tecknoworks Blog In our previous blog, we explored the concept of Big Data, briefly discussed the phases in a Big Data solution, and explained how you can advise your customer with the association algorithm about the next product he or she might want to purchase. In this blog post I will briefly discuss different types…