In the past, the art has been in grasping evolving trends - discarding the fads and committing to truly useful technology. Now, Artificial Intelligence, No-Code and Virtual/Augmented Reality find me reimagining the entire future of my industry every few months. It is the most exciting time in Blackball’s history and after carefully observing for the last year or so, it’s starting to feel more revolution than evolution.
Has your Resharper shortcut been replaced by a Screenshot tool??!! Read on…
The team at Blackball have been busy this year working on both some really exciting client projects as well as a little project of our own - SyncHub, a cloud based platform that helps businesses connect all their data to the reporting tool of their choice.
Attention developers - use this handy utility when working with the Xero API from .Net
There are generally two types of founders, those who have the technical skills to deliver a minimum viable product and those who don’t. We loosely refer to this second group as non-technical founders, and unfortunately they are often placed at a disadvantage because without the personal expertise to build their product, they need to buy it.
We share how Blackball has created an object-oriented framework for writing CSS. By using C# to describe our CSS, we open up the full power of interfaces, abstraction and inheritance, as well as a few extra bonus features.
Deploying software to the cloud has offered amazing benefits in regards to scalability, uptime and infrastructure management however it is easy to miscalculate the true costs of services which can snowball over time if not properly managed.
One of our clients asked if we could review their Azure subscription and infrastructure requirements as their subscription costs had been creeping up and were a now a sizable outgoing for their business. Here’s what we found…
Live reloading has been around for a decade or more and has made the lives of developers much easier and much more efficient.
However, while CSS updates are seamlessly refreshed into your page, I am yet to find a plug-in-play equivalent for javascript modules. So we made one ourselves.
