Dev Technology is hosting a Hack-a-Thon on Friday February 23 in our Reston office. Three teams of five will compete to develop the most user stories while their code is automatically compiled, tested,
The audience can be sparse in the last session of the last day of a three-day conference, but we were glad we stayed until the bitter end of AFCEA’s Homeland Security and Federal
My first introduction to talking machines was through the movie “Wargames” in 1983, in which NORAD’s War Operation Plan Response (WOPR) mainframe first talked to David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) and Jennifer Mack (Ally
Wednesday was the end of a pretty hectic sprint for a project we are developing, so instead of the usual code reviews that typically occur, we opted to take a couple of hours out
What are Microservices and how is it different than Software Oriented Architecture (SOA)? Microservice architecture dictates that software should be composed of multiple, individually deployable services each running in their own process space
What is responsive UI and why do we need it? Because the websites and web applications we develop these days are available from a range of devices with different screen sizes and on
A software development project split across separate tracks that multiple teams support is a great way to increase speed for delivering new features. Countless times in the past, however, I’ve seen release dates
Dev Technology’s Research & Development team recently kicked off an internal development project to modernize our company’s sign-in book for guests. As a secure facility, it is important to track who comes and
So often when talking about agile development, especially in the Federal space, metrics such as velocity are considered important to determine how well a team is doing. However, I think the most important
By Day 5, we were getting close to wrapping up development and were focusing on improving the look and feel. Michelle and a few other interested parties who got involved had some excellent