SSW Data Onion – Helping you Simplify your Data Layer

At SSW we build software for a large range of clients, from start ups to massive enterprises and even our own internal projects. We care that the software we build is secure, maintainable and testable. Successful devs use great tools, great frameworks, and follow best practices. Choosing great tools like ReSharper and Octopus Deploy is…

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What’s new in Visual Studio 2015 and ALM 2015

I’m off to Europe for the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo and the Xamarin Hack Day in Slovenia. Of course I’ll be talking about Visual Studio 2015 and all things mobile. At SSW we’ve been using Visual Studio 2015 on a few projects and it’s a bigger change than I expected. Thanks to a new/refreshing/cool/awesome…

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The Agile Olympics – it’ll be Scrumtacular

It’s no secret that I love Scrum. I’m a Scrum.org certified trainer and delight in teaching courses across the country. We follow Scrum at SSW – not just the developers, but the graphic design, marketing, and multi-media teams as well. I even use it at home with my family and for my kids’ soccer team.…

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Getting 96% Code Reuse with Xamarin Forms

UPDATE: See my interview with Miguel de Icaza on SSW TV We’re putting more and more business logic in our pockets these days and with our latest project we’ve crammed in an entire nursing home! To keep our mobile application lightning fast and make the most from a phone’s tiny resources we’ve decided to go…

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