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Career Growth in a software consultancy – Our journey so far… Originally posted one Medium.com. I’d like to share the challenges and goals for maintaining a skilled software development consultancy through the lens of career development. Now I know what you’re thinking, what could be sexier than a deep dive

Well written software that is a joy to read and takes a complex problem and presenting it in a well thought out simple structure is rare. I want to draw your attention, not to the great design buzz words but to arguably the lowest part of your system. If you

A study on the leaders at Haefele Software and what has brought them success. What is this article about? This article came about from pure selfish reasons to be honest. I am a bright eyed, bushy tailed intermediate developer who’s looking to grow as fast and effectively as possible. I

Blazor is a .NET based web application technology that allows you to build interactive applications leveraging C#, Razor, and HTML. The web app builder, Blazor, compiles to WebAssembly known as Wasm for short. This enables the new emerging technology to run in any modern web browser with great performance. .NET

What Is Design Thinking and why I should care? Have you ever come across a scene which looks something like the image below? We can assume that a lot of time, effort and money was put into creating a path which stretches from “Point A” to “Point B”, but we

Haefele PLAY. Create. Explore. Tinker. Albert Einstein said “Play is the highest form of research” – this quote became real for us near the end of 2018 with the stark realisation that, as a business, we were not “playing” nearly enough and we needed to do something about that. At

How to use integrated authentication between Web Apps and SQL Server in Azure using .NET Core and Entity Framework Introduction Using a connection string that contains a password has worked for a very long time. However, there is a much better way to do it, namely, integrated authentication. There are

Docker Docker is a platform that gives users the ability to package an application and its associated dependencies into a container. This is done through a process called containerization, ensuring that the application works seamlessly in any environment, from development all the way to production.  These containers pull all the

Define the “WHAT” before the “HOW”  The cost of unreadable code The way in which code is written can either make it easy or difficult to understand. When looking at code I often wonder, how many hours in total have been spent by developers trying to understand this? what would

This post, the second in a series, was originally posted on kudocode.me and written by Marius Pruis, Senior Developer at Haefele Software. UNIT TESTING – API ARCHITECTURE FOR GENERAL PURPOSE In the first post, we discussed the API architecture from a developers perspective and what is required for a developer to utilize the architecture. We looked at

Haefele RISE. Train. Mentor. Coach At the end of 2018, it became clear to me that we are built for more than just developing software for our clients. Looking beyond the obvious growth over the past 3 years, something special stood out. Not just that we had pulled together a

This post, the second in a series, was originally posted on kudocode.me and written by Marius Pruis, Senior Developer at Haefele Software. In the previous post, Marius discussed the API architecture from a developers perspective and what is required for a developer to utilize the architecture. If you haven’t read the previous post you can

This post, was originally posted on kudocode.me and written by Marius Pruis, Senior Developer at Haefele Software. The purpose of the architecture is to modularise, isolate and control the flow of general components like authentication, authorization, validation, execution, error handling, basic auditing and responses using SOLID principles and clean code techniques. The architecture provides

Taking the decision to put in motion an API strategy in your organisation is not trivial and many considerations and decisions need to be methodically unpacked, thoroughly understood and well supported from within the enterprise if there is any hope that the strategy will succeed. API strategy is not just

During 2018, numerous reputable sources reported that software development was the most in-demand job in South Africa and in various countries across the globe. Not much has changed in 2019. According to jobs portal CareerJunction, software development remains the most sought-after skill set in the South African job market this

Our founder and managing director Alan Haefele shares his insights into what Haefele Software stands for. So who are we and why do we exist? When talking to business and product owners, there are too many stories of poor delivery and failed execution, along with burnt fingers. When talking to