In December of 2014 Microsoft officially discontinued their popular mapping and routing software Microsoft MapPoint. With a number of internally developed products that make use of MapPoint it quickly became obvious that the time had come to modernize these applications to make use of more modern cloud-based technologies. After assessing the different options available to us …
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Monthly Archives: August 2016
Here at Profit Point, we typically put in a fair amount of effort up front to scope out a project together with our client. This typically helps us and our client to set appropriate expectations and develop mutually agreeable deliverables. These are key to project success. But another key element to project success is …
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Idempotency – a key to better code Recently I found a term that intrigued me. Idempotency. From the web I saw this definition that I liked: In computing, an idempotent operation is one that has no additional effect if it is called more than once with the same input parameters. Much of my computing experience …
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