A tutorial is a method of transferring knowledge and may be used as a part of a learning process. More interactive and specific than a book or a lecture; a tutorial seeks to teach by example and supply the information to complete a certain task.
What is static program analysis? Static analysis provides testing against code bases and binaries without the execution of any code. IDEs do this too by highlighting areas of code they do not like. Ensuring code quality and identifying issues without running the code can save a huge amount of time for your team; we recommend…
This month our posts are focusing on code quality and we have already covered how you can use IDEs to improve your code to higher standard. Building on that this post will be about how you can maintain your current code quality level, and the easiest way to do that is to properly test it…
Coming up with a name for a new product can be surprisingly difficult. It is also very important. If you get it right, a good name can become your brand. One of the hardest things is that lots of good names sound silly when you first say them. A classic example is Smart Bear. When…
What is a Cipher stream? Cipher streams act as streams except that they use a Cipher to process the data before it is passed to the underlying stream. This allows you to encrypt and decrypt data as you process it. One use of this is that you can encrypt data being saved to disc as…
Creating a chatbot is a fun way to integrate external tool functionality within Basecamp. I recently created one to call the Bitbucket API, allowing us to configure branch permissions on repositories from within Basecamp. I won’t go into detail about the Bitbucket side of things (it’s a bit of a niche use case!), but I…
