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Real engagements and engineering investigations — AI-enhanced development, case management, and front-end quality — written up with the actual numbers.

AI Infrastructure
Resolving the Photonic VRAM Issue: Architecting Around the AI Memory Wall

GPU VRAM/HBM — not FLOPS — is the real AI bottleneck. A verified investigation into whether silicon photonics can break the memory wall: the quantitative case, the leading approaches, and a staged architecture to resolve it (with the vendor claims that didn't survive fact-checking).

Jul 3, 202612 min readRead
ALM
ALM with Scrum: A Practical Guide for .NET Teams

A practical guide to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Scrum for .NET development teams. Covers sprint planning, Azure DevOps integration, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, release management, and metrics that matter.

June 30, 20268 min readRead
AI Engineering
Do AI Agent Skills Help Weaker Models More? We Measured It

We re-ran the front-end skills on Haiku and Sonnet. The correctness lift tripled as the model got weaker — and the quality test revealed exactly where skills stop helping, plus the automated gate we added to fix it.

Jun 25, 20267 min readRead
AI Engineering
AI Agent Skills for Front-End: The Gains, the Gaps, and an Honest Comparison

The candid other half of the story: where our eight front-end AI skills beat an unaided AI, where they didn't, and what they cost — with the real numbers and the gaps most "AI made our code better" posts skip.

Jun 25, 20268 min readRead
AI Engineering
How AI Agent Skills Produce Measurably Better Front-End (Blind-Tested)

We built a system of AI agent skills for front-end work, then blind-tested them against an unaided AI. The skilled agent won every task at high confidence — here is exactly how, and why the first result was a tie.

Jun 25, 20269 min readRead
eCommerce
The Complete Guide to nopCommerce Plugin Development

A comprehensive guide to nopCommerce plugin development for version 4.90 on .NET 9. Covers plugin structure, architecture patterns, payment plugins, shipping methods, widgets, testing, and deployment.

June 23, 20268 min readRead
CMS
How to Choose the Right CMS: Umbraco vs WordPress vs Drupal

A detailed comparison of Umbraco, WordPress, and Drupal for enterprise CMS projects. Compare architecture, security, developer experience, total cost of ownership, and find the right CMS for your business.

June 16, 20268 min readRead
.NET
.NET 9 vs .NET 8: What Is New and Why Upgrade

A comprehensive comparison of .NET 9 vs .NET 8. Learn about new C# 13 features, performance improvements, AI building blocks, ASP.NET Core enhancements, and why upgrading to .NET 9 matters for your team.

June 9, 20268 min readRead
Development
Why Agencies Are Switching to AI-Enhanced .NET Development

Leading agencies are adopting AI-enhanced .NET development to deliver faster, cut costs, and improve code quality. The data from 30+ agencies: 35% faster delivery, 57% fewer bugs.

Jun 5, 202610 min readRead
Legal Technology
How AI Case Management Saves Small Law Firms 10+ Hours Weekly

Small law firms lose ~12 hours a week to admin. See how CaseOrbit AI gives 10+ of them back — document handling, deadline tracking, and client communication, with a real firm's before/after.

Jun 3, 20268 min readRead
ALM
What Is ALM and Why Your Team Probably Needs It

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the backbone of modern software delivery. It connects the dots between planning, development, testing, and operations. Teams that embrace…

Jun 20268 min readRead
Umbraco
Building Editor-Friendly Back-Offices

Content editors spend hours in the Umbraco backoffice. Simple customizations like filtered content trees, dashboard widgets, and input validation can transform their experience.

May 20265 min readRead
Performance
A 500 KB Web Server Yes Really

We built a self-contained ASP.NET web server that fits in 500 KB. It runs full MVC applications without IIS, making deployment trivial for edge scenarios and demo environments.

Apr 20267 min readRead
Open Source
Why We Open-Source Our Plugins

Open-sourcing our plugins has been one of our best business decisions. It builds trust, attracts top talent, and creates a community of contributors who improve our products.

Apr 20264 min readRead
eCommerce
Correios API Shipping Done Right

Integrating Brazilian Correios shipping into nopCommerce checkout required careful API design. We share our approach to rate calculation, tracking integration, and error handling.

Mar 20268 min readRead
Career
Essential Tips for a Successful Career in IT and Computer Science

8 Essential Strategies for Thriving in IT and Computer Science Careers

15 October 2024 12:453 min readRead
Agile
Exploring the Advantages of Scrum Certification

In the ever-evolving landscape of project management methodologies, Scrum has emerged as a highly sought-after framework for agile development.

04 April 2024 21:043 min readRead
Business
Maximizing Your Business Launch: Expert Tips for Starting on a Tight Budget

Business on a budget: Opt for low-cost ideas, consulting, maintain good credit, start small, use free resources, bootstrap, delegate, explore free trials.

31 March 2024 00:022 min readRead
.NET
How to run dotnet in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Hosting dotnet applications in Windows Servers is expensive. Follow this tutorial to install and configure aaPanel (hosting panel) and dotnet core in Ubuntu 20.

02 January 2024 20:332 min readRead
ALM
What is TFS?

A Brief Overview of Team Foundation Server

24 February 2023 08:462 min readRead
Career
Where to Start

How to choose the right ALM tool?

22 February 2023 09:082 min readRead