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A Campaign for Rational Business: applying evidence-based decision-making to your value chain so you can stop relying on gut instinct, and make defensible calls.

Splatting is one of the most powerful, yet underused features of PowerShell. In this post we cover a walk-through of how to use this feature.

What separates a real proof of concept from a quick hack, demo, or spike, and how to scope a charting and data visualisation PoC across the Microsoft technology stack.

In the final part of this series, we cover how to use TeamCity's feature branch abilities to support the GitFlow process.

A new version of Templify has been released, which includes a huge performance improvement contributed by the Open Source community.

See how to create a responsive website layout using Bootstrap.

We ran a retrospective of our first few Bootstrap-based HTML5/Javascript projects a few weeks back, and distilled some of the output into these top tips

A guide to choosing your first programming language as a complete beginner, comparing JavaScript, Python, C# and others on usefulness, learnability, and job demand.

If you were learning to programme today, which language should you choose, and why?

Laying the foundations to build a brand doesn't happen overnight. At endjin it taken many years to develop our brand look and tone of voice. In this post we talk about developing our visual language so that we can maintain a consistent look and feel across all our collateral.

Having a strategy is one thing, being able to measure your progress towards implementing is, and its impact is another.

GitFlow adds init, feature, release, hotfix, and support sub-commands that automate branching conventions: each one is a facade over standard git commands, explained here with their native equivalents.

Thinking strategically is incredibly difficult, especially if all your cognitive bandwidth is absorbed by business as ususal operational activities.

GitFlow gives you a branching model designed around release cycles, with dedicated branches for features, releases, and hotfixes. Here's the mental model.

7 years ago, feels like a lifetime - for you eldest it is - but this was when endjin took the first steps in refreshing our website promoting our cloud expertise and mobile first responsive design. In this post we talk about our strategic, creative, prototyping and production processes to deliver our website and enforce our brand.

Thinking strategically is difficult, especially if all your bandwidth is consumed by operational needs. Here are our top 5 tips for thinking strategically.

Adopting Git means creating an entirely new mental model about how to version control your source code. Once you make the jump, there's no going back.

We take a look at the state of HTML and JavaScript in 2013; the good, the bad and the ugly.

Some thoughts on RavenDB after using it to build a content-managed website.

A step-by-step guide to building an inbound Twilio voice app with ASP.NET Web API — covering TwiML verbs, controllers, and local debugging via port forwarding.

In-memory integration testing for ASP.NET Web API using HttpClient against an in-process HttpServer. No IIS, no port binding, just fast end-to-end test runs.

Endjin are proudly sponsoring the Agile Milton Keynes user group.

Sql Server Spatial Types Assembly is a hidden gem. In this post we show how to use SqlGeography.STGeomFromText and STDistance distance (in meters) between the two points.

Reviewing the Developer Developer Developer conference held at Microsoft HQ in Reading

Wiring up the endjin composition framework as the dependency injection container in an ASP.NET MVC app, with controller resolution, installers, and common gotchas.