How To|Oct 20, 2017

Modernizing Legacy Apps with Containers Webinar

Rewriting applications is a costly endeavor. Sometimes the benefits do not outweigh the costs. A rewrite though isn’t the only way to modernize apps – one approach can be to use containers. Containers offer pathways to enable legacy apps to take advantage of cloud technologies and CI/CD tools. In this webinar, we’ll look at how…
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How To|Oct 18, 2017

Understanding Microsoft Cognitive Services – Whitepaper

Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of cloud-based intelligence APIs for building richer, smarter, and more sophisticated applications. In this whitepaper you will learn how to use Microsoft Cognitive Services to build smart apps that see, hear, speak, and understand – in any language and on any platform. Download Whitepaper
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How To|Oct 18, 2017

Intro to Angular 5 Webinar

This webinar will explore Angular 5 essentials of building components, templates, data binding, and handling events. If you are looking to jump start your Angular 5 development this webinar is for you. In this recorded Wintellect webinar you will learn: Brief overview of Angular 5 How to code an angular 5 application Angular CLI Modules…
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How To|Oct 13, 2017

Concurrent Programming in .NET Webinar

The .NET platform has always provided a way to use multiple threads within an application. However, with the proliferation of multi-CPU architectures and highly scalable cloud computing resources, the ability to write high quality concurrent code is becoming a required skill. During this webinar, we will focus on the use of Tasks in conjunction with…
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Blogs|Oct 13, 2017

Top Free Data Science Books

There are probably thousands upon thousands of tutorials, articles, videos, and blog posts on all things data science on the internet now. Yet I’m still a big fan of books. Throughout history books have given wisdom, advice, and knowledge to everyone who wants to read them. Seneca, a Stoic philosopher, mentioned something similar: Men who…
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How To|Oct 11, 2017

Learn Python Using 5 of the Best Features Webinar

Learn Python Using the 5 Best Language Features In this Wintellect webinar presented by Michael kennedy, host of the TalkPython and PythonBytes podcasts, you will learn Python using 5 of the best features. Michael provided a live coding session showing Python examples for: Python lightning refresher Tuple assignment and unpacking Dictionaries for performance Generators Leverage inline methods…
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Whitepapers|Oct 10, 2017

Silverlight Migration Strategies

Browser plugin based application architectures, such as Silverlight, are rapidly losing market and mind share to open source and modern proprietary technology options. The shortcomings of plugin based architecture, in terms of security, performance, stability, and other considerations are driving current development to open standards supported by a wider variety of browsers and platforms. In…
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How To|Oct 10, 2017

Silverlight Migration Strategy – Whitepaper

Browser plugin based application architectures, such as Silverlight, are rapidly losing market and mind share to open source and modern proprietary technology options. The shortcomings of plugin based architecture, in terms of security, performance, stability, and other considerations are driving current development to open standards supported by a wider variety of browsers and platforms. In…
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DevOps|Oct 10, 2017

Creating First-Run ARM Templates

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are a great solution for creating a repeatable environment. Using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) makes  it easy to manage configurations, avoid dependency issues, and prevent server drift. Using IaC also means that you can recreate the environment as often as necessary to ensure it remains consistent. This gets complicated when…
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DevOps|Oct 5, 2017

Choosing Between Containers and Virtual Machines

Containers are simple, but harder to explain. Fundamentally, containers are a virtualization technology and they share a lot of common ground with virtual machines, however the biggest difference between the two is where the abstraction occurs. A VM hypervisor exposes a set of virtualized hardware components like a virtual network card, a virtual hard disk,…
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Blogs|Oct 4, 2017

Give your Business a Competitive Advantage with DevOps

How DevOps gives your business an advantage Competition is moving fast, so you need to move faster. You need the ability to build, test, automate, and deploy your applications more efficiently, and at a quicker pace. Take your DevOps to the cloud with Visual Studio Team System and Azure, and automate your software life-cycle to…
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wintellect-blogs|Oct 2, 2017

Installing VSTS Build Agents on macOS

If you’re doing Xamarin, macOS (OS X), or iOS development work you’ve likely discovered that you need a way to automate the build of your code from Visual Studio Team Services. If you’re not familiar with setting up a private build agent macOS, the installation instructions provided by Microsoft can be a bit confusing. This…
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