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April 16, 2025

Introducing EasyLeave – Taking a day off just got way easier

Adam Cogan General, SSW TimePro EasyLeave, TimePro, timesheets 0 Comments

I’m thrilled to share that we’ve just launched EasyLeave — a brand new feature in SSW TimePro that makes managing leave a breeze. People don’t want many steps to take their leave. In a perfect world, with a few clicks it’s done and in the right people’s calendars and their timesheets are also done. With […]

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April 14, 2025

From Google to AI: Your strategy with SEO has shifted

Adam Cogan AI, ChatGPT, General AI, AI Tools, ChatGPT, GPT, LLMs, llms.txt, robots.txt, SEO 0 Comments

Over the last 2 decades, SEO has revolved around one question: “How do I rank higher on Google?” Before Google was popular, I was briefly the No. #1 search for Google ranking because I’d written a page “Rules to Better Google Ranking”. After years of Google dominating information search, new AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, […]

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March 17, 2025

Why Rules are Cool – The Secret to Smarter Teams

Adam Cogan General, SSW Projects, SSW Rules 0 Comments

It’s no secret within SSW that I’m proud of my biggest open-source project, the “SSW Rules.” I think there’s several pillars that have allowed SSW to build enterprise solutions for 25+ years, including luck, and one of those pillars is the SSW Rules. 🗝️ Back in the early days of SSW, I needed a way […]

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February 10, 2025

Cursor: Have I Found My New Coding Wingman?

Adam Cogan General AI, AI copilot, Code copilot, Coding, Cursor 0 Comments

The dev world is changing rapidly, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) adding a lot of pressure to adapt. We’re moving beyond the days of manually typing every line of code. In my December blog, I spoke about devs adopting tools like GitHub Copilot. I chatted with the SSW developers and saw the other AI tools they […]

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January 14, 2025

Adam’s 2024 Year in Review

Adam Cogan Family, General, SSW Projects, Tina CMS 2024 Retrospective, AI, Speaking, SSW TV, TinaCMS, year in review 0 Comments

It’s time to discuss 2024’s highs and lows. Definitely, the high was the successful acquisition of TinaCMS – it is a product we’ve used and loved for a while and it was great fun to work with their team and get to travel to plenty of conferences to promote it. I have mixed feelings about […]

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December 12, 2024

Adoption % – Have Developers Embraced GitHub Copilot?

Adam Cogan .NET, AI, General AI, AI copilot, Coding support, Copilot, Dev Surveys, GitHub Copilot 0 Comments

It’s been almost 2 years since I first blogged about GitHub Copilot and how I wondered how much it would change the enterprise development space. Given the huge adoption and advancement of other AI tools in the workforce, I thought it would be interesting to review my initial thoughts on the tool and re-test the […]

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November 19, 2024

Spooked by the WordPress drama? What Recent Changes Mean for Your Website👻

Adam Cogan General, GitHub, Tina CMS Automattic, CMS, TinaCMS, website, WordPress, WP Engine 0 Comments

Read what happened with WordPress and why you should consider moving to a headless CMS where your data is stored in GitHub and remains yours!

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October 9, 2024

From Chaos to Clarity: The Essential Role of Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)

Adam Cogan .NET, Documentation, General ADRs, Architectural Decision Records, documentation, Smart software decisions, software documentation 0 Comments

Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) are crucial for documenting key decisions in software projects, preventing miscommunication, and ensuring transparency. By using ADRs, teams can avoid repeating mistakes, foster collaboration, and provide valuable historical context for future developers.

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August 27, 2024

7 Important Updates to 🦙TinaCMS 2.0

Adam Cogan General, Tina CMS Content Management, Media Manager, Package Manager, pnpm, React Integration, TinaCMS, TinaUpdates 0 Comments

See the latest updates from TinaCMS 2.0, including some great new features like more flexibility on your choice of package manager, new integrations and more

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August 13, 2024

How to Modernize an Enterprise Application to .NET 8 and Lose 75% of the Code 👑

Adam Cogan .NET, .NET8 Migration, General, SSW Projects .NET 8, .NET 8 Migration, Large Migrations, Migration, Migration Stories 0 Comments

The current software development challenge for Microsoft developers, is getting large .NET projects into .NET 8 (soon to be .NET 9).

Modernizing the codebase is crucial as developers need efficient code, maintainable code and a scalable app. At SSW we have been on this migration journey for a bunch of large enterprise applications for clients.

This blog post dives into our internal journey of TimePro’s migration to .NET 8, highlighting the metrics, and what the more organized codebase ended up looking like.

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  • Introducing EasyLeave – Taking a day off just got way easier
  • From Google to AI: Your strategy with SEO has shifted
  • Why Rules are Cool – The Secret to Smarter Teams
  • Cursor: Have I Found My New Coding Wingman?
  • Adam’s 2024 Year in Review
  • Adoption % – Have Developers Embraced GitHub Copilot?
  • Spooked by the WordPress drama? What Recent Changes Mean for Your Website👻
  • From Chaos to Clarity: The Essential Role of Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
  • 7 Important Updates to 🦙TinaCMS 2.0
  • How to Modernize an Enterprise Application to .NET 8 and Lose 75% of the Code 👑
  • Showcasing TinaCMS 🦙 at Europe’s #1 Developer Conference
  • Up and running with 🦙TinaCMS in 15 minutes – No prob-llamas!
  • SSW purchases TinaCMS – the #1 CMS on GitHub – we love Markdown ❤️
  • Announcing the SSW Clean Architecture Template!
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