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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.

March 19, 2024

.NET 8 Migrations Made Easy

Adam Cogan .NET, .NET Core, SSW Projects .NET, .NET 8, Migration, Migrations 0 Comments

Over the last 12 months, I’ve been involved in several large .NET 8 Migrations. Diving into .NET 8 has been quite the journey and an amazing experience. Migrating to .NET 8 brings better cross-platform compatibility (welcome Macbooks for development and Linux for deployment) and improved performance. There are 2 main ways to do the migrations:- […]

January 4, 2024

Adam’s 2023 Year in Review

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As 2023 comes to a close, Adam Cogan looks back on the year that was and goes through his highlights

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August 14, 2023

Solving Business Puzzles with Tech: A Look at SSW Melbourne’s Brainstorming Day & Retreat

Adam Cogan AI, Azure, ChatGPT, General, GitHub, SSW Projects AI, Azure, Azure DevOps, Brainstorming, Collaboration, Copilots, Dynamics 365, Outlook, Retreat, Semantic Kernel, teamwork 0 Comments

Find out how to utilize the smart people in your company to reduce their pain and create new ideas

March 28, 2022

Tech Debt – Do you know the best way to handle it?

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I did a video for SSW TV with Solution Architect, Matt Goldman, to demonstrate the best practices for handling tech debt. Watch it below for some cool tips! For more, check out the rules here: https://rules.ssw.com.au/technical-debt https://www.ssw.com.au/rules/refactor-your-code-and-keep-methods-short

February 15, 2021

Technical Debt – Can you pay it back?

Adam Cogan General, Non-SSW projects, SSW Projects Project Management, Tech Debt, Technical Debt 0 Comments

In a perfect world, development projects would be: Deployed often Developed using Agile practices, for example following Scrum Using mainstream technologies and libraries Managed & developed using best practices – the reason I started rules.ssw.com.au Run at a sustainable cadence with a team of at least 2 developers Code written in buddy fashion – 2 […]

January 19, 2021

Reflecting on 2020 – Embracing Change

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With so much of our time already dominated by Coronavirus, I didn’t want my 2020 year in review to be just about the changes it has wrought on the world. I know in Australia we have all experienced the upheaval at work, the pain of the severe lockdowns, social isolation, and more importantly, the fear […]

October 7, 2020

8 Tips to Better Architecture Diagrams

Adam Cogan Architecture, Non-SSW projects, SSW Projects Architecture Diagrams, Projects 5 Comments

A good architecture diagram (aka a cloud architecture diagram or system architecture diagram) gives a great overview of your project. It lets you see at a glance what the overall structure of the solution is. This is useful for gaining an understanding of how the system fits together, how it flows, and what it does. It also helps […]

February 10, 2020

Introducing SSW People!

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About a year ago, during SSW’s annual retreat in Brisbane, we started to imagine what the world would look like if the SSW Rules site was easier to use. Therefore, we had to find an alternative to SharePoint’s content management features. The first tech we evaluated was an Angular application. Even though we love building […]

July 29, 2019

BREAST – Improving Radiologists’ Ability to Detect Breast Cancer

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Cancer is very prevalent in my family. My mum has had breast cancer; she has 5 siblings – 4 out of the 5 got cancer too. It really runs down one side of my family. So, this topic is pretty important to me, especially having two beautiful girls myself. We do a lot of software projects at […]

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