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November 5, 2021

Avoiding Storms with BDD & Automated Testing

Adam Cogan Automated Testing, General, SSW Rules Automated Testing, Automated UI Testing, BDD, GtiHub Actions, UI, UX 0 Comments

With BDD (Behavioural-Driven Development) and Gherkin syntax you can write unit test scenarios in plain text using a few key words (Given, When, Then). Plain text makes the test scenarios easy to understand, even for non-techies.

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October 14, 2021

Avoiding a Jurassic problem – 7 tips for handling errors, before they bite

Adam Cogan .NET Core, Customer Experience, General, SSW Rules Application insights, Error handling, healthy code, report bugs 0 Comments

Error handling doesn’t need to be a nightmare. Follow these 7 tips to manage your errors, identify bugs & keep your projects healthy.

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September 10, 2021

Going handsfree in Office 365 – You should be using Dictate

Adam Cogan Accessibility, General, Office 365 Accessibility, Dictate, Office 365, voice-to-text 2 Comments

Microsoft has its own Siri in Office 365 More and more of us are using Siri and Google Assistant, but a very small percentage are taking advantage of the office feature that allows you to draft an email by talking. First some background Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to be in meetings with […]

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August 12, 2021

The Power of Multi-select – Multiple Options on Data Entry Forms

Adam Cogan Architecture, CRM, General Dynamics 365, Dynamics CRM, Multiselect, Reporting 0 Comments

Ever used a form you wish had multiselect? It’s frustrating when you have to choose, knowing there was a better option in combination. Find out how using Multiselect in Dynamics 365 will produce better data

July 13, 2021

Video killed the Bibliophile – Video vs Books

Adam Cogan General 2 Comments

Book lovers, aka bibliophiles, are 6 feet under…. If you want to learn something new, most people just Google it, others watch a video. I have a fond history with books, and they helped me build SSW. The beginning of SSW Rules When I first started SSW I read a business book that helped me […]

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June 9, 2021

Keeping Secrets – How to make your code more secure

Adam Cogan Azure, General Azure Key Vault, Connection Strings, Managed Identities, Secrets, Secure Code 0 Comments

Security vulnerabilities involving connection strings can arise based on the type of authentication used, how connection strings are persisted in memory, and the techniques used to construct them at run time. Find out how to minimise the risk of exposing your secrets via code.

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May 18, 2021

8 Important Changes to The Scrum Guide for 2021

Adam Cogan General, Scrum Scrum, Scrum Guide 2020, Scrum Guide Update 1 Comment

There has been a lot of important changes to the Scrum Guide. Find out what they are from Australia’s first Scrum Master.

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April 19, 2021

Powering a business with low-code

Adam Cogan General, Power Apps Low-code, Microsoft Power Suite, Power Apps, PowerApps 2 Comments

Adam Cogan walks you through his experience with Power Apps. He’ll cover the increase in demand, the usefulness, when to use a Power App and real-world applications.

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March 18, 2021

SSW Newcastle now open! We are coding by the Sea

Adam Cogan General, SSW Party 2 Comments

This is a short summary of our opening event for SSW Newcastle

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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 […]

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