Greetings again from the Sphere team! We were at the Tech in Motion meetup yesterday and had a great time of pizza, beer, networking and listening to Steve Znavor pitching his startup Soulseekr (new take on internet dating) to a 4 group panel. Mark Friedgan, Jonathan Ozeran, Chris McKeever, and Jason Shah did a great [...]
The Sphere Team attended the HealthUX Meetup yesterday: Walgreens 2.0 and their new “Well Experience”. It was great to hear how Walgreens combined with IDEO to transform the way Walgreens approaches the consumer now. With their set focus on the Pharmacy, Heather Kingsbury Hill, Director of Healthcare Consumer Insights at Walgreens and Mark Jones, Service [...]
“Introduction to SQL 2012″. The Sphere Team was at this meetup last night. It was from 5:45 – 8:00pm with Dan Vandercar, a Microsoft BI Technical Solution Professional with 15 years of BI experience. We covered three areas in SQL Server 2012. 1. Mission Critical – Always On, Speed, Security, 2. Insights – SSRS, Power [...]
Russ Unger – It’s A Good Time to Be You The Sphere Team was at Refresh Chicago’s meetup last night with Russ Unger as the speaker. It was very enlightening as to the thoughts of UX professional, newbies, and the “in-betweeners”. Russ talked about Unicorns and the impossible job description/expectations often placed on the UX [...]
The Sphere Team joined the .NET Ninjas Meetup on Wednesday night and enjoyed great discussions on “Structuring an Application”. Alfred, the speaker for the evening, presented how Legacy code can obviously be very difficult but that there are several ways to overcome it. He pointed out some of them by highlighting ways that can make [...]
Quite recently we were developing live auction web application prototype. For real life auction it was needed to implement real time bidding for Internet buyers. Each lot is limited by certain amount of time and it’s necessary to have really low latency between raising lot’s bid and broadcasting new price to every participant. Naturally, there [...]
Since countless legacy systems are part of everyday life in the enterprise world, integration solutions are gaining more significance. How can we integrate such systems? How can we handle all the duplicated data that can be gathered in one place when in reality…it is NOT all in one place? The answer is given in “Enterprise [...]
NoSQL became a widely discussed technology in 2010 (even though some people just call it hype). There are multiple arguments/discussions on this topic. People’s opinions range from total neglect of NoSQL to “let’s-rewrite-everything-done-so-far”attitude. At Sphere, we believe that every technology has its pros and cons. You need to know them in order to make the [...]
