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5 Tips for Conducting User Interviews

As a new UX professional, performing a user interview can be a daunting task. Your...

.NET, Developer Tools, Software Development

How to Nail Your Next Tech Interview: Arrays vs. Lists

We interview a lot of people at Excella. Many people we interview for developer positions...

.NET, Developer Tools, Software Development

5 Myths About .Net

Microsoft released the first beta version of the .Net Framework to the public in late...

Developer Tools, JavaScript, Node.js

TypeScript vs ES6 vs ES2015

In this article, I’ll be giving you a bit of context on why ES6, ES2015,...

Django, Python, Software Development

Scaling Django Channels with Docker

Earlier this summer, I attended PyCon in Portland, Oregon. The talk that excited me the...

Developer Tools, Django, Python, Software Development

Creating a RESTful API: Django REST Framework vs. Flask

There are a multitude of frameworks for creating RESTful APIs in just about every popular...

Best Practices, Software Development, Technical Debt

The Technical Debt Management Plan

In the previous blog, we looked at how when we don’t actively manage our debt,...

Best Practices, Software Development, Technical Debt

The Vicious Cycle of Technical Debt

In my previous post, we looked at the difference between good technical debt and bad...

Best Practices, Software Development, Technical Debt

Good Technical Debt vs. Bad Technical Debt

In my previous post, we defined technical debt and saw that not all technical debt...

Best Practices, Software Development, Technical Debt

What is Technical Debt?

In my previous posts, we looked at symptoms of bad code and reasons we write...

Best Practices, Software Development, Technical Debt

Top 5 Reasons Writing Bad Code Happens

In my previous post, I discussed symptoms of bad code. Here I’m going to look...

Best Practices, Software Development, Technical Debt

Top 4 Symptoms of Bad Code

Bad code tends to creep up on us over and over again. We’ve all been...