I started my journey here at Mercury as an intern, fulfilling a credit requirement towards my computer science degree. The stress and uncertainty associated with an internship is hardly an uncommon sentiment among students and those just starting out in the tech world or any profession for that matter. I would like to offer those that are in the humble beginnings of their computer science careers my positive account of growing from an intern to an application developer. The impact a technologically diverse, tenacious and structured company like Mercury can have on one’s progress is invaluable.

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Having well written user stories, with acceptance criteria, is directly correlated to a project running smoothly. Learn our best practices for writing good user stories in this post!

Big Data is an inescapable buzzword for anyone even remotely entrenched in the world of business or technology in 2016. Big Data as it exists today is a growing and emergent field. Technology is constantly being introduced to the world that either creates new data streams or a new way to make sense of the current data being produced. What, exactly, should we do with all this information? That is the central problem and proposed solution of Big Data; to capture, analyze, and make sense of the wealth of data at our disposal.

Thinking of refreshing your website in 2016? Here are the latest trends and cutting edge web tech you need to be aware of.

This blog post is going to help you clean up your URLs when you’re developing a SPA (Single Page App). In addition, I’m going to show you how to enable a browser refresh when you do. And finally, I’m going to show you how to enable ASP.NET MVC’s ReturnUrl functionality when the target page is an Angular route. If any of these things interest you, then keep reading.

Thinking of refreshing your website in 2016? Here are the latest trends and cutting edge web tech you need to be aware of.

General use JavaScript libraries and frameworks have been revolutionizing web development for a decade now. Since the release of jQuery in 2006, JavaScript libraries have been quickly replacing traditional use of JavaScript. Today, more than 65% highest traffic sites on the web use jQuery. Since then, a number of other frameworks and libraries have been introduced. In this post I am going to concentrate on two such libraries, AngularJS and KnockoutJS, and provide some general comparisons from the perspective of a .NET developer who is fairly new to each.

Web accessibility is an important criteria for any website or web app, and is one that should be considered by all people involved: designs, developers, site owners, site contributors, site testers, and end users. The United Nations estimates that one in ten of the world’s people lives with a disability, and that number is expected to grow as the world’s population continues to grow older and live longer.

Recently, at Mercury New Media we had a client request that we upload IIS log files to their server on a nightly basis. The request was to rename IIS logs to follow the requested naming convention and to upload the log files in a zip folder each night. We tossed a few ideas around like console apps, custom services and ultimately settled on a PowerShell script executed by our VM’s task scheduler to fulfill our client’s need. A simple yet effective solution that would be portable and flexible.