Audacia Insights
Insights on the latest technologies, trends processes and advancements within technology, as well as Audacia news and updates.

For the past two years, the majority of Audacia's new web development projects have been built on a stack of:
- ASP.NET Core RESTful API
- An Angular UI running within an ASP.NET Core project.
The ASP.NET Core UI running Angular was based on Microsoft's initial Angular 2 template. As a result of this, we had to configure the Angular build steps of the application within webpack…

TypeScript is a language written by Microsoft. The latest version of TypeScript (2.3) was released on 27/04/2017.
TypeScript is to JavaScript what which SASS and LESS are to CSS - a super-set of the language with additional functionality to improve the coding experience.
TypeScript is cross-compiled into JavaScript so that it can be used in web browsers. A map file is create…

Does software only get attention when something goes wrong? If so, you’re not alone.
Manufacturing businesses can often view software solutions as a fix to a problem, rather than a business enabler. But having adaptable systems is key to enabling your business to scale in line with your ambitions and provide a platform for strategic innovation.
To follow on from Digital Manuf…

Audacia launches a bespoke product database for leading IT reseller, Techbuyer, to enable their global growth.
The six month project delivered a stable and robust platform that reduces downtime, improves reporting, resilience and sales management and provides enriched product data.
Techbuyer IT security manager, Rich Kenny, said:
“We complied an initial list of almost 40 soft…

Continuous improvement is far from a new philosophy. Dating back to the 1950's, Japanese manufacturers such as Toyota decided to make incremental changes in processes and products to remove waste and increase business efficiencies and outcomes.
The same is true today. Through ongoing efforts to improve the quality of services, products and processes through constant review, m…

First, A Little History on .NET
During the late 90s, Microsoft started work on something that they were calling Next Generation Windows Services (or NGWS for short). NGWS was originally designed to let Windows users access all kinds of services over the Internet.
In fact, in an early presentation for NGWS, Steve Balmer (who hated the name NGWS) said that it would allow users …