

D365 F&O, OData, Slashes, Pluses, and Double Encoding
Certain characters, such as forward slashes, pluses, and backslashes need to be DOUBLE encoded.

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Jul 3, 20202 min read
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How Much Does Custom Software Development Cost?
At Elegant Software Solutions, we sell the services of Baseline Teams of Technologists, and we sell them on a quarterly basis.

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Jul 3, 20208 min read
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Why Does Offshore or Nearshore Cost More than Advertised
Years ago, I worked for another consulting company and nearly 80% of our work was fixing failed offshore engagements.

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Jun 24, 20204 min read
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Why Outsourcing Software Development to an Onshore Provider is Better than Offshore or Nearshore
A developer who charges $5/hour is going to produce $5 work. A developer who charges $100/hour is going to deliver $100 work.

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Jun 17, 20204 min read
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Why Outsourcing Software Development is a Good Idea
Budgets burn fast, and if your team isn't well-calibrated and good at what they do, you can find yourself in an unhappy place very quickly.

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Jun 10, 20205 min read
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Why are Software Developers so Difficult to Manage?
Software developers are notoriously difficult to manage. We're a pain. Just like professional salespeople, we tend to be prima donnas.

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Jun 3, 20205 min read
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Calculating Business Days and Excluding Holidays in SQL Server
Rather than jumping straight to the final answer, I started at the basics of working with dates in SQL and built on those to get to the end

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Jul 13, 20184 min read
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Atomic Web Design in Practice: Atoms, Molecules, and Organisms
Recently I was in a discussion about our approach to component-based front-end web-design with a colleague; we were looking at some screens

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Jul 5, 20183 min read
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The Basics of Feature Toggling
The airlines business model as it relates to feature toggling is a very simple example; however, in regards to software products, the techni

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Jun 28, 20183 min read
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Porting a .NET web app from Visual Studio to MonoDevelop on Linux
If you’re going to host your apps on Linux, you may also want to develop them in a Linux environment. That’s easy enough to do with a Linux

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Oct 21, 20173 min read
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