Lacey Butler

Colonial Life Drives Field Sales Productivity with .NET, Mobile, and DevOps

January 5th, 2018

The .NET community is millions of developers strong, with people around the world turning ideas into apps across web, mobile, desktop, and the newest connected device platforms. Colonial Life’s developers know that whatever you’re building, user experience matters, and they’ve used their C# expertise to equip their field sales agent

Fidelity Mobile Unites Brazilian Citizens and Elected Officials with Real-Time Chat Apps

December 5th, 2017

Real-time messaging apps are becoming commonplace, allowing us to communicate immediately or asynchronously with individuals and groups. Inspired by chat apps’ success with consumer businesses, Fidelity Mobile and the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso, one of Brazil’s state governments, developed their a real-time m-government chat

Learn How The Lean Cook Uses Mobile to Drive Revenue and Promote Healthy Living

September 18th, 2017

The Lean Cook, a popular UK diet and fitness blog started as a hobby by a husband and wife team, is a prime example of how to design apps for the user. Instead of simply replicating web content on a smaller screen, the team crafted an interactive shopping and cooking experience. They’ve grown a loyal following, and their latest pr

Digitally Imported Delivers 10 Music Streaming Apps to Millions of Fans Globally

September 7th, 2017

One of the first music streaming services and the #1 radio network for electronic music fans, Digitally Imported’s laser focus on UX and mobile quality helps them retain their competitive edge and keep users coming back for more. The team has grown from one developer and one app to a global team supporting five (near five-star) music ge

Speech Central Makes it Easier to Browse the Internet Hands-Free

August 17th, 2017

Labsii is a Serbian-based software development firm focused on creating better accessible, utility-driven apps for everyday tasks. Their Speech Central app allows users to use remote controls, such as those on headphones or Bluetooth commands, to browse the web, select articles they'd like to listen to in depth, and initiate text-to-s

Payit Brings Peer-to-Peer Payments to Mexico with Mobile DevOps and the Cloud

August 9th, 2017

Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more here.   Payit’s mobile apps are revolutionizing how Mexican residents pay bills and request and send money among friends and family. Initially a web-only way to pay rent, the founding team quickly realized that their customers were paying each other using th

Pragma Delivers High Performance Apps Field Service Employees Love

July 26th, 2017

Employees expect five-star experiences from their work apps. Pragma delivers the fully native apps that field personnel want to use, while using the language, IDE, and code its development team knows and loves. On Key Work Manager (available on Android and iOS) eliminates decades old paper-based processes, allowing field staff to view wor

Guitar Center’s Five-Star Xamarin.Forms Apps Bring Music to the Masses

July 18th, 2017

The best brands, and the most popular apps, deliver personalized experiences that help us accomplish exactly what we want to do, when we want to do it. Developers need to create contextual, relevant mobile apps and make it easy for users to transition across device types and platforms, from phones to tablets and web to wearables (and back

Urban Refuge’s Refugee Aid Mobile Apps Turn Research into Action

July 12th, 2017

Started by a group of Boston University students 2015, Urban Refuge uses technology to improve both urban refugees' experience and humanitarian organizations' ability to coordinate resources, making aid available via a centralized, easy-to-access database. Urban Refuge’s research found that simply making options available o

Aggreko Provides Power and Temperature Control Apps for a Global Audience with Xamarin and Azure

June 29th, 2017

.NET developers use mobile and cloud technology to impact and change society, from projects that help visually impaired people “see” to detecting Ebola in West Africa and making college education more accessible, among countless other applications. Aggreko, for example, provides heating, cooling, and electricity to thousands of global