PrizmDoc Application Services (PAS) Overview

We’ve received some questions from customers recently about PrizmDoc Application Services, such as: What is PrizmDoc Application Services (PAS)? Why do I need it? How does it benefit me? I’m interested in PrizmDoc Cloud hosted, why do I need to install PAS? Where do I install it? To provide some further clarity, we’re going to answer these questions for you today. What is PAS? So, just what is PAS? PAS is a service that provides…

The Mobile Workforce and Security

With today’s constantly growing technology, everyone is accessible at any given moment. While technology gives our social lives mobility, it also provides an outlet for mobile work. It’s forecasted that mobile workers will make up nearly 75 percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020. Yet 20 percent of employees say their companies’ files are still difficult to access from mobile devices. How can we ease this burden? Experts say the cloud is a perfect way…

Visualizing TeamCity Dependencies with Python

James Waugh, Accusoft Software Engineer In many cases at Accusoft, we are tasked with commanding large TeamCity build chains, sometimes interacting with dozens of build configurations: build tests, run them, and build all their dependencies! Being able to visualize these relationships is a benefit to my team that allows them to discuss these relationships and discover potential issues, so I created a Python 2.7 script to do so. The script is invoked by passing the…

Vue.js: Embracing Reactive JavaScript Without Losing Your Mind

Andrew Bogdanov, Accusoft Software Engineer Einstein once said: “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” What sometimes disappoints me in today's world of front-end development is that with all of the complexity that is rising day-by-day, we are getting further and further from that concept. Do you remember the good old days when everything you needed to build a simple front-end project would require you to hook up a link to jQuery CDN…

For Barcodes, The Best May Be Yet To Come

Barcodes are ubiquitous around the world. They’ve been a mainstay of grocery stores for decades, and in the past ten years, found on mobile phones and advertising. But the history of barcode technology goes back much further, and the use cases for it continue to evolve. The genesis of the barcode can be traced back to Harvard University in 1932 where a student project proposed that customers could select goods from a catalog by pulling…