We had a requirement to provide a support forum in our online store for Secret Server which led to the classic "Buy vs. Build" decision. Build : The requirements were very simple and it could be developed in-house but who wants to write simple forum code when it has been done many times before?! Buy...

While this doesn't classify as great development practice, sometimes a well tested hotfix to a production site is just the right thing to solve a client's problem quickly. In our case, the problem was too many emails being sent due to ClientScriptExceptions (our own custom Exception that is thrown when...

Our product, Secret Server , uses the DotLucene API for searching of items ("secrets") in the application. DotLucene is an impressive API which creates index files on disk based on the data you feed to it. It then allows for some very powerful text searches to find data such as "amazon.com~" which will...

This is an opportunity to get incredible work experience with hardcore .NET consultants defining the current state of the art in Agile .NET development. A Thycotic Summer Internship in Software Development will allow you to work on interesting projects (such as Secret Server ) and develop your own solutions...

Many companies are deeply embedded in pure Microsoft development (such as thycotic ) but do not necessarily use any of the Microsoft server products (MS CMS, BizTalk, SharePoint) in their solutions. These shops are typically building applications using custom WinForm/ASP.NET, C#/VB.NET and a Microsoft...

Nothing like a deadline to focus the mind. Our goal is to promote the new version of myclockwatcher.com this week at PDC in Los Angeles. We have worked hard to get some great new features into the latest version in time for the conference. I arrived this morning from Washington DC to an airport in the...

I am back from a weeks break in one of my favorite places - the Outer Banks in North Carolina. After much sun, playing with my new toy and getting to spend quality with the family - it is time for a "just back" blogpost. I am sifting through the inevitable pile of email and came across something that...

Wednesday was thycotic 's first Microsoft Certification Exam Day . This is a new initiative at our company to put dates to our goals and focus our minds on certification. Most of our consultants have one or two certifications on their list for annual employee goals. Human nature usually allows this to...

Thycotic has recently engaged on a consulting project that is completely VB.NET. This is not our usual (C#) stomping ground so there are plenty of opportunities for us to learn new things and make sure that we steer clear of the religious arguments! I have been developing primarily in C-style languages...

Joel Spolsky has written an interesting piece about the idea of "eating your own dogfood" which simply means using your own software - people who buy dogfood don't eat it. Over the years, I have seldom been in the position to use the software that Thycotic Software Ltd has developed. The software has...