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Technical debt goes company-wide
Strategy
Technical debt goes company-wide

Technical debt isn’t unique to applications: it can also apply to a business in general. We speak with Carlo Rossi, Spiria’s digital solutions expert in the Montreal office, who brings his many years of experience and a keen analytical mind to all…
Spiria  - 
September 22, 2022
7 risks associated with migrating a database to the cloud (DBaaS)
Strategy
7 risks associated with migrating a database to the cloud (DBaaS)

Migrating a database to the cloud is an increasingly popular option for organizations looking to improve their data management and reduce costs.
Karl  Delagrange  - 
January 26, 2023
Web access for all
Web development
Web access for all

There’s no denying that the Internet is essential for communication, work, and entertainment. Access to cyberspace has become an essential right, and with this come colossal efforts to make the world wide web accessible to all to accomplish an…
Guy  Verville  - 
August 2, 2022
Trends in mobile application development
Mobile development
Trends in mobile application development

What are the current trends in mobile development? We talked with Sebastian Dwornik in Spiria’s Toronto office. He is the digital solutions and technology specialist, with a strong focus on the mobile apps space in particular. He has a hand in all…
Spiria  - 
June 2, 2022
Six Misconceptions about Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Six Misconceptions about Artificial Intelligence

Understanding artificial intelligence (AI) is not easy: the myths and inaccuracies about it are rife. However, since AI is bound to become a part of our daily lives, we, as business decision makers, politicians, activists, or consumers, must learn…
Karl  Delagrange  - 
May 6, 2022
A powerful polyphony of women’s voices at Spiria
Working environment
A powerful polyphony of women’s voices at Spiria

In honor of International Women’s Day, we gathered women employees at Spiria for a virtual round table to hear them talk about women in the field of digital technology, on how far we have come, what remains to be done, and what inspires them on any…
Spiria  - 
March 10, 2022
inSpiria: The most fun you can have without getting out of your pyjamas
Spirian news and press releases
inSpiria: The most fun you can have without getting out of your pyjamas

From February 8 to 11, all of us at Spiria marched to the beat of a different drum. For the fourth time in our history, we gathered the whole company for inSpiria. While the primary goal of this event is to inspire, we also use it to learn, explore…
Stéphane  Rouleau  - 
February 17, 2022
Integrate security in the software development cycle, but slow down the project?
Method and best practices
Integrate security in the software development cycle, but slow down the project?

An interview with Garett Spencley-Sales, software architect, lead developer and security specialist.
Spiria  - 
February 3, 2022
What are the most popular mobile apps?
Mobile development
What are the most popular mobile apps?

Smartphone applications are all the rage. They make up an ecosystem onto themselves, constantly offering something new to meet our every need, from entertainment to communication, and from cooking to investing.
Karl  Delagrange  - 
January 27, 2022

From Our Experts

Dynamic Serving vs. Responsive Web Design
Mobile development
Dynamic Serving vs. Responsive Web Design

When it comes to adapting Web sites to go mobile for smart phones or tablets, there are two radically different technical solutions. Neither one is inherently superior to the other; they both have advantages and disadvantages. The nature of your Web…
Laurent  Gloaguen  - 
October 6, 2022
Sprint Planning: the Most Important Agile Ceremony
Method and best practices
Sprint Planning: the Most Important Agile Ceremony

In the last two decades, Agile development has become the software industry’s most commonly used development process, and Scrum its most popular framework. During my career working for various companies, I noticed that managers used Agile…
Mathieu  Villegas  - 
September 8, 2022
Using Git in cPanel, the console way
Web development
Using Git in cPanel, the console way

While cPanel offers a Git Version Control feature, I have always preferred to have full control via a terminal window. It is actually very simple to integrate Git on such a server and this article describes the steps.
Guy  Verville  - 
August 24, 2022
Tutorial: Dynamic search with htmx, hyperscript and ProcessWire
Web development
Tutorial: Dynamic search with htmx, hyperscript and ProcessWire

Using ProcessWire, you can easily create a dynamic search with very little code. This search can’t compete with engines such as Elasticsearch or Solr, of course. However, it is suitable for most “showcase” sites. Here’s how we did it on Spiria’s…
Guy  Verville  - 
March 17, 2022
Docker as an outstanding learning and evaluation environment
Method and best practices
Docker as an outstanding learning and evaluation environment

Docker makes for a great learning environment. Its disruptive impact on other technologies became clear to me as soon as I set to learning it. Docker puts these tools within easy reach so that, given a decent grasp of the Docker ecosystem (Docker…
Cyril  Julien  - 
February 24, 2022
QTable Widgets and List Views
Desktop application development
QTable Widgets and List Views

How often have you wanted to place additional widgets in the header row of a list view or a table view? Take, for example, a checkmark in the header in order to turn on and off an entire column. Qt 5 does not natively support this feature.
Pierre  Baillargeon  - 
October 21, 2021
Tutorial: The file structure in a ProcessWire site
Web development
Tutorial: The file structure in a ProcessWire site

Coming to grips with a programming universe always takes time. The available ProcessWire documentation, while excellent, doesn’t yield a complete picture of a site’s structure. As I have been asked to explain the philosophy and behaviour of the CMS…
Guy  Verville  - 
May 27, 2021
Tutorial: ProcessWire-style rendering strategy
Web development
Tutorial: ProcessWire-style rendering strategy

One of the best practices in programming is to separate the container from the content (data). This is based on the principle that if we need to change a data item, this will prevent touching the representation of that item and, vice versa: if we…
Guy  Verville  - 
May 13, 2021

Tech news in brief

Apple’s Lisa is 40!
Tech news in brief
Apple’s Lisa is 40!

On January 19, 1983, Apple, then led by John Sculley, released the Lisa, its new GUI (graphical user interface) computer operable with a mouse. The concept was revolutionary at a time when all operating systems, such as CP/M and MS/DOS, relied on…
Laurent  Gloaguen  - 
January 19, 2023
Five technologies to look out for in 2023
Tech news in brief
Five technologies to look out for in 2023

A recent survey shows that the five areas of computing technology predicted to have the most impact in 2023 are cloud computing, 5G, the metaverse, electric vehicles, and the industrial Internet of Things. The forecast is based on responses from 350…
Laurent  Gloaguen  - 
January 19, 2023
Microsoft trims the sails
Tech news in brief
Microsoft trims the sails

Microsoft confirmed it will lay off about 10,000 employees, or around 4.5% of its global workforce, by the end of Q3 of its 2023 fiscal year. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Microsoft writes that this measure comes as…
Laurent  Gloaguen  - 
January 18, 2023
New Azure OpenAI service
Tech news in brief
New Azure OpenAI service

This week, Microsoft is launching Azure OpenAI, a service that makes it easy to integrate OpenAI artificial intelligence models into cloud applications. Microsoft has been testing this service for just over a year, and it will soon add access to…
Laurent  Gloaguen  - 
January 17, 2023
Time for hard drives to hit the road?
Tech news in brief
Time for hard drives to hit the road?

Hard drive sales have crashed, as evidenced by a 40% drop in 2022. The three industry leaders saw similar drops last year, with a 43.7% shipment decrease for biggest producer Seagate, 40% for Western Digital Technologies and 39.3% for Toshiba. There…
Laurent  Gloaguen  - 
January 16, 2023
PC sales plummet
Tech news in brief
PC sales plummet

The PC market is looking decidedly grim. Figures recently released by Canalys, IDC and Gartner show that worldwide sales in 2022 are way down. Gartner points to a year-over-year 28.5% slump in Q4, the largest quarterly decline since Gartner started…
Laurent  Gloaguen  - 
January 12, 2023
A damaged file grounds thousands of flights
Tech news in brief
A damaged file grounds thousands of flights

On the morning of January 11, an outage of the NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) system grounded over 11,000 US flights. This system equips flight officers with information about any possible flight hazard. Pilots are obligated to consult these…
Laurent  Gloaguen  - 
January 12, 2023
Intel flattens the 6GHz barrier
Tech news in brief
Intel flattens the 6GHz barrier

Intel just launched its fastest desktop processor to date, blowing past the 6GHz barrier at stock speeds for the first time. With Intel’s Thermal Velocity Boost technology, the new Core i9-13900KS (S stands for “Special Edition”) is the first…
Laurent  Gloaguen  - 
January 12, 2023