With the imminent release of Angular 2 and the recent announcements from ng-conf 2016, the World Wide Web is abuzz with news regarding the next big thing. While scepticism was reserved for their initial communication about Angular 2, the team at Google has managed to...

A war is being fought in the hearts and minds of web developers over the next-generation single page application (SPA) frameworks. This conflict is less one of feature set and more of style and aesthetic. There are numerous minor players in this conflict, but two real...

BBD has embarked on a programme to more formally introduce Scrum into BBD. Scrum is one of the cornerstones of Agile Software Development. This year ATC have formally run the Scrum Master and Product Owner Certification Training Courses and attendance has been good....

There is a new language on the block. It’s from one of the most prolific language gurus of our time, Anders Hejlsberg. Yes, the list of languages that many of us have used were created by him, it’s really impressive. Anders is a Danish Computer Software Engineer who...

BBD and Sphere Holdings (Sphere) are today delighted to announce Sphere’s acquisition of an additional 14.2% of BBD, a 32yr old R500 million a year custom software developer. The cash deal sees Sphere’s ownership stake rise to 49.9% which, together with 1.1% held by...

This idea matured, grew some animated characters and ended up in my lap about one year ago. It was at this point that my team and I feverishly started this chaotic journey to deliver the Kids Banking application in record time. Needless to say the timelines never...

BBD represented by Anneke, Refilwe, Dobson and Tiaan participated in the hard preparatory work as well as delivery of the 2016 Local Government Elections (LGE). We are proud of the role we played working with the IEC (Independent Electoral Commission) and our key...

Over the past year and a half we have held a Recipe Race Competition, and from that with a whole lot of creative thinking, hard work and fun, I am pleased to announce BBD’s most recent book, our very own Chef de Cuisine. The book is not only full of your favourite...

JavaScript will not be ignored. The awkward adolescent of yesteryear has come of age; confident, capable and crashing your party. Much to the disdain of your “formal” friends (like the C#/Java clique) it embraces a low ceremony approach to getting stuff done....