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West Michigan Software Development Shop Brings on a Total of Eight New Hires in 2018

By Michelle Lentz on January 15, 2019

Allendale, MI, January 15, 2019 -- BizStream, a web and software development shop located near Grand Rapids, MI is proud to announce the addition of 8 new team members in the year 2018. BizStream has brought on the new hires to support project and product growth.

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Disabling Logic Apps from Other Logic Apps

By Albert Hovingh on January 08, 2019

In my previous blog post, How to Build an Azure Logic App, we learned why building Logic Apps can be useful and how to build them in Azure. While Microsoft Azure Logic apps can be used intuitively to connect APIs together, once you create parent/child apps you will eventually want to be able to enable/disable them automatically, that way you can...

What's with the Firepole at BizStream?

By Josh Trench on December 11, 2018

As you wander around our building you will see many awards, pictures, and decorations that give you an idea of BizStream’s history and culture but there is one item that may not be as realized as the others in the lore of BizStream. If you have ever taken a tour of our building here in Allendale (Virtual Tour) then you are most likely...

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How to Build an Azure Logic App

By Albert Hovingh on December 07, 2018

Azure Logic Apps have to be one of the coolest features that Microsoft has put out on their cloud service portal.

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The Business Reasons Why BizStream Decided to Go All in on MVC

By Brian McKeiver on December 03, 2018

Almost two and a half or three years ago now, Mark, founder of BizStream, and I finally made the call to mandate that all new projects (where it made sense) would be developed in ASP.NET MVC for Kentico and not ASP.NET Web Forms (Portal Engine). Fast forward two and half years later, and I would say we have stuck by that decision for 90 to 95...

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Kentico Web Farms with IIS - Issues and Solutions

By Dustin Christians on November 30, 2018

Recently, while I was working on one of our new Kentico MVC sites that is hosted on a Windows Server with IIS, I ran into an issue with the Kentico Web Farm. The automatically updated search index files were not matching between the Kentico CMS app, MVC app or the API app we had set up. The Kentico Web Farm needs to synchronize changes to the...

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GitFlow for Kentico MVC Projects

By Jordan Whiteley on November 28, 2018

Here at BizStream, we’ve been using GitFlow for a while now and as we hit pain points we’ve really seen the wisdom of running with GitFlow standards. We like them, however, they are rather vague as they can apply to a whole lot of development (desktop, mobile, web, IoT, etc...). The normal GitFlow setup has two persistent branches...

Twelve Days of Geeky Christmas

By Michelle Lentz on November 14, 2018

You’re probably here because you received the Christmas card we've rolled out this year and decided to scan that festive QR code on the back. Well firstly, thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed the card! Secondly, the card promised you more information about each of our twelve days of Christmas, so here they are!

BizStream Is a GREAT Place to Work, but It's NOT for Everyone

By Mark Schmidt on October 24, 2018

As the title says, BizStream really is a GREAT place to work, but it is NOT for everyone. And we think that’s OK. We’ve learned over the years that trying to make a place that is perfect for everyone isn’t realistic.

Brian McKeiver to Speak at Kentico Connection

By Michelle Lentz on October 08, 2018

Join BizStream’s Co-Owner and Solution Architect, Brian McKeiver, for his session at Kentico Connection 2018! Kentico Connection brings the Kentico community together to share knowledge, experience, ideas, and inspiration. The conference takes place October 10th-11th in Chicago, IL.

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