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Sinara at 30: our first office (1992 – 1994)

In 2019, Sinara Consultants are celebrating our 30th anniversary. This second post in a series to mark this milestone covers 1992 – 94, when Sinara established our first permanent office and started to specialise in software for financial market data. Sinara has always been a leading indicator for the location of good value London office (more…)

April 23, 2019

Building a Dictionary in TypeScript

It only takes a quick search of “JavaScript” in r/ProgrammerHumor to understand the love/hate relationship that software developers have with JavaScript. The language boasts dynamic types, which therefore creates a lack of type-safety, often leading to weird and wonderful results. One of the subreddit’s favourite examples is: [6, -2, 2, -7].sort(); (more…)

April 12, 2019

Sinara at 30: the early years (1989 -1991)

In 2019, Sinara Consultants are celebrating our 30th anniversary. To mark this significant milestone, we’ll be publishing a series of blog entries that look back on some of the events and projects over that time. This entry covers our early years, including the search for a name and challenging customer feedback (flying keyboards!). (more…)

April 8, 2019

Sinara celebrates 30th Anniversary in 2019

Sinara Consultants Limited is delighted to be celebrating our 30th anniversary in 2019. Over all that time we’ve designed, written and supported a lot of

April 4, 2019

SignalR Coding Best Practices – Revisited

Nearly 3 years ago, I wrote a short blog post on basic best practices for using SignalR to add real-time functionality to web applications. Since then, our teams at Sinara have built many more web applications of varying complexity using SignalR, and have gradually refined our technique over time. In this blog post, I’ll (more…)

May 15, 2018

Using LINQ for Data Access

Data access is an underlying aspect of almost all applications, whether through external sources such as XML and databases, or information internal to the application. For a long time, despite advancements in object-oriented programming, there was a lack of good facilities for querying and manipulating data. Then, along came .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ), (more…)

April 19, 2018

Machine Learning

The amount of data that gets generated by companies is continuously growing – the term “Big Data” is commonly used to describe this, whether it is multiple financial transactions per second, thousands of emails per day or a million hours of video content in YouTube. This brings about a good amount of new challenges (more…)

February 13, 2018

Blockchain – Part 3 – Smart Contracts

In this final post in our three part series on Blockchain, we discuss an important idea in this space, smart contracts. This featured heavily at recent Blockchain Summits and similar conferences, and is a topic of great interest and research. (more…)

January 29, 2018

Developing Secure Systems

Sinara has been developing leading financial solutions for over 25 years, and throughout that time, the need to develop secure systems has been a constant.

January 10, 2018

Blockchain – Part 2 – Applications

This is the second in a three part series on blockchain, focusing on some of its potential applications. Of course, it’s impossible to talk about this subject without mentioning the original: Bitcoin. However, there is plenty written about this on the Internet so suffice to say that this is a digital currency (more…)

October 24, 2017

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Sinara at 30: our first office (1992 – 1994)

Building a Dictionary in TypeScript

Sinara at 30: the early years (1989 -1991)

Sinara celebrates 30th Anniversary in 2019

SignalR Coding Best Practices – Revisited

Using LINQ for Data Access

Machine Learning

Blockchain – Part 3 – Smart Contracts

Developing Secure Systems

Blockchain – Part 2 – Applications

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