Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sit in a class for the sole purpose of learning how to be a professional software developer? At HCSS, our developers sit in a rigorous 3 month training, filled with curriculum taught by an experienced developer.  Around 2002 when HCSS began teaching classes to their […]

By Betty Lezcano and Allan Leung Readers note: The following story features two different perspectives. One showcases the thoughts of Betty, the candidate, while the other showcases the HCSS representative, Allan’s, thoughts. This is a special story where keeping in touch ultimately led Betty to join the HCSS team.   Betty [2018] I first heard […]

Being a Software Developer Intern at HCSS is multi-faceted. My work revolves mostly around full-stack web development, but I have also learned a lot about the web design process, parsing large datasets into useful reports.    In my team, Credentials Dev, we use a wide variety of tools, which requires me to know a nice […]

Anita, one of our new Quality Assurance Analysts, reflects on her intern to full time journey:

When we think of team building activities, we can say we’ve done escape rooms, happy hours, and team lunches. But when one of the members of your team lives in Colorado, it’s the perfect opportunity to kick team building up to another level!

Visual Studio for Mac is a decent Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for writing .NET on a Mac. One area in which it has trouble is authenticating against a private NuGet feed. (For example, your company might host some common internal libraries). Attempting to configure a private NuGet feed using the Visual Studio for Mac IDE […]

Integration tests need to be reliable. If you’re hitting your actual identity provider with an [Authorize] attribute, your tests will fail if that server ever goes down or makes backwards-incompatible changes. The purpose of an integration test in ASP.NET is to test your application pipeline; not the availability of an external server. Here’s how to […]

1. What do you do here at HCSS? How long have you been here, and how long have you been here as a mom? I’m a User Experience Designer for HCSS Mobile, occasionally contributing to Safety and HeavyJob Web. I’ve been with HCSS for 12 years, and I’m a mom to a 5-year-old and 2-year […]

Growing up I have always loved to program. My first experience with programming was teaching myself how to program in Python because my high school didn’t offer any programming courses. After graduating high school I knew I wanted a career in programming, so I went to Texas A&M to study computer science. Throughout my college […]

Content Providers are one of the four primary components of an Android application. If you’re an Android developer, you’re probably more familiar with the other three: Activity, Service, Broadcast Receiver). Content Providers are used for sharing […]

In the past, when I told friends or family members that I wanted to pursue a career in software development, they looked at me as if I were crazy. I grew up on a farm and have […]

HCSS has used BuddyBuild to help us build our construction software apps for iOS and Android mobile devices. In my opinion, BuddyBuild had the most seamless experience for Android continuous integration (CI). It could build multiple variants and run instrumented tests on an Android emulator out of the box. Unfortunately, BuddyBuild discontinued Android support on […]

Growing up very few kids says they want to work in the construction industry when they are older. It’s an industry seen as only employing blue collar workers to spend hours out in the scorching Sun. The fact […]

My internship experience this summer as a Quality Assurance intern in the Research and Development department has been very engaging and has provided me with many opportunities. The R&D team was created to design new products that […]

When I accepted the opportunity to work for HCSS as a Quality Assurance Automation Intern, I really had no idea what to expect. I originally wanted to work in software development, but all of the positions were […]

As someone who had just graduated from high school, interning at a software company like HCSS felt extremely intimidating. The only experience I’ve had with software development was from the courses I took in school and some personal projects I’ve done in my free time. So when I was assigned to work with the Android […]

Like many college students, I changed my major path during my university career. I was a pharmacy student who realized one semester in, after studying and working in a pharmacy, that it wasn’t what I wanted in […]

Let’s say a user is filling out a form, and they accidentally skip a required field. How can we bring this to their attention? Here’s what we did for a safety inspections app: Showing a Snackbar […]

Tech Talk: Is that even English? Sometimes when you walk the halls of HCSS, you’ll see employees riding hoverboards and hear the sounds of shooting NERF guns. And occasionally you’ll even hear what sounds like a

HCSS has provided balance to my life in more ways than one. I left my job as a full-time software engineer with a Department of Defense contracting company almost four years ago to work as a part-time […]

“A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.” –Martin LeBlanc “You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.” –George Nelson Enlightenment A […]