by Chad Michel | Sep 21, 2021 | Our Engineering
Hosting your backend solution used to be pretty straightforward for .NET developers. You were basically writing an ASP.NET website that was hosted in IIS. Today there are a lot of options, of which IIS is still one of them. Many of the web applications we write today... 
by Russ Guill | Sep 17, 2021 | DPL Reading List
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found for the week ending September 17, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. ... 
by Russ Guill | Sep 15, 2021 | News
Software development and engineering company Don’t Panic Labs is relocating to a new location in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. The company will be located at 1317 Q Street Suite 150 beginning Monday, October 4th. The move stems from a desire to improve how they serve... 
by Chad Michel | Sep 14, 2021 | Our Engineering
Sending emails is a common feature in software these days. A user signs up, we send an email. A user places an order, we send an email. This sort of action happens all over. So it isn’t surprising that as software developers, it’s pretty common for us to include... 
by Russ Guill | Sep 10, 2021 | DPL Reading List
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found for the week ending September 10, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. ... 
by Chad Michel | Sep 8, 2021 | Our Engineering
Code reviews are one of the best things you can use as a proxy for how things are going on a project. Just the lack of code reviews is very telling. But how long it takes to do code reviews can also be telling, as can the size of code reviews. If you have to review... 
by Russ Guill | Sep 3, 2021 | DPL Reading List
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found for the week ending September 3, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. ... 
by Chad Michel | Aug 31, 2021 | Technology
.NET Framework 4, in some ways, is “the” .NET. This is when .NET felt like a super solid platform that didn’t need anything else. It was great. Ironically, I don’t think .NET 4 added much over .NET 3.5, but it felt like a clean solution was... 
by Russ Guill | Aug 27, 2021 | DPL Reading List
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found for the week ending August 27, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. ... 
by Chad Michel | Aug 24, 2021 | Technology
SqlConnection, SqlCommand, SqlDataReader, and SqlDataAdapter are classes we were very familiar with in 2008. If you wanted to write a database query, you were probably using a combination of these classes. Things changed in 2008 with the release of .NET 3.5 SP1,...