by Chad Michel | Jun 23, 2022 | Leadership
You will learn a lot during your first year as a software developer. But the biggest surprise may be how vital communication is to the success of software projects. Many of the things learned during the first year boil down to communication. Project management, task... 
by Russ Guill | Jun 17, 2022 | News
Software product and design company Don’t Panic Labs was recognized as one of Lincoln’s Best Places to Work at a ceremony at Haymarket Park on Thursday, June 16th. The company was recognized as #1 in the Medium-Sized Company category by Woods & Aitken LLP, the... 
by Chad Michel | Jun 16, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Software Engineering
Our previous activities got us an Angular application making an HTTP call to a .NET Core backend to retrieve a shopping list. In this activity, we will extend our .NET backend to use SQL Server. First, let’s create a Shopping database. Next, we need to create a... 
by Christian Peters | Jun 15, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
When working on a front-end project, it can be hard to keep consistency with your file’s formatting (spacing, indentation, quotation style, etc.). Prettier works with your code to ensure consistency and allows your team to set shared standards. Prettier works... 
by Chad Michel | Jun 7, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Azure’s Application Gateway service is a load balancer. It allows for the distribution of traffic across multiple servers. This isn’t a tool we often use at Don’t Panic Labs; we tend to use more of Azure’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) tools. However,... 
by Chad Michel | Jun 1, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
In my previous blog post, we dove into API Keys and AWS’s API Gateway. What we covered was pretty straightforward: we globally applied an API key and usage plan to an API. But we don’t have to do that. We can apply an API Key to an individual resource, not all... 
by Chad Michel | May 25, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
API Gateway is an Amazon product that sits in front of APIs we create (which are probably hosted in AWS Lambda). Sometimes we want to limit who can access certain APIs. There are a variety of ways we can accomplish this. The first and most obvious is with API keys.... 
by Chad Michel | May 17, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Building modern software often involves a Single Page Application (SPA) calling to a backend service. This is pretty straightforward, but there are more steps than you would expect. In this blog post, we will walk through creating an Angular application that calls a... 
by Russ Guill | May 12, 2022 | News
Local software design and engineering company Don’t Panic Labs is excited to announce the return of its annual towel drive for People’s City Mission. From May 16th to May 27th, Don’t Panic Labs is encouraging all of Lincoln to donate towels in any condition for use at... 
by Chad Michel | May 10, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
After creating an ASP.NET Beanstalk application, you might be wondering, “Where are my logs?” Without configuring CloudWatch, my logs do show within the Beanstalk UI. Note: The below image assumes no CloudWatch. After clicking Logs, you need to click Request Logs and...