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Look Before You Leap
At Don’t Panic Labs, we strive to instill individuals with the mindset of “think like an engineer”. By this, we mean that developers should be thinking more than just how to write good code; they should be considering as many aspects as possible regarding their project. This could involve learning more about how their application…
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Remote Shelving/Unshelving Changes in Team Foundation Server
Let’s talk shelving. Not the kind you try to build in your garage that never fits together, and not a bunch of milk cartons stacked on each other. I’m talking about source control shelvesets. Think of them as a snapshot of your local workspace at a given time. We use them a lot in many…
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More Than a Way to Unwind
At Don’t Panic Labs, we’re lucky enough to have various ways to unwind after several hours of productive, heads down development. When we’re not scheming and devising contraptions to unleash a deluge of cheeseballs on an unsuspecting victim, we can always take out some pent-up energy on one of our pinball machines. These vintage pieces…
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What I Would Tell My 15-Year-Old Self
I attended the first day of Big Omaha yesterday and was really impressed with the conference. It was my first time there and I plan to be a regular attendee. At the end of the day there was a general Q&A with all of the day’s speakers. One of the questions asked was “If you…
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Interns Invade!
This week marks the largest single influx of personnel the Don’t Panic Labs office has ever experienced. With summer break beginning, we are welcoming 23 student interns from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to start what we expect to be an exciting and fruitful experience for everyone. The students are divided into four separate teams, each…
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Single-Stepping Through MS Code
Microsoft allows you to single-step through the framework code via Visual Studio 2008/10. To enable this under 2010 is trivial. Do the following: Within Visual Studio, open Tools > Options…. The following window displays. Browse to Debugging – Symbols. Make sure the Microsoft Symbol Servers checkbox is checked, and indicate a place on your drive…
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View From The Booth
I’ve created a new category of blog posts called “View From The Booth” where I will share my observations and thoughts that result from experiences working with students and new hires. Much like a coach watching football practice from the top of the stadium, I see quite a bit in my role at Nebraska Global…
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ClickOnce Publish and Deploy from Team Foundation Server 2010
Overview ClickOnce technology is a very powerful way to distribute your applications to end users. It is especially nice for easily distributing updates to your application. Even if you don’t plan to distribute your application using ClickOnce technology, it is still a great tool for deploying daily updates for QA during development. However, publishing and…
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Careful, Interns Are Sharp
It’s shaping up to be a great summer here in Lincoln with our summer interns joining us soon. We’re pretty excited to see them flex their development muscle and to let them take a peek at just what goes on around here. We’ll post more details about the program later, but for now let’s look…
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Enforcing Architecture Rules with Visual Studio
Visual Studio Modeling Projects allow you to quickly generate useful documentation for your design: class diagrams, sequence diagrams, dependency diagrams. All are very nice to look at and useful for getting to know the system. An additional, somewhat hidden feature of Modeling Projects is the ability to enforce architecture rules. In this post I’ll go…
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