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A GitHub Action for Testing Against a PostgreSQL Database
Automated testing is an integral part of any software development project. Developers should be building these tests while they work on the actual code. A significant value of automated tests is that they can be run on every pull request. This can ensure that the tests are run in a consistent environment and not just…
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Our Next Bold Move
It is a very exciting day for us at Don’t Panic Labs. Today, we are announcing that we have completed the purchase of investment fund Nebraska Global’s interest in the company. I’m not sure how to put this other than saying that this is a big deal. Perhaps it’s as significant as the steps taken…
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Don’t Panic Labs Employees Buy Full Interest in Company
Software product and design company Don’t Panic Labs is proud to announce that it has completed the purchase of investment fund Nebraska Global’s interest in the company. “This is a red-letter day in the history of Don’t Panic Labs,” said Doug Durham, CEO and co-founder of Don’t Panic Labs. “Our team has always been key…
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FU It
The future isn’t certain, but my decisions today will impact tomorrow. We had agency in the past, we have agency in the present, and that agency will impact our future. Sometimes we joke that a particular problem is for “Future Us”. Sometimes we shorten it to “FU It”, Future Us it. This is a silly…
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Postman Tests
Postman is a tool we use to test our APIs while building them. Its UI helps make this stage in development quick and easy. But a lot of the work we do in Postman is often single-use. We write the tests, but why can’t we keep them? Actually, we can keep them. Follow along as…
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Estimating Your Cloud Costs
Estimating cloud costs isn’t always easy, especially if your goal is to be super exact. The desire to be super precise will probably cause you to spend more time estimating the costs of resources than the resources might cost themselves. Always remember that development time is expensive. Trying to estimate down to the dollar isn’t…
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SQL Server Single-User Mode
Sometimes you can’t get into SQL Server. Maybe you forgot a password, or something got misconfigured. You are locked out. What to do when this happens? My go-to is putting SQL Server in Single-User Mode. Doing this is pretty straightforward. First, open a command shell in administrator mode. Then stop the SQL Server Service. net…
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CouchDB Views
CouchDB is a pretty amazing technology, but it is a little unique. With many data stores, you just query data. You can do that with CouchDB’s Mango queries, but CouchDB’s primary way to query data is by using views. Views are pre-created, much like creating any document within CouchDB. After creating your view, you can…
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Caddy
A lot of the software we build involves hosting some part of it on a web server. Today, most of what we host is hosted in the cloud PaaS (Platform as a Service). This means we don’t have to look into some more classic hosting options such as Apache or IIS; the platform solves this…
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Designing for On-Prem
We all build everything for the cloud, right? Sometimes we get very focused on a small world, often believing that all software is some cloud-focused startup. But that isn’t accurate. Much of software development isn’t geared toward the cloud; it is geared to on-premises hosting (on-prem for short). Probably one of the big differences between…
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