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Software Company Don’t Panic Labs Moves to New Downtown Location
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 their partners and better meet the team’s needs as the company’s…
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How To: Sending Emails with Mailgun
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 email functionality in the systems we…
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DPL Reading List – September 10, 2021
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. Collaboration Overload Is Sinking Productivity…
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Reading Code Reviews from the Azure DevOps API
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…
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DPL Reading List – September 3, 2021
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. Qualcomm aptX Lossless delivers CD…
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A History of Microsoft .NET, Part 6: 4.0 (Parallel, Dynamic)
.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 fully brought together. It was released alongside Visual Studio…
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DPL Reading List – August 27, 2021
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. Intel Unveils Big Processor Architecture…
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A History of Microsoft .NET, Part 5: 3.5 SP1 (ADO.NET Entity Framework)
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, giving .NET a Microsoft-provided Object-Relational Mapping (ORM). A lack of ORM was becoming…
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DPL Reading List – August 20, 2021
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 20, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Satellites Can Be a Surprisingly…
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Using AWS Cognito
AWS has a lot of great services, but one of the most useful is also one of the least sexy: a basic user management service called Cognito. Cognito provides authentication for users in the cloud. For those of us used to the Azure world, think Azure B2C but with a less awkward configuration. I actually…
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