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Using a REST API with Amazon Web Services, Part 2
In our previous blog post, we started our project by setting up a Lambda function in Amazon Web Services (AWS). We didn't dive very deep, we barely even described much about those Lambda functions. Our single Lambda returns all contacts in a table associated with a...
DPL Reading List – January 11, 2019
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. To Cope with Stress, Try Learning Something New – “So what else can employees do to temper the ill effects of stress? Our research suggests a third option: focusing on learning. This can mean...
Using a REST API with Amazon Web Services, Part 1
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a lot of services that make it quick and easy to build software solutions. They provide a lot of services that don’t require a lot of effort to set up. In this post, we are going to set up an AWS backend that can return some contacts that...
The Product Design Lifecycle, Part 1
Those who attended my Vogon Poetry talk on November 13 will notice that we’ve made a few changes to some of the visualizations that I shared. As with our software development processes, we take an iterative approach to just about everything that we do—reacting to...
DPL Reading List – January 4, 2019
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. The Worst Hacks of 2018 – “After years of targeted hacks, epic heists, and run of the mill data breaches you might think that institutions would be getting wise to the importance of strong...
Creating a Progressive Web Application with Angular
Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) are kind of the new hotness right now. Lots of chatter, but most probably can't even spell PWA. 😉 PWAs are an attempt to create applications that live in the web browser and behave like real applications. Let’s take our Angular...
DPL Reading List – December 28, 2018
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. The Yoda of Silicon Valley – “For half a century, the Stanford computer scientist Donald Knuth, who bears a slight resemblance to Yoda — albeit standing 6-foot-4 and wearing glasses — has reigned as...
Quick Look – Angular Async / Await
These days, Async / Await is old hat for most C# developers. Using it in C# land makes async programming almost as readable as synchronous code. What is the difference between synchronous and asynchronous code? Quite frankly, you can read synchronous code and...
DPL Reading List – December 21, 2018
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. 7 of the year’s best books on tech – “It was the tech industry’s ugliest year yet. Fortunately, there were also big books that schooled us on where we stand in the context of a larger era. They...
On Leaving the Best Job You Ever Had
I don’t like to use the word “quit.” It makes it sound like you’re giving up, that you are leaving things incomplete. I write that because I am leaving Don’t Panic Labs; I’m leaving the best job I’ve ever had. This was the plan all along I suppose. During one of my...
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