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Mapbox – Visualizing Workout Activities
Creating a custom map for your data has never been easier with tools such as Mapbox. Within minutes you can have your data uploaded and visualized in a stylized map ready to be consumed on the web or by a mobile app. Mapbox Studio is a one-stop shop for uploading...
Useful Textbooks from a Computer Science Degree
Editor's Note: This post was originally published on Cassey's Thoughts, her personal blog. In my time as an undergraduate studying Computer Science, I came across several textbooks that were really useful. (This may be a surprise to you; it was to me when I finally...
DPL Reading List – July 21, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Three Lessons On Innovation I Learned During My 12 Years At Apple – “Companies can’t afford to stay stagnant, and that means getting better at recognizing and practicing innovation. We...
Custom Configuration Sections
AppSettings in app.config is great for making your app configurable without having to recompile it. You specify a key to get a value to avoid hardcoding configurations. There are two advantages to creating your own custom configuration over basic appSettings:...
Lab Reaction: What UX Designers Can Learn From IKEA
After designing interfaces for the last ten years, I've caught myself on many occasions forgetting there is a world of design outside the computer. It's easy to stay deep in the inspiration of your industry. While it is good to keep up on developing trends, it's also...
DPL Reading List – July 14, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Burnout at Work Isn’t Just About Exhaustion. It’s Also About Loneliness – “Recent studies estimate that loneliness costs employers in the UK billions of dollars each year and employee...
Knitting Your Web Code Together in a New Way: Why I Started Using Yarn
A while back I was reading posts about the top development tools of 2016 and what to watch out for in 2017, and both of them mentioned Yarn Package Manager. I hadn’t heard of it so I read a bit more into it and it sounded very interesting. A couple months later I was...
Dynamically Resizing UITableViewCells in Xamarin.iOS
I recently needed to implement a UI that required a UITableViewCell to have an expandable “notes” fields within it, with the expansion triggered by a button within the cell itself. Getting this to work was a little tricky. So if you find yourself in this situation, I...
DPL Reading List – July 7, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. What’s Your Best Innovation Bet? – “New product ideas are not the only—or even the most important—outcome of this exercise. Perhaps more valuable is the big-picture perspective it can give...
Don’t Panic Labs and AIM Interface School Announce Partnership to Expand Software Education
Lincoln-based software design and development company Don’t Panic Labs and Omaha-based AIM Interface School are proud to announce a partnership to provide continuing education for professional software developers in the Omaha area. Through this partnership, AIM...