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DPL Reading List – July 16, 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 July 16, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. A rare early copy of…
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A History of Microsoft .NET, Part 2: .NET Framework 2.0 (Generics, Partial Classes, Nullable Types, Anonymous Methods)
When .NET Framework 2.0 was initially released, I was working on a .NET Framework 1.1 project that was becoming a bit of a pain. Moving to 2.0 seemed like just the thing the project (and I) needed. The addition of support for generics in 2.0 was a win in and of itself, but also adding…
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DPL Reading List – July 9, 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 July 9, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Up to 1,500 businesses infected…
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A History of Microsoft .NET, Part 1: Introduction
When you’ve been writing software as long as I have, it’s fun to look back at how far technology has advanced throughout your career. I’ve been thinking a bit lately about C and .NET, and basically the whole Microsoft stack. This led me down the rabbit hole of reading and remembering (and sometimes finding out…
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DPL Reading List – July 2, 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 July 2, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018…
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Up-skilling Software Developers: Nebraska Dev Lab Transition Academy
Education has been a common thread throughout our life at Don’t Panic Labs. It used to be about educating our team and the community through various public events. Then we created our Advanced Continuing Education program for developers, a week-long intensive that covers several topics around modern software development. With the creation of Nebraska Dev…
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DPL Reading List – June 25, 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 June 25, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Microsoft unveils Windows 11, a…
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Using CSVHelper
Parsing files is one of the most common coding operations we perform in software development. Often the goal of parsing a file is to transform it into another format. In this blog post, we parse some CSV data, read the data, and write the data to a CSV file. All of which is pretty easy….
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DPL Reading List – June 18, 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 June 18, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Chip shortages lead to more…
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Introduction to PrimeNG
PrimeNG is a framework for building web applications, comparable to Angular Material, which we have used previously. PrimeNG is a lot like Angular Material; it provides a bunch of components we can use to build our web applications. The difference with PrimeNG is the sheer number of components. PrimeNG has more components than Angular material,…
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