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Don’t Panic Labs Announces Latest Towel Drive for People’s City Mission
Local software design and engineering company Don’t Panic Labs is excited to announce the return of its annual towel drive for People’s City Mission. Towels are always in short supply at the Mission, and the donations serve a vital need. From May 17th to May 25th, Don’t Panic Labs is encouraging all of Lincoln to…
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3 Automated Testing Techniques, Part 2: Data-Flow Testing
When writing tests for some new functionality, our goal should be to write the minimum number of tests with the highest likelihood of finding defects. To do this, we need a repeatable, consistent approach to defining our tests that will result in a similar outcome and quality of tests across the development team. In my…
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DPL Reading List – May 7, 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 this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. 5 Mistakes We Make When We’re Overwhelmed – When we’re…
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3 Automated Testing Techniques, Part 1: Basis Testing
When writing tests for some new functionality, our goal should be to write the minimum number of tests with the highest likelihood of finding defects. To do this, we need a repeatable, consistent approach to defining our tests that will result in a similar outcome and quality of tests across the development team. Thankfully, lightweight…
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DPL Reading List – April 30, 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 this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips – Google…
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Updating Angular: Making the Process Smoother
Angular has an interesting history. Angular started in 2010, and it grew into a very popular web framework. But at some point, it was decided that the current Angular structure needed a significant change. So in 2016, a new version of Angular was launched. This broke Angular into two major versions. The v2+ lineage is…
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DPL Reading List – April 23, 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 this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. 3 steps to start tackling your ‘productivity fatigue’ – Some…
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Buttergate, or the Importance of Metrics
Is butter harder? This has been the focus of many Canadians lately, as their butter isn’t spreading across bread or club crackers (which I personally love) as they expect. But, what I don’t love is crackers breaking as I spread butter on them. Harder butter makes that more likely, so this hard butter issue is…
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DPL Reading List – April 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 this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Say Goodbye to Cookies – Cookies have long enabled companies…
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Renewing Your Apple Push Notification SSL Certificate
Your push notification certificate has expired for APNs (Apple Push Notification service). What are you going to do? Luckily for you, this is a common problem. I think, like many things we don’t do very often, this process can be somewhat stressful. Hopefully, this blog post will help remove a little of the stress. Oftentimes,…
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