by Russ Guill | Apr 21, 2022 | News
Software product and design company Don’t Panic Labs is proud to announce that it has completed the purchase of investment fund Nebraska Global’s interest in the company. “This is a red-letter day in the history of Don’t Panic Labs,” said Doug Durham, CEO and... 
by Chad Michel | Apr 19, 2022 | Leadership
The future isn’t certain, but my decisions today will impact tomorrow. We had agency in the past, we have agency in the present, and that agency will impact our future. Sometimes we joke that a particular problem is for “Future Us”. Sometimes we shorten it to... 
by Chad Michel | Apr 12, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
Postman is a tool we use to test our APIs while building them. Its UI helps make this stage in development quick and easy. But a lot of the work we do in Postman is often single-use. We write the tests, but why can’t we keep them? Actually, we can keep them.... 
by Chad Michel | Apr 5, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Technology
Estimating cloud costs isn’t always easy, especially if your goal is to be super exact. The desire to be super precise will probably cause you to spend more time estimating the costs of resources than the resources might cost themselves. Always remember that... 
by Chad Michel | Mar 29, 2022 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Software Engineering
Sometimes you can’t get into SQL Server. Maybe you forgot a password, or something got misconfigured. You are locked out. What to do when this happens? My go-to is putting SQL Server in Single-User Mode. Doing this is pretty straightforward. First, open a... 
by Chad Michel | Mar 22, 2022 | Technology, Tools
CouchDB is a pretty amazing technology, but it is a little unique. With many data stores, you just query data. You can do that with CouchDB’s Mango queries, but CouchDB’s primary way to query data is by using views. Views are pre-created, much like... 
by Chad Michel | Mar 15, 2022 | Technology, Tools
A lot of the software we build involves hosting some part of it on a web server. Today, most of what we host is hosted in the cloud PaaS (Platform as a Service). This means we don’t have to look into some more classic hosting options such as Apache or IIS; the... 
by Chad Michel | Mar 10, 2022 | Software Engineering
We all build everything for the cloud, right? Sometimes we get very focused on a small world, often believing that all software is some cloud-focused startup. But that isn’t accurate. Much of software development isn’t geared toward the cloud; it is geared... 
by Andrew Tarr | Mar 8, 2022 | Software Engineering, Tools
Like many of you, I was introduced to the Wordle craze a few weeks ago by a peer who thought I was too focused on “actual work”. Naturally, I dropped everything to try this new game and then passed a link to the game around to my friends and family like a... 
by Chad Michel | Mar 3, 2022 | Software Engineering
“Sufficiency, completeness, and primitiveness – Achieving sufficiency and completeness means ensuring that a software component captures all the important characteristics of an abstraction and nothing more. Primitive- ness means the design should be based on...