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DPL Reading List – May 1, 2020
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. Quarantine work is not Remote work – “What’s the point of…
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Quick Look – Azure App Configuration
Application configuration has always been a pain. It was a pain back in the WinForm days. It was a pain in the ASPX days. It is a pain in the cloud days. Why is app configuration a pain? Quite frankly, it is because of the lack of a reliable and coherent solution. With no real…
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DPL Reading List – April 24, 2020
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. Give your kids a free MIT education, with this new STEM-focused…
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Mocking with API Management
Today we live in a world of service-oriented architecture, often with some sort of single page application (SPA) or mobile application on the front end. Those clients call to our backends running in the cloud. This is pretty much the pattern we see in many of the systems we build today. A majority of systems…
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DPL Reading List – April 17, 2020
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. Digital hoarders: “Our terabytes are put to use for the betterment…
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The Importance of Architecture Reviews
Knowing that you are staying on task isn’t an easy task 🙂 As we build solutions, it is easy to lose conceptual integrity along the way. There are few things more important to the success of a project than having a development team all on the same page. Fred Brooks (from Mythical Man-Month) put a…
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DPL Reading List – April 10, 2020
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. Social Distancing Doesn’t Have to Disrupt Mentorship – During this…
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Visual Studio Angular Template with Full CLI Support
It is common for the team here at Don’t Panic Labs to use an Angular SPA that communicates with a .NET Core backend. Typically we have done so as two wholly separate projects: one for our .NET world and one for our Angular world. For a while, Microsoft has provided a Visual Studio template that…
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DPL Reading List – April 3, 2020
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. Yale’s most popular course ever teaches the science of being happy….
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Top Ten Things Good Developers Love
10. Good requirements Developers like to know what they are building and why. Good requirements are critical to this and are essential for getting developers started right. Also, good requirements are essential for reducing rework. 9. Not being micromanaged Good developers don’t want someone watching each keystroke. They want feedback and guidance, but they…
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