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Book Review: Range
Like many readers, I have enjoyed many of Malcolm Gladwell’s books. His book Outliers has been very influential on our culture’s thoughts. The 10,000-hour rule is known by most of us at this point; it has almost become a rule that people believe to be true. But in the book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in…
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DPL Reading List – November 15, 2019
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. The Transformer’s Dilemma – How can companies reap the full potential…
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NDepend: Powerful Static Code Analysis
How do you effectively evaluate a software solution? This is a question commonly heard in software development. It reminds me of a question posed in Caddyshack, “How do you compare yourself to other golfers?”, to which Chevy Chase responds with, “By height.” Analysis of a system usually requires a lot of leg work, poring through…
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DPL Reading List – November 8, 2019
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. Microsoft launches a Q&A site to replace MSDN and TechNet –…
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Apple Says “No” to UIWebView, Ionic Counters with Capacitor
Apple continually updates its products and technologies. While that’s usually a thing to relish, it sometimes comes at a cost. One such recent change is the UIWebView component. Apple has warned developers that UIWebView is deprecated, and at some point, they will stop allowing app store submissions for applications that use it. If you need…
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DPL Reading List – November 1, 2019
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. 50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420…
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Spooky Tales from the Dev Side
Software development can be a pretty scary business. Things randomly break, and you sometimes don’t even know why. Since Halloween is this week, let’s look at some examples from people here at Don’t Panic Labs. When Optimizations Don’t The first is something many of us have experienced: everything in production works fine…until it doesn’t. In…
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DPL Reading List – October 25, 2019
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 we didn’t include and you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Early cloud computing was like borrowing a…
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Working for Steaks
Ribeye steaks are one of my favorite things. Not sirloins, not New York strips, but ribeyes. I love a good fatty steak cooked with salt, pepper, and compound butter. Very tasty. So, of course, I was happy when we got to work with the Nebraska Cattlemen Association. The application we built with Cattlemen provides a…
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DPL Reading List – October 18, 2019
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 we didn’t include and you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. A series of mysterious bleeps and bloops…
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