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DPL Reading List – May 3, 2019
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. How Microsoft Learned from the past to Redesign Its Future – “Microsoft has clearly learned from its past, and this new design shift is a smart bet for its future. The challenge now is to combine all of Microsoft’s ideas from its…
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Design and Development Clinic Review – April 2019
Doug Durham and I recently completed another Software Design and Development Clinic. This week-long set of classes is designed to help level up software developers into senior developers. For us leading the classes, the week is always exhausting but they’re still one of my favorite weeks of the year. Leading even a small group of…
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DPL Reading List – April 26, 2019
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. YouTube is Responsible for 37% of All Mobile Internet Traffic – “Underlining the popularity of streaming services, YouTube accounts for the most megabytes with 37 percent – an awfully long way ahead of second-placed Facebook with 8.4 percent and Snapchap with 8.3…
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Don’t Panic Labs Named a “Best Place To Work” in Lincoln for 2019
For a third consecutive year, software engineering company Don’t Panic Labs was recognized as one of Lincoln’s Best Places to Work at an award luncheon on April 25th at the Cornhusker Hotel. The company was recognized in the Small-Sized Company category by Woods & Aitken LLP, the Lincoln Journal Star, and the Lincoln Human Resource…
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Setting Up Mobile Badges: Two Methods
We all know those badges on mobile applications, the ones that show a number on application icons and, for many, cause anxiety. If you are like me and get lots of emails, you have seen 300+ of them from time to time. But what many don’t know is how those badges get their numbers. While…
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DPL Reading List – April 19, 2019
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Helvetica, the World’s Most Popular Font, Gets a Facelift – “Now, Monotype has given Helvetica a facelift, in the hopes that it can restore some of the magic to the iconic typeface. The new version, Helvetica Now, updates each of Helvetica’s 40,000…
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MemoryStream Limits: Handling Large Files in Azure with Blob Storage Streaming
We recently deployed a new feature to a website running in Azure App Services to combine multiple files uploaded by users into a single large ZIP file. After deploying to production, we started seeing “Out of Memory” exceptions for one of our users. Our first instinct was that our smaller front-end web servers didn’t have…
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Quick Look – Azure Functions
Azure Functions are an excellent and highly-scalable application development platform in the Azure ecosystem. They also provide a lot of triggers that can be used to invoke those Functions, which allows you to use them as the basis for your application programming. For Amazon Web Services (AWS) developers, Azure Functions are very similar to Lambdas….
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DPL Reading List – April 12, 2019
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Hands-on: First public previews of Chromium-based Edge are now out – “Microsoft has been working on the open source Chromium project to improve areas that are important to the company: ARM64 compatibility, integration with Windows’ accessibility features to improve support for screen…
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Using Azure Active Directory B2C with Angular
In my previous Azure B2C post, we used Azure Active Directory B2C with an ASP.NET backend. Microsoft makes this a pretty seamless experience. You configure your Azure B2C application and then configure your ASP.NET web application. That’s it! But what if you want to use an Angular frontend? Using Azure B2C with Angular is similar…
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