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DPL Reading List – September 28, 2018
Here are some of the articles we found this week. Carnegie Mellon is Saving Old Software from Oblivion – “While perusing such vintage source code might delight hard-core programmers, most people aren’t interested in such things. What they want to do is use the software. But keeping software in ready-to-run form over long periods of…
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Question Mark
Questions are an essential part of any development process. Developing software is a continual process. We are always writing the next piece of software. New tasks are kind of like the mail for mailmen, the mail just keeps coming. The tasks just keep coming. It is very easy to get heads down and stop asking…
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DPL Reading List – September 21, 2018
Here are some of the articles we found this week. Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure – “In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access. But what if…
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Top 10 Things Overheard in a Development Shop
#10 – “It’s not really the best, but…” This is often heard when developers don’t come up with the best solution and have to compromise to something that isn’t quite wonderful. #9 – “What do the logs say?” When problems occur, the first place to look is usually the logs. This actually might be…
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DPL Reading List – September 14, 2018
Here are some of the articles we found this week. Why Seclusion Is the Enemy of Creativity – “Don’t paint yourself into a corner. The walls we build around ourselves are prisons, not fortifications. Vulnerability is a source of strength. We earn others’ trust by extending our trust to them.” How IBM and the CDC…
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Mobile Technology Choices – Executive Summary
Delivering applications for mobile devices is essential for many business applications. For much of the business software we write at Don’t Panic Labs, some sort of mobile experience is necessary and can be done in many ways. This post will walk through many of the options available today. There really isn’t an “always do it…
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DPL Reading List – September 7, 2018
Here are some of the articles we found this week. 6 apps to help you refocus after your summer vacation – “After months of laid-back, half-day Fridays, vacations, and a general slowdown in the office, once autumn arrives, it’s back to business. This can be a stressful transition for many professionals who must now switch…
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Top Ten Software Villains
This afternoon, Doug Durham presented the afternoon keynote at the 2018 Heartland Developers Conference. In his presentation, entitled “Be the Hero – Stop Being the Development Villain”, talks about the ways we as developers can sometimes be the villain and contribute to why software often breaks. But there are other villains in this story, ones…
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DPL Reading List – August 31, 2018
Here are some of the articles we found this week. Corporate Cybersecurity Is Becoming Geopolitical. Are U.S. Tech Companies Ready? – “Businesses are interconnected, and therefore threats are, too. Firms should take care to understand how their systems depend on the products and services of other firms; often a close examination will find many more…
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Blog Posts for a Year
I have officially written one blog post per week for one year! I started this endeavor on August 1, 2017 with the post, PHP Through the Eyes of a .NET Engineer. During that time, I have written many blog posts in a single week, then sometimes take a week or two off. I have also…
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