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DPL Reading List – November 16, 2018
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. What Stan Lee Knew About Managing Creative People – “Stan Lee hated to see an idle artist. The renowned comic book writer and publisher, who died this week at 95, thought idle talent was bored talent, and bored talent was easy to…
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Quick Look – Angular Unit Testing
Unit testing is a valuable part of any development process. It isn’t as useful as many developers make it out to be; there are many things developers should be focused on more than unit tests. Code review is one such thing. But just because it isn’t the most important thing, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be…
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DPL Reading List – November 9, 2018
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. To Keep Pace With Moore’s Law, Chipmakers Turn to ‘Chiplets’ – “Chip chiefs say chiplets will enable their silicon architects to ship more powerful processors more quickly. One reason is that it’s quicker to mix and match modular pieces linked by short…
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Quick Look – Angular HTTP Calls
In my previous post, we focused on binding some data in the UI to data being returned from our ContactsService. In this post, we are going to make this a little more real and modify that service to call an ASP.NET Core backend. For starters, let’s write a quick ASP.NET Core backend that will handle…
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DPL Reading List – November 2, 2018
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics – “Data analytics is a powerful and promising source of competitive advantage. To enable such a strategy in the face of a difficult shortfall of the requisite talent in the marketplace, one…
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Spooky Software Failures
Software is pretty amazing. Without software, a lot of problems could never be solved. Without software, we couldn’t do a lot of things on massive scales. But software has its problems. As a whole, we as an industry don’t have a great track record of preventing these problems. One type of software we would all…
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DPL Reading List – October 26, 2018
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. How Facebook’s Messenger Got Its New Look in a New Jersey Basement – “…the key shaper of the new Messenger’s look is Christian Dalonzo, a 23-year-old who was still an undergraduate at Rowan University in New Jersey when he crafted the “bubbly”…
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Quick Look – Angular Data Binding
In my previous post, we took a quick look at Angular’s routing. In this post, we are taking a quick look at Angular’s data binding. One thing that’s pretty lame about our previous example is all the data is just backed into the page. With this blog post, we are going to pull static data…
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DPL Reading List – October 19, 2018
Here are some of the new and interesting articles we found this week. Paul G. Allen, Microsoft’s Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65 – “Mr. Allen was a force at Microsoft during its first seven years, along with its co-founder, Bill Gates, as the personal computer was moving from a hobbyist curiosity to a mainstream technology,…
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Quick Look – Angular Routing
One of the great things about Angular is that it provides everything pretty much out of the box. You don’t have to string together a bunch of tools, you can just focus on solving problems. In this blog post, we are going to focus on the Angular Router. Since Angular is a single page application…
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