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DPL Education – .NET Core and SQLite
Our Software Design and Development Clinics focus on teaching engineers the real-world development skills that will make them more productive and effective. Part of the class is Doug and I covering several topics, but we try to have a real focus on actually doing things. We want students to develop skill and knowledge, which takes…
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DPL Reading List – May 4, 2018
Here are some of the articles we found this week. Google Chrome helps clean up certificate authority industry – “Google Chrome has imposed requirements that all certificate authorities (CAs) log every digital certificate they issue in certificate transparency logs.” Inventing The Next Computer – “Americans spend more than 10 hours every day staring at screens….
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Towel Day is Back: Don’t Panic Labs Hosts Second Annual Towel Drive
Local software development firm Don’t Panic Labs is excited to announce their second annual Towel Day towel drive, which will be held on Friday, May 25. The drive kicks off at 9 am outside the Don’t Panic Labs offices at 151 N 8th Street in Lincoln’s Historic Haymarket District (just outside of KD Designs and…
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Silly Arguments: Schema vs Delta Database Change Control
As we look at arguments we care too much about, one of those would be “should we use a schema (or model) based solution database change control, or should we store off deltas?” First off, source control is useful, and not just for our application code. Storing the database somewhere in source control along with…
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DPL Reading List – April 27, 2018
Here are some of the articles we’ve come across this week. Tech Watches You for Digital Symptoms of Brain Disorders – “Seeing an opportunity, a number of startups have devised quantitative methods to diagnose diseases or assess mental health while patients complete routine activities, like talking on a smartphone, typing on a keyboard, or scrolling…
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Silly Arguments – Git Branch Strategy
Git is amazing. If you’re not familiar with Git, it is a source control system that actually works. There are many improvements that Git brought to how we manage projects, but a big one is that Git really supports branches. Git will do something no other source control supported (that I had worked with): branching…
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DPL Reading List – April 20, 2018
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. A Simple Tool to Start Making Decisions with the Help of AI – “Better predictions matter when you make decisions in the face of uncertainty, as every business does, constantly. But how do you think through what it would take to…
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Don’t Panic Labs Named A 2018 “Best Place To Work” In Lincoln
Software design and engineering firm Don’t Panic Labs was recognized as one of Lincoln’s Best Places to Work at an award luncheon on April 19th at the Cornhusker Hotel. The company was recognized in the Small company category by Woods & Aitken LLP, the Lincoln Journal Star, and the Lincoln Human Resource Management Association, founders…
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DPL Education – Replace Dependency Inversion
Our Software Design and Development Clinics focus on teaching engineers the real-world development skills that will lead them to be more productive and effective. Doug and I cover several topics during the clinics, but we try to focus on actually doing things. We want students to develop skill and knowledge, which takes both learning and…
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DPL Reading List – April 13, 2018
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. MIT Invents A Way To Turn “Silent Speech” Into Computer Commands – “Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a prototype for a device you wear on your face that can detect tiny shifts that occur when you subvocalize in…
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