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DPL Reading List – March 9, 2018

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Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. 4 Ways to Build an Innovative Team – “So the simplest answer is that you need to start by empowering the people already in your organization. But to do that, you need to take responsibility for creating an environment in which…

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DPL Education – Sales Tax Activity

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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 – March 2, 2018

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Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Your Strategy Should Be a Hypothesis You Constantly Adjust – “What is new is the idea that closing the gap between strategy and execution may not be about better execution after all, but rather about better learning – about more dialogue…

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Database Change Control, Part 3

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In my previous posts, I have covered two forms of database change control. Both of those focused on taking some sort of schema and deploying it. But in this post, I am changing focus to something that stores the deltas and reapplies them. Both DbUp and Code-First Migrations will basically play a continual list of…

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DPL Reading List – February 23, 2018

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Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Google Thinks The Future Of The Web Is . . . Email – “Usually this sort of insider baseball development standard stuff isn’t worth writing about, but AMP for Email comes at a particularly salient time. The opaque algorithms of Twitter,…

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Database Change Control, Part 2

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Code-First is a great way to stand up a data access layer quickly and with minimal pain. Code-First really excels because it allows you to easily blow away your schema. But Code-First isn’t a great scheme if you want to do a lot of stored procedures, or if your system contains a lot of views….

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DPL Reading List – February 16, 2018

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Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Why Every Company Should Consider Creating a “Cyber No-Fly List” – “A cyber no-fly list can use deeper context and intelligence about digital traffic, asking, for example, “Is this traffic from a known malicious actor?” If so, the company should probably…

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Database Change Control, Part 1

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Source control is a foundational piece of any software development process. If you are not doing source control, you are doing it wrong. You will feel some pain someday, probably some bad pain. Source control is useful for everything, not just your C# code but also your databases. Why should your database code be any…

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DPL Reading List – February 9, 2018

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Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles’s Post-Game Interview Is a Powerful Lesson in Leadership – “[Foles] knew that great teams aren’t only about who’s on your team, but about how the team works together. By showing humility, setting the example, and praising…

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Choosing a UI Design Tool: Adobe XD

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Ever since leaving my Mac (and my love affair with Sketch) and switching to a Surface Book 2, Adobe XD has been my go-to tool for wireframing and interactive prototyping. XD is currently Adobe’s only user experience design software. It supports light vector design, wireframing, and creating interactive click-through prototypes. I adopted Adobe XD during…

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