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DPL Reading List – December 8, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. 5 amazing books I read this year – “Reading is my favorite way to indulge my curiosity. Although I’m lucky that I get to meet with a lot of interesting people and visit fascinating places through my work, I still think…
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A Website Without Servers – Using Azure Functions: Part 8
Azure Functions fit a nice slot: for times when you don’t want to deploy much but want a little bit of logic in the cloud. There’s another feature that really gives Azure Functions some legs: you can proxy request to blob storage. This might not seem like a big deal, but it is a game…
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The Mechanical Turk (The Love Test for Entrepreneurs)
For the last couple of years, I have spent a significant amount of time talking to innovators both independent (entrepreneurs) and inside of organizations (intrapreneurs?). The conversations generally focus on a variation of these familiar themes: Uber for … Ebay for … Facebook for … Computer vision to … Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning to…
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DPL Reading List – December 1, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. How Coca-Cola, Netflix, and Amazon Learn from Failure – “If you’re not prepared to fail, you’re not prepared to learn. And unless people and organizations manage to keep learning as fast as the world is changing, they’ll never keep growing and…
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Whatever Bill Has…The Results
Last week we launched the “Whatever Bill Has” app, which I built as a demonstration of Azure Functions. This app is basically Build-A-Bear, but with Bill Udell. Users had eight possible options: four shirts and two pants. Bill was gracious enough to provide us with some great shirt and pants options. He also chose a…
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DPL Reading List – November 24, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. How Creating An Entrepreneurship Function Can Help Sustain Corporate Innovation – “Innovation can no longer be seen as a novelty sideshow. It is the work of every CEO and their top executive team to lead their companies in the creation of…
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Whatever Bill Has
Those of us who are engineers know we aren’t looked up to for our fashion sense. We tend to be t-shirt and jeans people, or sometimes t-shirt and sweatpants people. Now this isn’t a sign of anything wrong, but I often feel engineers are just focusing a little too much on the function. I think…
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DPL Reading List – November 17, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Why IBM Created Its Own Typeface After A Century Without One – “Last week, the company finally debuted its own typeface: IBM Plex, which is designed to be used almost everywhere letters appear in the IBM universe. Think of it as…
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Securing the Docker API on Windows
As it is with most things Docker, the majority of the tutorials and instructions on securing the Docker API endpoints use Linux-based examples. Being new to both the Docker and the Linux world made this process a little more frustrating than I expected. However, I made my way through it and documented my journey which…
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Agile Is Not A Silver Bullet, Part 2
In my first post, I wrote about the responsibilities, goals, and struggles that development teams are facing today. In this post, I am covering our experiences and how we must take a bigger picture look at how we’re working in a world of constantly changing requirements. Our Experience So, I seemed to paint a lot…
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