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DPL Reading List – July 21, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Three Lessons On Innovation I Learned During My 12 Years At Apple – “Companies can’t afford to stay stagnant, and that means getting better at recognizing and practicing innovation. We won’t drive the next revolution without it.” The Loneliness of an Entrepreneur…
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Custom Configuration Sections
AppSettings in app.config is great for making your app configurable without having to recompile it. You specify a key to get a value to avoid hardcoding configurations. There are two advantages to creating your own custom configuration over basic appSettings: Enumerate a list of configurations without having to hardcode each key in your code. Store…
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Lab Reaction: What UX Designers Can Learn From IKEA
After designing interfaces for the last ten years, I’ve caught myself on many occasions forgetting there is a world of design outside the computer. It’s easy to stay deep in the inspiration of your industry. While it is good to keep up on developing trends, it’s also important to widen your vision and draw from…
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DPL Reading List – July 14, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Burnout at Work Isn’t Just About Exhaustion. It’s Also About Loneliness – “Recent studies estimate that loneliness costs employers in the UK billions of dollars each year and employee burnout costs the U.S. health care system hundreds of billions of dollars…
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Knitting Your Web Code Together in a New Way: Why I Started Using Yarn
A while back I was reading posts about the top development tools of 2016 and what to watch out for in 2017, and both of them mentioned Yarn Package Manager. I hadn’t heard of it so I read a bit more into it and it sounded very interesting. A couple months later I was getting…
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Dynamically Resizing UITableViewCells in Xamarin.iOS
I recently needed to implement a UI that required a UITableViewCell to have an expandable “notes” fields within it, with the expansion triggered by a button within the cell itself. Getting this to work was a little tricky. So if you find yourself in this situation, I hope you can get some ideas from me,…
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DPL Reading List – July 7, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. What’s Your Best Innovation Bet? – “New product ideas are not the only—or even the most important—outcome of this exercise. Perhaps more valuable is the big-picture perspective it can give managers—shedding new light on market dynamics and the larger-scale or longer-term…
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Don’t Panic Labs and AIM Interface School Announce Partnership to Expand Software Education
Lincoln-based software design and development company Don’t Panic Labs and Omaha-based AIM Interface School are proud to announce a partnership to provide continuing education for professional software developers in the Omaha area. Through this partnership, AIM Interface School and Don’t Panic Labs will begin offering advanced software engineering training to corporations seeking to upskill existing…
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CSS Grid Layout: The Future is Now
Over the history of the web, there have been a number of different ways in which we laid out content. From the earliest days when we had plain ol’ markup, through the HTML tables and spacer gif era, past the float and clearfixes, and up to today where we can use flexbox and get support…
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DPL Reading List – June 30, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Creating Magic: A Conversation with Original iPhone Engineers & Software Team Lead Scott Forstall – “Much of the criticism missed the big picture, said Scott Herz, one of the original software designers. “You can get spun up over those kind of problems…
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