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DPL Reading List – July 28, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. How Successful People Spend Their Weekends – “Successful people know the importance of shifting gears on the weekend to relaxing and rejuvenating activities.” Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction – “Exploring fictional futures frees our thinking from false…
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Mapbox – Visualizing Workout Activities
Creating a custom map for your data has never been easier with tools such as Mapbox. Within minutes you can have your data uploaded and visualized in a stylized map ready to be consumed on the web or by a mobile app. Mapbox Studio is a one-stop shop for uploading data, creating a layer, styling…
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Useful Textbooks from a Computer Science Degree
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Cassey’s Thoughts, her personal blog. In my time as an undergraduate studying Computer Science, I came across several textbooks that were really useful. (This may be a surprise to you; it was to me when I finally started finding them.) I share them here for others who…
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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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