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DPL Reading List – May 12, 2017

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Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Picasso’s Napkin: The Myth of the Overnight Success – “By understanding that overnight success is something that happens when you collect small, invisible victories, we have a new “model” for how to live our life…” Chemistry, not Culture – “And while companies…

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Tools are Just Part of the Story

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We consider ourselves a .NET shop. Our tools are usually Visual Studio, C#, MSSQL Server, IIS/Azure, ASP.NET MVC, EntityFramework, etc. We have an incredible amount of institutional knowledge of these technologies. We’ve found the pain points. We’ve developed work arounds. We have best-practices. We have thousands of lines of code to use as examples. We…

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Just Roll With It: An Unconventional Intern Story

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I have been an intern at Nebraska Global/Don’t Panic Labs since January of 2016. I work part time during the school year, and I worked full time at Nebraska Global last summer. I have been part of several different departments, and I am not even sure how to describe my job further than “intern”. I…

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DPL Reading List – May 5, 2017

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Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Performing a Project Premortem – “Although many project teams engage in prelaunch risk analysis, the premortem’s prospective hindsight approach offers benefits that other methods don’t. Indeed, the premortem doesn’t just help teams to identify potential problems early on. It also reduces…

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Don’t Be So Business

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“Business is business and business must grow…” – The Lorax (Dr. Seuss) We all take business so serious. We focus on little numbers. We get all obtuse over odd details. People often want to take the fun out of work. In this blog post I am going to argue that by focusing on just three…

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DPL Reading List – April 28, 2017

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Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Responding to Feedback You Disagree With – “Receiving feedback well doesn’t mean you have to take the feedback. Being good at receiving feedback means just that: that you receive it. That you hear it. That you work to understand it. That…

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Don’t Panic Labs Named A “Best Place To Work” In Lincoln

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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 27th 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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Lab Reaction: Connected cows: An actually useful example of the Internet of Things (seriously)

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A minor confession that’ll probably not come as a surprise to those that know me best. I’m addicted to the odd and/or extraordinary ways people have chosen to use IoT implementations. So, when I saw a startup with the name of Moocall and that it was tagged under IoT, how could I possibly not love…

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A Look Back at ng-conf 2017

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It is hard to believe that it was already two weeks ago that Andrew Tarr and I were in Salt Lake City attending ng-conf 2017. I have to say that it was a great conference and I learned even more than I had anticipated in the three days we were there. The format of the…

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Helpful Sales & Marketing That’s Actually Helpful

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It’s easy to have a negative reaction when we hear the words “marketing” and “sales”. But why does this happen? We’ve all bought a product that didn’t live up to the hype or our expectations; were annoyed by the pushy sales-guy trying to earn a commission; or were perplexed by the maddening string of “sales”,…

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