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Back To Basics: Why We Love MSMQ
Note: This post was co-authored by Chad Michel. Clever == Complexity I often say this because I wonder if we would be better served by simply using “old” technology and focusing on being better software designers. I really think we can accomplish this without becoming masters of the latest frameworks (although it is hard to…
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Don’t Panic Labs Expands Project Management Team
Don’t Panic Labs is proud to welcome Krista Odbert to their project management team. Krista joins the Lincoln-based company with over 15 years of experience in software product development. She will be responsible for advocating a lean-thinking product vision and facilitating communication between clients and development teams. “We are very excited to have Krista on…
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DPL Reading List – February 17, 2017
Some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week: What I want other parents to know about women in tech – “But what grabs fewer headlines is the fact that there’s a lot going right with women in tech. Talk to people on the inside and they’ll tell you, if nothing else,…
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Boxing Day (No, not the day after Christmas)
The topic of object boxing and unboxing came up on our development Slack channel recently, so I realized that there might be a lot of developers out there who may not know or understand what boxing and unboxing of values are in C#. In short, boxing is the process where a value type is converted…
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DPL Reading List – February 10, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Study shows 20% more high school girls like computer science after an Hour of Code – “We just released the results of a new study, conducted by our own evaluation team, that sought to measure the student impact of an Hour…
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Funability, Part 5: A Layered Approach to Quality
Note: This post was co-authored by Chad Michel. The rest of this 5-part series can be found here: Part 1 – What and Why Part 2 – Leverage Your Leadership Roles Part 3 – Maximizing Productivity Part 4 – Processes Can Be Fun We’ve now come to the last post in our series on…
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DPL Reading List – February 3, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter – “In recent years a body of research has revealed another, more nuanced benefit of workplace diversity: nonhomogenous teams are simply smarter. Working with people who are different from you may challenge your brain to overcome…
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DPL Reading List – January 27, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Recognizing Traffic Lights With Deep Learning – “I recently won first place in the Nexar Traffic Light Recognition Challenge, computer vision competition organized by a company that’s building an AI dash cam app. In this post, I’ll describe the solution I…
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Funability, Part 4: Processes Can Be Fun
Note: This post was co-authored by Chad Michel. The rest of this 5-part series can be found here: Part 1 – What and Why Part 2 – Leverage Your Leadership Roles Part 3 – Maximizing Productivity Part 5 – A Layered Approach To Quality In the fourth part of our series, we will be…
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DPL Reading List – January 20, 2017
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Four Truths About Input (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Unlike Schrödinger’s cat, our input experiments don’t end. Knowing what input is used one moment tells you nothing about what will be used next.” We’re Thinking About Organizational…
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