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Funability
Our Friday presentation at Nebraska.Code() was a lot of fun for both Chad and I. We are very passionate about providing environments for software engineers that are more than just fun places to be, but that also make the work itself fun and rewarding. Having a limited amount of time to speak about a topic…
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DPL Reading List – May 27, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. 7 Ways To Stop A Meeting From Dragging On (Thanks to Brian Zimmer for recommending this article) – “If human beings can act so passively when health and safety are on the line, it should be no wonder that we turn…
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DPL Reading List – May 20, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. 4 Millennials Share How To Connect With Anyone (No Matter How Successful They Are) (Thanks to Brian Zimmer for recommending this article) – “Meeting new people is tough. It’s something that many people dread. When some of us attend mixers and…
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DPL Reading List – May 13, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Systems Admins: We Need To Talk (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Admins, lend me your ears. With good, basic, and built-in tools, you can defend against ransomware. With just a few hours of configuration (at most!), you…
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Updating Version Information for Xamarin.iOS builds on Visual Studio Team Services
In last week’s blog post Andrew showed us how to trigger a build from another build. The need to do that was just the first part of a bigger series of events that eventually led to subsequent builds being automatically versioned for us. After the builds were completed, we needed to ship the Xamarin.iOS build…
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DPL Reading List – May 6, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. RAM And Sympathy (Thanks to Santi Murtagh for recommending this article) – “One annoyance with the new release is the increase in CPU capacity for Standard Edition, with no increase in RAM capacity. You can now have up to 24 cores…
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Visual Studio Team Services – Triggering A Build From A Build (Using PowerShell)
As of April 2016, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) does not support triggering a build from another build. This presents a problem if you want your setup to do something like start two builds from a single pull request onto a branch (because VSTS does not support starting multiple builds from one pull request trigger)….
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DPL Reading List – April 29, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “WebFonts are awesome and here to stay. However, if used improperly, they can also impose a huge performance penalty. In this post, I explain how…
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To Sass Or Not To Sass: Thoughts On Preprocessors
As with almost all subjects, there are plenty of opinions about CSS preprocessors. And if the internet is good for anything, it’s posting your opinions. Over the past few years, my opinions of preprocessors have fluctuated between “Whoa this is awesome!” to “They’re good, but…”. I currently sit somewhere in the middle where I feel…
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DPL Reading List – April 22, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Consider Offboarding: Letting Users Leave In Peace (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Obviously there’s no way to understand and quantify the users who simply never log in again, but for those users who are willing to go…
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