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DPL Reading List – February 26, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Getting Ready For HTTP/2: A Guide For Web Designers And Developers (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the protocol that governs the connection between your server and the browsers of your website’s…
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DPL Reading List – February 19, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. A Minimum Viable Product Is Not A Product, It’s A Process (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “When you build a product, you make many assumptions. You assume you know what users are looking for, how the design…
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Internal Tools Are The Worst
One of the first pieces of career advice I received when looking for an internship in software development was to never, ever take an internship where the project is for internal use only. The conventional wisdom on this is so strong that companies often tout the lack of internal projects as a highlight of their…
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DPL Reading List – February 12, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Always Believe You’re Good Enough (Thanks to Brian Zimmer for recommending this article) – “I tell every entrepreneur that I advise the same thing. I tell them to always believe they’re good enough, because the alternative will prevent them from ever…
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DPL Reading List – February 5, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. What Having A “Growth Mindset” Actually Means – “In the wake of these findings, “growth mindset” has become a buzzword in many major companies, even working its way into their mission statements. But when I probe, I often discover that people’s…
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Choosing a Mocking Framework
As we neared the end of our BizSpark license term here at Don’t Panic Labs, we had to make some big choices when it came to licensing Visual Studio. Through BizSpark we were using Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate, which gave us access to a lot of different features. One of which, Microsoft Fakes, was heavily…
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DPL Reading List – January 29, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Microsoft Open Sources Its Artificial Brain to One-Up Google – “The company has open sourced the artificial intelligence framework it uses to power speech recognition in its Cortana digital assistant and Skype Translate applications. This means that anyone in the world…
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More Than Fun And Games
On our blog we usually write about what we’re doing around the office. It’s easy because that’s what comes to our minds while we’re in the office. But what about our endeavors outside the office? How do our hobbies and extracurricular activities affect or complement what we do at Don’t Panic Labs? In my estimation,…
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DPL Reading List – January 22, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Stop Gratuitous UI Animation – “It’s only natural that designers initially abuse new capabilities before a more sophisticated design language evolves. Anyone who designed for the screen in the late 90s and 2000s (web and CD-ROM) will remember incredibly overwrought designs…
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DPL Reading List – January 15, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. There Is Something Extraordinary Happening In The World – “A few months ago I freed myself from standard-procedure society, I broke the chains of fear that kept me locked up into the system. Since then, I see the world from a…
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