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DPL Reading List – November 13, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Here’s Why Half Your Employees Will Be Gone In Less Than A Year (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Do the people who work for you like their jobs? If you’re like most employers, the answer is, absolutely…
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DPL Reading List – November 6, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Busy, But Not Productive (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Progress at a startup is ultimately measured not by hours but by risk. In the early days of a company, everything is uncertain and the risk is extraordinary….
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Cleaning up the dirtyPath
One of our recent projects involved creating Excel functionality inside a custom application we built for a client. After a few iterations where we tried to emulate most of the basic features of Excel (including enabling the pasting of tables through a lot of parsing and basic table functionalities), it became clear that we would…
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DPL Reading List – October 30, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. The One Thing Every Programmer Should Do To Succeed In The Tech Industry, According To An Ex-Microsoft Engineer (Thanks to Curtis Johnson for recommending this article) – “’I would advise folks in software to do one thing, and that’s write,’ he…
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How I Approached Unit Testing
A few months back I submitted an idea for a presentation to a developer conference. It was rejected. I’m not alone. We all have, at some point, been turned down. Maybe our ideas were not as jaw-dropping or life-changing but that’s no reason to just let those ideas never see the light of day. We…
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DPL Reading List – October 23, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Nine Common Things That Start-up Founders Tend To Underestimate Or Overestimate – “When you’re in the midst of building a company, it’s hard to fully assess the significance of various activities and decisions- particularly for first-time entrepreneurs who don’t yet have…
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Helpful Functionality with AWS’s Auto Scaling
On Beehive, we have been taking advantage of Amazon’s Auto Scaling functionality to control the number of instances we are running behind load balancers. The other day we came across a use-case where we needed to set up a new load balancer in order to host a separate hostname that had its own unique certificate…
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DPL Reading List – October 16, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. How A Two-Day Sprint Moved An Agency Twenty Years Forward (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “For many of us in the design and software development profession, building a working prototype is not a big deal. For the…
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Authenticating With A Custom Claims-Based Identity
In one of our recent projects, we were managing data back and forth between two websites: one set up for an intranet with Active Directory authentication and the other set up to face external traffic with Identity authentication. In the project, a need arose to authenticate a user from the Active Directory intranet site on…
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DPL Reading List – October 9, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. The Illusion Of Time (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Time is the most valuable and limited resource we have. That’s why good design is about saving time.” The Internet’s Vanishing Point? – “Today we’re living in the…
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