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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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ConAgra’s Departure Is Our Opportunity
News of ConAgra moving their corporate headquarters from Omaha to Chicago created quite a stir last week. Not surprisingly, much of the news has been quite negative. And with roughly 1,300 jobs leaving (approximately 1,000 from layoffs and 300 from relocation, according to the Lincoln Journal Star’s October 1st article), it’s likely that many of…
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DPL Reading List – October 2, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Give It Five Minutes (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Dismissing an idea is so easy because it doesn’t involve any work. You can scoff at it. You can ignore it. You can puff some smoke at it….
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Viewing Product and Service Failures as an Opportunity
As a startup community we spend quite a bit of time focusing on processes and techniques for designing products, discovering product/market fit, scoping/building/iterating on MVPs, and ultimately acquiring customers. And rightfully so — these are the fundamental actions of creating sustainable innovation. But there’s one aspect that I feel is overlooked in the early stages:…
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DPL Reading List – September 25, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. A Group Of Wireless Execs Aim To Build A Nationwide Network For The Internet Of Things (Thanks to Chris Apple for recommending this article) – “The idea behind what Ingenu calls The Machine Network is that companies can use the network…
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Creating a Custom Bundler
We decided to use Angular on a public-facing website project for a customer. After we completed a good chunk of the front-end development, I noticed a high number of requests for markup templates were being made when our page loaded. I knew that there had to be a way to reduce this. I remembered from…
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DPL Reading List – September 18, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Escaping Solution-First Development Through Impact Mapping (Thanks to Curtis Johnson for recommending this article) – “Perhaps due to this complexity in software creation, it is incredibly easy for people in the trenches to forget the purpose of the software they are…
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Architect’s Master Class – A Rewarding Experience
When I came to Don’t Panic Labs (and Nebraska Global) in late 2012, I was less than two years out of college in my career as a software engineer. I had heard about not only the exciting projects that were taking place at Don’t Panic Labs, but also the great processes and structure around these…
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DPL Reading List – September 11, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Others, Aim For Royalty-Free Video Codecs – “The issue of patent licenses and royalties continues to plague the video industry. While H.264/AVC video had relatively cheap licensing, it looks as if its successor, H.265/HEVC, is going to be…
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