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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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Getting SSL Certificates on AWS Elastic Load Balancers in Windows
Author’s note: This article was put together with help from these posts: ServerFault post, another ServerFault post, Anu Chandy post. They have great info, but lacked a full step-by-step explanation. The prompt from AWS for uploading a new SSL certificate can be a little scary: Here are some steps that can help you get an…
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DPL Reading List – September 4, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Technology Has Created More Jobs Than It Has Destroyed, Says 140 Years Of Data – “In the 1800s it was the Luddites smashing weaving machines. These days retail staff worry about automatic checkouts. Sooner or later taxi drivers will be fretting…
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