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DPL Reading List – August 7, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Claire Lew at Big Omaha: “What goes unsaid hurts your company the most” (Thanks to Brian Zimmer for recommending this) – “Studies have shown that futility is 1.8 more times more powerful an obstacle to feedback than fear… The reason why…
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GitHub Electron Tutorial: Using Electron-Boilerplate
GitHub’s Electron framework allows you to leverage the best of web technologies in a cross-platform desktop application. This tutorial shows you how to build your first Electron app using szwacz/electron-boilerplate. A few prerequisites: Git (I use the Git Shell packaged with GitHub for Windows) Node.js NSIS, if you are on Windows and want to build…
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DPL Reading List – July 31, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Why the Great Glitch of July 8th Should Scare You (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “The big problem we face isn’t coordinated cyber-terrorism, it’s that software sucks. Software sucks for many reasons, all of which go deep,…
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2015 Summer Interns: Learning Through Experience
Doug’s post from a couple weeks ago reminded me of one of the most interesting philosophies that I have seen to fruition during my time at Don’t Panic Labs. While we are always interested in engineers with a considerable amount of experience, we especially look for bright, young engineers that, regardless of inexperience, exhibit an…
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DPL Reading List – July 24, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. The Anatomy of the Credit Card Form (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Over the past 20 years, we’ve built a mental model of paying online: I pull out a credit card from my wallet, enter the card…
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Why I’m Betting On Windows Phone
I fell for Windows Phone while attending Microsoft MIX 2010. The OS had a fresh, albeit flat, minimalistic interface. I loved the vision of a common design pattern shared between the Windows Phone OS and its apps. And appealing to my logical side, completing tasks was incredibly efficient and streamlined. As one of the few…
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DPL Reading List – July 17, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Making Companies Competitive By Expanding Design’s Role (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “It’s not good enough to delight your direct customers. You have to delight all the customers and employees down the supply chain. Your methods for…
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The Importance of Context in Engineering
People who know me understand how strongly I feel about experiential learning. I have often talked about how valuable I believe my own personal experiences are and how I feel they impact the way I see and approach problems. I even wrote a blog post talking about how challenging it can be to work with…
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DPL Reading List – July 10, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. 5 Facets of the Coming Internet of Things Boom – “Predictions that the Internet of Things (IoT) will usher in a new era of prosperity get some backing in a new study by consulting firm McKinsey & Company. The study estimates…
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Ensuring Software Quality with a Layered Approach
The Beehive team (on which I work), as well as all the Nebraska Global companies, have made layered processes and techniques part of our day-to-day operations to ensure the quality of the software we are creating. It is very easy to make a statement like “by relying on more than one testing technique, we will…
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