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DPL Reading List – May 22, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Get People to Listen to You When You’re Not Seen as an Expert (Thanks to Brian Zimmer for suggesting this article) – “If you’re not yet considered an expert, it’s harder to get your ideas noticed — but not impossible. With…
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Taking on a BIG Storage Challenge
As IT Manager of Nebraska Global (including Don’t Panic Labs), I – along with Ted Larsen who is the other half of our entire IT department – face unique technology challenges every day. Sometimes they’re relatively simple, like recovering data after a hard drive failure. Sometimes they require a fair amount of physical agility, like…
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DPL Reading List – May 15, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. More Weight Doesn’t Mean More Wait (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Formerly, much of the focus in web performance was concerned with optimizing assets like images and fonts, which does make for a shorter overall page load…
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Big Omaha Is Dead…Long Live Big Omaha
I have been to every Big Omaha since its debut in 2009. I do not think that this means very much other than I have the ability to contextualize this year’s event through the lens of time. This was not the best Big Omaha, but it also was not the worst. The speakers were interesting…
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DPL Reading List – May 8, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Microsoft has a New Plan to Capitalize on Apple and Google’s Success – “At Microsoft’s developer conference today in San Francisco, the company made a proposition that mobile app makers might find hard to refuse: Reuse your existing code written for…
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Microsoft on Twitter
We’re pretty big Microsoft fans. This means we have to keep up with what’s new and exciting, along with what people are talking about. Here is our top 20 list of people we follow on Twitter for subjects in and around Microsoft. Satya Nadella – @satyanadella – Microsoft CEO Scott Guthrie – @scottgu – Microsoft…
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DPL Reading List – May 1, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. The Redesign of the Design Process (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Today, the best designs aren’t coming from a single designer who somehow produces an amazing solution. The best designs are coming from teams that work together…
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Another Transition Story: From Desktop to Surface Pro 3
Last week we read Curtis’s story of how he transitioned from a desktop Windows machine to a MacBook Pro running Windows in Parallels 10. This week, I’m sharing my story of moving from a similar desktop machine to a Microsoft Surface Pro 3. Choosing the Hardware When it came time for me to choose the…
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Infotec 2015 Recap
Our team made the drive up to Omaha this week to exhibit and present at Infotec 2015. As we continue to expand, we found this conference to be a great opportunity to make new connections and share some of what we’ve learned while building software companies and products over the past years. We were very…
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DPL Reading List – April 24, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. The Full Stack Employee – “Just as there are full-stack engineers and full-stack startups, the full-stack employee has a powerful combination of skills that make them incredibly valuable. They are adept at navigating the rapidly evolving and shifting technological landscape. They…
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