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Project Management – How We Do It
Project management is how software companies manage their various overlapping development efforts while building great software. Likewise, a project manager oversees those efforts. Taking notes, tracking progress, recording milestones, and holding meetings are just a few tasks project managers handle every day. At Don’t Panic Labs, that’s been my role for nearly five years and…
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Nebraska Code Follow-up
We were overwhelmed by the attendance and response to the presentation we gave at the 2015 Nebraska Code conference on how we approach product development at Nebraska Global / Don’t Panic Labs. It was great to have so many people interested in what we do and how we do it. Afterwards, we were asked by…
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Thoughts on ‘Generation STEM’ from the Girl Scout Research Institute
The STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields are important. One of the saddest realities of our field is the huge drop in the percentage of women in computer science over the past few decades. The Girl Scouts Research Institute took a good look at why that’s happening and how to change it. (PDF) After surveying…
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Rounded Corners with Transparent Backgrounds in WPF
Rounded corners for a WPF app can give it an impressive look. But problems can arise when you don’t have attributes on the window set up quite right. For example, we have a white background that’s killing the corner roundness. Luckily there’s an easy way to get rid of that. First, set the AllowsTransparency property…
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Andy Unterseher – Communitarian of the Month
This month we are recognizing engineer Andy Unterseher. Here’s what he told us when we asked about his volunteer experiences. Why do you volunteer? I think volunteering is great in all aspects. It’s great for our company because it helps bring people together and it gives people common challenges to solve together outside of the…
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The Odd-yssey: My Epic Journey Chasing Down Webpage Performance Issues
No debugging adventure is boring. As a case in point, I was recently trying to nail down the cause of some weird behavior experienced by a specific customer with a specific setup on a specific mobile device running EliteForm’s Paperless application. The majority of the work on Paperless was completed by our student-lead Design Studio…
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Branden Barber – Communitarian of the Month
This month we are recognizing engineer Branden Barber. Here’s what he told us when we asked about his volunteer experiences. We should also note that Branden’s been volunteering with Don’t Panic Labs even before he was a full-time employee. Here’s a video that includes Branden spending time at the Boys & Girls Club as an…
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You Can Support Teaching Kids to Code
We put a lot of time and effort into teaching 3rd-5th graders in Lincoln how to code through Community Learning Centers (CLC). They’re using Scratch, ROBOTS, and being extra creative while learning teamwork and problem-solving skills. We want to expand this program to even more schools, but we need your help. Give to Lincoln Day…
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Avery Klein – Communitarian of the Month
This month we are recognizing Quality Assurance Engineer Avery Klein. Here’s what he told us when we asked about his volunteer experiences. Why do you volunteer? I think the obvious answer is knowing you are helping others and the joy it brings them. While that is very true, and although it sounds selfish, I do…
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Learning to Code
A lot of people have been asking recently, “How do I get into coding?” We happen to really, really love coding and are happy to share what we know. We realize that everyone’s journey is different and emphasize that there certainly is no silver bullet that guarantees success. With that in mind, we assembled some…
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