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Sticky Sessions for Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancers
One of the great features of Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) – at least in my opinion – is the ability to establish sticky sessions (or session affinity). These allow clients to connect to specific instances in the load-balancer for the life of a session. In typical situations (when you don’t use sticky sessions), calls…
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Russ Guill – Communitarian of the Month
This month we are recognizing technical writer Russ Guill. Here’s what he told us when we asked about his volunteer experiences. Why do you volunteer? I think it’s a responsibility that’s been given to me and to others who have the means (e.g., time, money, motivation) to give back to the community. I think we…
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Thoughts on the Inc Magazine 500 CEO Survey
Hopefully everyone has heard that Nebraska’s own Hudl was named to Inc. Magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. Major props to their team for their extremely hard work and smart choices (and a little bit of luck) during the last seven years. Hopefully, you’ll see us on the list in the next few…
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Nate Lowry – Communitarian of the Month
This month we are recognizing engineer Nate Lowry. Here’s what he told us when we asked about his volunteer experiences. Why do you volunteer? I know that hundreds of people put a lot of time into my future, so I’m just paying it forward to the next generation. What do you enjoy most about volunteering?…
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Broadening My Horizons (or How I Moved Outside the Silo and Learned a New Development Methodology)
I’ve been writing software professionally for ten years. Primarily I’ve worked on the web, but I’ve written everything from line-of-business apps to SQL business reports to CMS-based websites. I’ve always worked in small shops with one to three developers. We’ve always been fairly siloed; each of us writing our own software that we were individually…
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Nick Sherrill – Communitarian of the Month
This month we are recognizing software engineer Nick Sherrill. Here’s what he told us when we asked about his various volunteer experiences. Why do you volunteer? I’ve always wanted to get more involved in my community, which is why several of my volunteer efforts are outside of work-hours. However, Nebraska Global is extremely community-aware, and…
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TeamCity Builds with the Visual Studio 2012 Test Runner
Since we use private GitHub repositories for our code, we needed something to easily manage our builds. When we had a new project recently start up, we decided it was time to take the plunge with TeamCity. However, we found a problem with this: we use fakes for unit testing, something that requires the Visual…
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Awesome Benefits: Beyond Beer and Pinball
Just about every person that tours the Don’t Panic Labs office points out the great perks that jump out at them. The great open space concept, the stocked kitchen, the beer fridge, the pinball machines, etc. While all of these things are great, the greatest benefit we have here at DPL is not as easy…
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Matt Will – Communitarian of the Month
This month we are recognizing software engineer Matt Will. He’s been an active volunteer since his first week at Don’t Panic Labs in January. Here’s what he told us when we asked about his various volunteer experiences. Why do you volunteer? It’s just a really easy way for me to give back to the community….
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Lori McCarthy – Communitarian of the Month
We have a new topic you’ll be seeing on the Don’t Panic Labs blog – Communitarian of the Month. Each month we will recognize a Don’t Panic Labs team member for their “communitarian” work through volunteering. For the inaugural “Communitarian of the Month” post, we are recognizing Project Manager Lori McCarthy. Here’s what she told…
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