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Welcome to Don’t Panic Labs
Don’t Panic Labs is not your traditional work environment. You’re given a lot of freedom, but you’re also given a lot of responsibility, and that responsibility pretty much starts your first day in the office. No break-in periods here. Obviously this can sometimes be a bit overwhelming for the new employee. Being one of the…
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Isolating 32-bit COM Components on 64-bit Build Servers
A few weeks back while getting Mako XRM ready for launch, I was working through an issue involving ClickOnce build and deployment. I was attempting to isolate a 32-bit COM component so it would not need to be registered on every end-user’s computer upon ClickOnce install. MSDN has a decent article describing the process (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165432(v=vs.80).aspx)…
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Book Review: Code by Charles Petzold
This summer we hosted 23 interns at the Don’t Panic Labs office. These interns were placed into four separate teams, with each team tasked to develop a product based around a specific need. Spencer Farley, who was a member of the Carnac team and is now a member of the Don’t Panic Labs team, shares…
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My Battle with…
This summer we are hosting 23 interns at the Don’t Panic Labs office. These interns are placed into four separate teams, with each team tasked to develop a product based around a specific need. Alec Johnston, a member of the Planhandler team, wrote this internal blog post based on his experiences in developing a product…
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Clarke’s Third Law
This summer we are hosting 23 interns at the Don’t Panic Labs office. These interns are placed into four separate teams, with each team tasked to develop a product based around a specific need. Megan Vokal, a member of the GeekSeeQ team, wrote this internal blog post based on her experiences in developing a product…
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Moving on with the Microsoft Kinect SDK
This summer we are hosting 23 interns at the Don’t Panic Labs office. These interns are placed into four separate teams, with each team tasked to develop a product based around a specific need. Andrew Gaspar, a member of the Moriarty team, wrote this internal blog post based on his experiences in developing a product…
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Kill Your Darlings
This summer we are hosting 23 interns at the Don’t Panic Labs office. These interns are placed into four separate teams, with each team tasked to develop a product based around a specific need. Chris Johnson, a member of the Parking Carnac team, wrote this internal blog post based on his experiences in developing a…
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ASP.Net Page Properties
Below is an example of how I like to use properties to access HTML items from code-behind. It allows you to have strongly-typed objects and a single point of access to HTML items.
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Dodgeball and Coding: More Alike Than You Think
Recently, one of our intern teams and two full-timers got to hop down to the Boys & Girls Club for some volunteering. It wasn’t your usual volunteer outing; they got to play dodgeball with the kids! The teams ended up being the young kids vs. the “old folks”, but it was a surprisingly even match….
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SELECT Build Deploy from TFS 2010
TFS has always provided great ways to build your projects and solutions: Builds are easily started and reviewed by different members on the team Builds are automatically versioned and backed up Work items and bugs can be associated with individual builds Deploying a web application is a slightly tricky matter. These apps are easily deployed…
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