by Andy Unterseher | Apr 18, 2019 | Our Engineering, Software Development Tips & Tricks
We recently deployed a new feature to a website running in Azure App Services to combine multiple files uploaded by users into a single large ZIP file. After deploying to production, we started seeing “Out of Memory” exceptions for one of our users. Our first instinct... 
by Andy Unterseher | Mar 28, 2019 | Our Engineering, Software Development Tips & Tricks
In preparation for an upcoming user group presentation about the benefits of the Service Fabric programming model, I needed to stand up a new cluster in Azure and deploy our demo application to it. Microsoft provides lots of great articles to help with this task, but... 
by Andy Unterseher | Sep 19, 2017 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
The VSTS task board is a great way for developers and project managers to see development tasks in the current iteration. But we like to also see which tasks have been submitted and are awaiting a pull request. Here is how we customize our task board to add an... 
by Andy Unterseher | Jun 15, 2017 | Development Methodologies & Best Practices, Software Development Tips & Tricks
At Don’t Panic Labs, we love tools that help us ensure we are writing quality code and following our development patterns and practices. We are using Visual Studio Online for many of our current projects and we have found some very useful features for protecting the... by Andy Unterseher | Jun 13, 2013 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Software Engineering
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...