by Matt Will | May 30, 2019 | Leadership
As I move on from Don’t Panic Labs, I thought it would be a great time to reflect on the last 6 ½ years. I realized that I haven’t really done any retrospections or reflecting as I have always been looking toward the future, and I think I may have missed out on a few...
by Matt Will | Jul 13, 2017 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
A while back I was reading posts about the top development tools of 2016 and what to watch out for in 2017, and both of them mentioned Yarn Package Manager. I hadn’t heard of it so I read a bit more into it and it sounded very interesting. A couple months later I was...
by Matt Will | Apr 26, 2017 | Software Engineering
It is hard to believe that it was already two weeks ago that Andrew Tarr and I were in Salt Lake City attending ng-conf 2017. I have to say that it was a great conference and I learned even more than I had anticipated in the three days we were there. The format of the...
by Matt Will | Mar 1, 2017 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
A few months back we moved to running a local agent with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) so we didn’t have to worry about the number of minutes we were using each month for our build processes. We had a build server for TeamCity that was sitting idle most of the...
by Matt Will | Feb 15, 2017 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
The topic of object boxing and unboxing came up on our development Slack channel recently, so I realized that there might be a lot of developers out there who may not know or understand what boxing and unboxing of values are in C#. In short, boxing is the process...