SELECT Build Deploy from TFS 2010

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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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Interns Invade!

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This week marks the largest single influx of personnel the Don’t Panic Labs office has ever experienced. With summer break beginning, we are welcoming 23 student interns from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to start what we expect to be an exciting and fruitful experience for everyone. The students are divided into four separate teams, each…

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March Madness with Infer.NET

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As a “joint venture” (over a few drinks) with our friend from Hudl, Kyle Deterding, we decided to use the Halo-style matchmaking algorithm to predict the NCAA tournament. The algorithm uses Microsoft Reasearch’s Infer.NET framework to handle the math and statistics that go into these models. Kyle wrote a great introduction post explaining it at…

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Custom Plugin Modules

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By far my favorite feature of .NET reflection is the ability to easily implement custom plugin libraries. Whenever you have a nice generic business class that suddenly needs custom functionality for a particular scenario or customer, you usually have three choices: Implement the custom code in the library itself. This is the quick and dirty…

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Welcome!

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Whew! We finally have our website and blog in place. Now we can get down to business. Early on, we knew we wanted to share our experience and thoughts about software engineering, development tips/tricks, and entrepreneurship. We thought it only made sense that we set up a blog so we could regularly share our thoughts…

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