by Chris Niemann | Sep 14, 2016 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
For one of my recent projects I needed to set up Continuous Integration from scratch on a server. Having never done this before I found myself assembling all the required components, installing them, and configuring them (and struggling now and then through some of...
by Andrew Tarr | May 3, 2016 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
As of April 2016, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) does not support triggering a build from another build. This presents a problem if you want your setup to do something like start two builds from a single pull request onto a branch (because VSTS does not support...
by Nathan Wilkinson | Mar 24, 2016 | Tools
For about the last month I’ve had the opportunity to work on a couple of different projects that heavily use Microsoft Azure. This is my first significant exposure to Azure and its services and over this last month I’ve experienced both the good and the bad. I wanted...
by Matt Will | Feb 3, 2016 | .NET Development, Tools
As we neared the end of our BizSpark license term here at Don’t Panic Labs, we had to make some big choices when it came to licensing Visual Studio. Through BizSpark we were using Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate, which gave us access to a lot of different features. One of...
by Russ Guill | Jan 27, 2016 | Leadership, Tools
On our blog we usually write about what we’re doing around the office. It’s easy because that’s what comes to our minds while we’re in the office. But what about our endeavors outside the office? How do our hobbies and extracurricular activities affect or complement...
by Brian Zimmer | Dec 31, 2015 | Development Methodologies & Best Practices, Software Development Tips & Tricks, Software Engineering, Tools
As another year winds down, it’s only natural to look back at what we’ve accomplished. Just one part of what we do is share on our blog what we have learned and experienced. Since we’re not interested in keeping all of that just for ourselves, we hope the blog is a...
