by Doug Durham | May 16, 2018 | Our Engineering, View From The Booth, Your Vision
If you’re like me, you are probably trying to make some sense of the hype (and hysteria?) around blockchain. While the concept of blockchain is fairly approachable, the applications of this technology (beyond the obvious financial transaction ledgers) is not. I...
by Doug Durham | Jul 14, 2015 | Our Engineering, Software Engineering, View From The Booth
People who know me understand how strongly I feel about experiential learning. I have often talked about how valuable I believe my own personal experiences are and how I feel they impact the way I see and approach problems. I even wrote a blog post talking about how...
by Doug Durham | Mar 12, 2013 | View From The Booth
As we were looking back over the blog’s 2012 stats, I was struck (and humbled, honestly) at how many visitors we’ve received and the attention certain posts had garnered. Our five most popular posts in 2012 were: Ganz’s ClickOnce Publish and Deploy...
by Doug Durham | Sep 6, 2012 | Software Engineering, View From The Booth
When our summer interns started, I sat down with them to cover the nitty gritty details of what, why and how we do things at Don’t Panic Labs. I broke it down into three categories: our goals, what we value and what we expect. In what I envision as a series of...
by Doug Durham | Apr 4, 2012 | View From The Booth
During a recent one-on-one session, I had a discussion with one of our engineers about her role as “build master” for one of our companies. In this role, she was responsible for building the initial project architecture, and setting up and managing most of...
by Doug Durham | Mar 1, 2012 | Software Engineering, View From The Booth
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein In the world of software development, there are always religious arguments being made as to which method is best. Most people agree that Agile-based methods are the most appropriate...