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Wouter de Bres in Building Degreed

Jan 5, 2016

Digital Product Design Principles

I wrote down twelve design principles for our team at Degreed to help us make design decisions. I tried to make them practical and clear and hopefully, they are useful for anyone who is working on digital products. If you have any questions or feedback, let me know on…

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Jason Gill in Building Degreed

Jan 29, 2018

8 Things Every Front-End Developer Must Learn

Let’s start off by talking about what this post isn’t: This isn’t a list of…

Joel Lyons in Building Degreed

Oct 21, 2016

Conquering Complicated Pull Requests With Visual Studio

GitHub supports Pull Requests, which allow you to communicate with others about a proposed change before it is merged from one branch into another (why aren’t they called Merge Requests?). A Pull Request can contain multiple changed…

Kat Kennedy in Building Degreed

May 17, 2013

Pay Attention

You just might learn something.

I grew up on a cattle ranch. My days were spent building fences, driving and fixing tractors, and going on cattle drives. My father is truly a great American cowboy.

Joel Lyons in Building Degreed

Nov 29, 2017

Bite-sized Visual Studio Debugging Tips

Visual Studio is a powerful development environment, with so many features it’s easy to…

Joel Lyons in Building Degreed

Jun 10, 2019

ICanHazValue?

Using x != null versus x.HasValue

There seems to be some debate in the .NET community about using nullable value types. Here are some examples of declaring nullable value types.

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