This month we are recognizing software engineer Matt Will. He's been an active volunteer since his first week at Don't Panic Labs in January. Here's what he told us when we asked about his various volunteer experiences. More...

We have a new topic you'll be seeing on the Don’t Panic Labs blog – Communitarian of the Month. Each month we will recognize a Don't Panic Labs team member for their “communitarian” work through volunteering. For the inaugural “Communitarian of the Month” post, we are recognizing Project Manager Lori McCarthy. Here's what she told us when we asked about the wheres, whys, and whats of her volunteer experiences.More...

In March, the EliteForm team celebrated a major milestone: 500,000 reps tracked by our PowerTracker system. More...

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:More...

Form posts are a thing of the past. Most new interactive HTML5-Web 2.0-buzzword web apps are trending towards a one-page UI with Ajax requests used to pull and push data dynamically.More...

I recently had a problem with my controller inconsistently picking up a decimal value in my model. Here's what the Action looked like:More...

While working on a project that involved MVC Web API, I ran into a strange issue. I created my controller, registered my routes and decorated my methods with "[HttpPost]", but the application would still not allow me to do POST requests to my method (HTTP 405 – Method not allowed. The requested resource does not support http method 'POST'.).More...

When we develop for Windows, we use a debugger. So why does so much of our web development follow the code refresh ”Did it work?” progression? All modern web browsers have some sort of web development tools. These can be used to check your CSS, manually manipulate Document Object Model (DOM) elements, and even debug your JavaScript. More...

Neema Bahramzad is a senior Computer Engineering major at the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and was one of our 2012 summer interns. He is also co-founder, along with Caitlin Bales, of Locabal – of a new company whose mission is to connect producers of handcrafted items with buyers locally and globally. Here he shares his experience with Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk solution.More...

We recently completed a web project for a client where videos were an integral part of the site. When the client came to us, they had already vetted their design ideas and had an outside firm create a final site design. Nearly every page of the site was to have a video on it that would help inform and guide the user. After reviewing the designs with the client, we decided to create an HTML5 site as a single-page implementation where we would swap content in and out. Having settled on HTML5, we thought the videos would be easy to implement since we could leverage the new HTML5 video tag. Never having done any HTML5 video work before, we were surprised when things didn’t work out of the box as expected. More...