Frank May

02/14/2014

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The human heart is confusing and has befuddled countless musicians and poets. I’m here to throw engineering topics shed clarity on the issue and maybe even help someone like Taylor Swift understand a few things about the heart. Engineers lov...

Jaclyn Bauer

02/06/2014

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Ninety-seven DMC employees and their significant others, friends, and family made it (despite sub-zero temperatures) to Crystal Gardens at Navy Pier for the annual DMC Holiday Party. It was a month and a half of epic planning: booking a photogra...

Jessica Mlinaric

02/05/2014

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Each month DMC's Employee Spotlight takes a closer look at a different employee to learn more about the people who make up Team DMC. From using his development skills to do good in El Salvador to DMC’s annual ski trip, discover what Otto...

Ela Kaya

02/03/2014

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Engineers are known for being serious about their work, but we leave plenty of room for laughs. At DMC, we have a fondness for humor of the geeky variety. Our new monthly web feature, DMC Comics, will highlight engineering-minded humor with original ...

Megan Lentine

01/29/2014

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My DMC welcome party was a joint venture with Tim Johnson who started at DMC just before I did. I read about the famed welcome parties before even interviewing at DMC and had been excited to potentially have my own ever since! Tim and I decided on th...

Jordan Homsy-Harris

01/20/2014

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If you have ever worked with SharePoint development, you may have run into a situation where it becomes necessary to test the functionality of a custom email receiver event handler on a document library. This blog will not go into detail on how to cr...

Timothy Johnson

01/13/2014

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ESXi, which is VMWare’s free bare-metal hypervisor, released Version 5.5 in late September 2013. There are some great new features that basically double every configuration maximum from version 5.1. This also includes unlimited physical RAM on ...

Jessica Mlinaric

01/09/2014

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Each month DMC's Employee Spotlight takes a closer look at a different employee to learn more about the people who make up Team DMC. Learn about home brewing from bocks to Belgians and go inside the world of LARP with Grant Anderson ...

Courtney Mitchell

01/08/2014

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When you’re a new employee at DMC, amidst receiving welcome parties, high fives, and access to the most well-stocked kitchen in Chicago, you’ll also receive a copy of StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath. The book details a list of 34 strength...

Lyndon Sapozhnik

01/07/2014

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Temperatures in Chicago plummeted to 16 degrees below zero yesterday, with the wind chill hitting 40 degrees below zero. That’s just a bit chillier than our usual deck activity temperatures, but we thought we’d make the most of the bluste...