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CodeSOD: Weakly Miles Calculation

The Daily WTF

But the very next line is an incredible case of bad variable names: weekly_miles = self.mileage_per_day. It was then handed off to a developer who implemented exactly that requirement , with no thought at all to how to express this in code so that it would be maintainable. Only one of these can be correct. They had a formula.

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CodeSOD: The Bad Batch

The Daily WTF

Ashton works for a large bank, on an application that handles millions of dollars of transactions. The previous developer left this behind, which has everyone on the team scratching their heads. Advertisement]. if (BatchProcessor.ProcessBatch()) { } else. { }. It seems obvious that the if is unnecessary. Explore how!

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Multilingual Development

The Daily WTF

Lisa 's company needed to add some custom functionality to a third-party application- IniERP- which was made easier by the fact that the company had a SOAP web service to interact with. So fine , and so happy , that other teams heard: "there's a way to integrate your applications into IniERP."

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A guide to modern mobile app development strategy

OTS Solutions

A guide to modern mobile app development strategy. One of the areas that a lot of focus has been laid on is mobile application development. As a CEO, if you want your brand to get closer to your consumer, mobile application development should be part of your short-term or long-term business strategy.

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Nightfall raises cash for its AI that detects sensitive data across apps

TechCrunch

Madan says he and Sathe were inspired to launch Nightfall by Sathe’s personal experiences with data breaches arising from poor “data security hygiene.” This has led to the proliferation of cloud applications that house data that is completely opaque to security teams and increases the attack surface area.”

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO

The hope is that these new analog chips will use dramatically less power making them useful for any of the mobile and distributed applications on machines that aren’t always plugged in. The main constituency: Any developer who will happily trade a bit of precision for a big savings in electricity.

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Landed tackles hospitality employee turnover with end-to-end recruitment matching tool

TechCrunch

advising the executive team on corporate strategy related to workforce management, where she saw firsthand the challenge that labor turnover had for the brand and its operations. million in Series A capital to help restaurants better advertise job openings. Poor onboarding is the enemy of good hiring.