February, 2018

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UI and End-to-End tests

Martin Fowler

The whole point of the test pyramid is to remind us that broad scope tests should be rare, since they are usually expensive and slow. Rareness isn't the same as absence, so now Ham takes a look at role of UI tests and end-to-end testing in general.

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Georgia bill could stifle the state’s booming cybersecurity community

The Parallax

A new bill winding its way through the Georgia state senate has cybersecurity experts on alert. As Senate Bill 315 is currently written, academics and independent security researchers alike could be subject to prosecution in Georgia alongside malicious hackers. The two-page bill aims to amend legislation governing computer crimes in the Peach State to criminalize “unauthorized computer access.

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GraphQL with Node.js and Mongoose/MongoDB

NeverFriday

In March 2016, as part of an exploratory project, I worked on an example implementation of GraphQL using MongoDB and Node.js: graphql-server. While at the time, the company decided not to go with GraphQL, it was only a year later that they revisited the idea and started to make it part of their core technology strategy (they had multiple mobile apps and 3rd party clients that needed a more performant interface than the REST API, which had some performance issues).

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Managing Remote Teams: How to Increase Engagement and Performance

Let's Grow Leaders

Managing Remote Teams: Relationships First Dear Karin and David, Do you have any best practices for managing remote teams? I’m finding it hard to build genuine connection and to stay on top of performance when the team is so dispersed. Signed, On […]. The post Managing Remote Teams: How to Increase Engagement and Performance appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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What Organizations Look For in a Change Management Professional

Change Starts Here

In my quest to equip people to influence change at work, I strive to stay up to date on what organizations expect from their change managers. I recently searched LinkedIn for jobs with the keywords “change management,” within a worldwide search area. While there are a ton of consulting positions open, I pulled the descriptions […].

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Contract Tests Ensure Faithful Doubles

Martin Fowler

Our approach to integration testing avoids hitting real services in order to make testing easier and faster. But then a question rears up - how do we know the test doubles for our integration tests are true doubles of the collaborating service? Ham answers this question by discussing Contract Tests and showing the role they play in his example application.

Testing 279
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Cybersecurity Style Guide helps you write like a hacker

The Parallax

Unpickling, BeEF hooking, hamburger button, and sticky cookies may sound like the latest items on a hipster hangout menu to join $12 avocado toast , but they’re actually all terms that appear in the first major style guide edited by linguists for hackers. The Bishop Fox Cybersecurity Style Guide , published last week , was developed over the last year and a half to fill a vacuum, says its lead editor, Brianne Hughes.

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How to Conduct Effective UX Research – A Guide

Toptal

Effective user research doesn’t have to cost a fortune. In fact, there are many low-cost methods available to designers, all of which will put a designer on the road to designing better products.

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One Obvious Secret to Retaining High Performers

Let's Grow Leaders

Recently, I received an incredibly strong message about retaining high performers. The message came from Jennifer, a former store manager at a national women’s clothing chain. Jennifer is outgoing, incredibly gifted at making customers feel comfortable, and was considered a “high-potential” by […]. The post One Obvious Secret to Retaining High Performers appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Is Disorganization Making You Ill?

Women on Business

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Has Your Boss Set You Up To Succeed or Fail?

Scott Berkun

On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive ). Yes I know it’s Thursday, but better late than never. Here’s this week’s question: I have a new boss who I don’t trust yet. How can I make sure they’re looking out for me? The term “set up to succeed” means a person has been given most of what they need to do their job well.

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Integration Tests in the Pyramid

Martin Fowler

People find the notion of integration tests confusing, since they are ill-defined even by the standards of testing terminology. So they are a great topic for Ham's example application and explanation.

Testing 279
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Web’s most annoying ads no longer welcome in Chrome

The Parallax

Search may be what Google is known for, but advertising has long been how the company makes billions of dollars. So it may strike some consumers as odd that Google just introduced a new feature in its Chrome browser that blocks by default certain types of ads. Chrome’s new ad-filtering technology, released Thursday, removes ads from sites that do not adhere to the guidelines of its Better Ad Standards group.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Six Ways to Improve Business Communication Skills for Greater Success

Career Advancement

“Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.” ~Mireille Guiliano~. At a performance review meeting, Sean’s boss told him he needed to improve his communication skills. “You express yourself articulately, and you’re assertive, but you can go further,” his boss told him.

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How to Interview For Winning Leadership Competencies

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re working hard to build a Winning Well culture. You’ve identified your MIT leadership competencies and are working to cultivate and encourage the right behaviors. How you staff your key leadership roles matters more now than ever. How will you identify the […]. The post How to Interview For Winning Leadership Competencies appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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How Being a Mom Makes You Better in Business

Women on Business

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The Value of User Research

Toptal

UX designers must understand the needs and goals of potential users, their tasks, and context of use. User research will shape and define the guidelines for creating a product with great user experience.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Unit Tests in the Pyramid

Martin Fowler

Ham now starts looking at the pyramid in earnest, beginning with the foundation of the pyramid - unit tests.

Testing 279
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In the gig economy, a cybersecurity divide

The Parallax

What if Edward Snowden had been an NSA employee and not a Booz Allen contractor? Would he have kept the documents he had on the government’s spying apparatus to himself? Not likely , but those questions go to the heart of the tension between the gig economy and cybersecurity. The initial findings of new research presented at the Enigma conference in January indicate that contractor-employees of “gig” services like Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, Handy, Fiverr, and Foodora are generally less safe online

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Which is more dangerous: writing badly or reading poorly?

Scott Berkun

On Tuesdays I generally write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive ). This week I turned the tables, and asked my followers on Twitter a simple question : Which is more dangerous: people who write badly, or people who read poorly? Polls like this are mostly just fun for me. Even so, I try to word them carefully and think through how to make the question less leading towards one answer.

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Ceremonies, Celebration, and How to Create Meaningful Beginnings

Let's Grow Leaders

Imagine the Olympics without the opening ceremonies. What if the games just started. No torch. No sexy flag carriers, no dancers. No music. No costumes. No human interest stories. No ceremonial coming together of divided political interests. Just, “Up first, curling.” Ceremonies and rituals invite us […]. The post Ceremonies, Celebration, and How to Create Meaningful Beginnings appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Women Mentoring Women – Sage Advice for Female Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

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Designing a VUI – Voice User Interface

Toptal

Discover why conversational UIs and voice apps are surging in popularity and learn how to design voice user interfaces (VUIs) for both mobile and smart home speakers.

Mobile 103
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Do You “Have To” or Do You “Get To”?

Next Level Blog

What do you notice about your thought process when you’re about to start something that’s difficult or intimidating? Is your inner monologue helpful or hurtful? Here’s a hint – your self-talk is highly predictive of the result you’re going to get. There’s a simple mental shift you can make that almost guarantees a better result when you have to do something you’re not totally excited about or find a little bit scary.

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The Number 1 Tip to Ensure Returns on Your Firm’s Digital Strategy

N2Growth Blog

To succeed in today’s rough and tumble business world you need a solid vision for how you can “digitalize” your business. Indeed, it is not enough to have a vivid and compelling business strategy. We must be able to discern what role we are expecting digital technology to play within the business. It is only with this understanding that we can establish the necessary linkages required to inform digital technology direction-setting.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Are engineers more creative than designers?

Scott Berkun

On Tuesdays, I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive ). This week’s question came via email from Pavel Pavia [43 votes]: Are engineers more creative than designers? Both answers (“Yes they are!” and “No they are not!”) are naive. It’s foolish to compare massive groups of people against each other especially around a sloppy word like creativity.

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Innovation and Creativity at Work: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Are you searching for ways to bring more innovation and creativity to your team? In this month’s Frontline Festival, thought leaders from around the world share their insights on how to foster innovation at work. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of […]. The post Innovation and Creativity at Work: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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What Factors Have Encouraged the Emergence of Women Entrepreneurs?

Women on Business

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