Sat.Feb 07, 2015 - Fri.Feb 13, 2015

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5 Ways Social Media Can Accelerate Your Old School Sales Strategy

Let's Grow Leaders

'I was talking to a very successful sales executive friend of mine. “Oh, I don’t need any of that social media crap. I’m old school. You know, like building relationships, having a real conversation, solving problems…” I laughed, “Sounds like the perfect way to use social media to me!” Whenever someone spouts off about how “The rules of selling have changed,” I raise a skeptical eyebrow.

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Establishing Goals: Achieving Greatness One Step at a Time

General Leadership

'“Do not merely set goals for your organization…. Establish a culture which owns the success of the team.” Airman Knight used the reflection of the front door to do one last check that her Air Force uniform was perfect. She peered around the mantra “We Build Fighter Wingman” etched in the glass to straighten her gig line. As the timid, soft-spoken 19-year-old opened the door to her first duty assignment, she was nervous for the world she would find, how she would fit in and how she w

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Write Your Leadership Legacy in 6 Words

N2Growth Blog

'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. While having lunch with a number of writers, Ernest Hemingway claimed he could write a short story that was only six words long. When the lofty group of writers scoffed at the notion, he invited each of them to put ten dollars on the table, saying that if he was wrong he’d match it. But if he was right he’d keep the money.

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CTIIC to be a useful agency: Issues addressed by Former Intelligence Community Technology Leaders

CTOvision

'By Matt Southmayd. Cybersecurity is one of the most important issues facing organizations today. It is so important that President Obama addressed it 20 January during his State of the Union address. The President talked about the urgent need to ensure that "no foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks, steal our trade secrets, or invade the privacy of American families, especially our kids.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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The Powerful Side Effect of High Standards

Let's Grow Leaders

'My friend, Regina, says that she considers a kid’s book report a win if only one person ends up crying. I remember the wailing and gnashing of teeth I put my parents through in the early years. And last night was one of those nights at the Hurt household. My husband, a firefighter, was on an overnight shift, so it was just me, Sebastian, a bucket of Swedish Fish and the promise of a very long night.

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Leaving Spotify

Erik Bernhardsson

Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an amazing experience. I joined Spotify in Stockholm in 2008, mainly because a bunch of friends from programming competitions had joined already. Their goal to change music consumption seemed ridiculous at that point, but six years later I think it’s safe to say they actually succeeded.

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Don’t Buy A Samsung Smart TV Till You Understand The Threat To Your Business And Personal Information

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. The fine print offered by Samsung regarding their new Smart TV is something you need to dwell on. Not only does the TV recognize your voice, but it will record your conversations even when you do not know you are being listened to. Additionally, this information will be used by Samsung. And, according to their fine print, may also be used by third-parties they decide to work with.

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Leading Sprinkles People

Let's Grow Leaders

'A guest post from Chip Bell , author of Sprinkles. I must admit it. I’m a sucker for valentines. I smile when I get one from a friend or loved one. But, I swoon when one comes unexpectedly from a total unlikely source. It always reminds me of getting a valentine in the fifth grade from the cute redhead on the back row. I did not know she knew I even existed.

Hotels 177
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Monday Quote:

General Leadership

'“Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don’t follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.” RICK WARREN, Ladies’ Home Journal, Oct. 2008. … Read the rest. The post Monday Quote: appeared first on General Leadership.

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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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Leaving Spotify

Erik Bernhardsson

Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an amazing experience. I joined Spotify in Stockholm in 2008, mainly because a bunch of friends from programming competitions had joined already. Their goal to change music consumption seemed ridiculous at that point, but six years later I think it’s safe to say they actually succeeded.

CTO Coach 100
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Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Acquires Open Data Leader Pentaho

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Editor''s note: We have tracked Pentaho for years and have observed first hand the power of their open approaches to an end to end framework for helping organizations make the most of their data holdings. Congrats to the entire team at Pentaho for this, you created something of tremendous value to the community and see this as a big signal that you will continue to change the world in very positive ways.

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A 20-Minute Crash Course In More Human Leadership

Terry Starbucker

'Can you become a better leader in 20 minutes? I believe you can. That’s the time it takes to read 6,000 words, on average. Can you spare 20 minutes to absorb the lessons around the principles of More Human leadership that I outline in these 12 posts? I bet you can! Will you emerge from this crash course in leadership with a better perspective on what it takes to hit the “ success trifecta ” – a profitable business, a happy team, and a fulfilled leader – and the too

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How To Break The Cycle of Feast or Famine

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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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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Why I Decided To Embrace Laravel

Toptal

Laravel designers didn't spend too much time reinventing the wheel. A lot of solutions and practices are transferred from other frameworks. The decision to embrace a new PHP framework should not be taken lightly, so let's examine why considering Laravel may be worth your time and effort. Toptal freelance software engineer Alex Rytov explains what made him take the plunge and why he believes Laravel has a bright future.

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Insights Into The Black Market For Healthcare Data

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. Lets start with some good news: Sometimes problems can only be solved after there is widespread situational awareness, and now that cyber security and cyber threats are going mainstream, more and more people are being made aware of how serious this threat of stolen health care data is. A story ran on NPR''s Morning Edition today. This is absolutely great.

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Mindful Mondays: What Would Happen If You Let Go?

Next Level Blog

'As I''ve been out talking about and coaching around the book for almost 10 years, I''ve recognized that I stumbled on to something deeper than I realized when I was writing The Next Level back in 2005. Most people that are talented enough to reach next level scenarios in their careers are pretty good at picking things up. That''s primarily a cognitive exercise of learning to do something new.

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Use Stories To Captivate Your Audience

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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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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On Simplifying Through Subtraction

QAspire

'I am on a mission to minimize. It started with this website which went minimal a few months back. It was hard to give up on all those fancy pages, content and images that I had created before. I kept adding more pages to this website till it started feeling like a burden. Now that clutter is gone, it feels so much better. I am now extending the same fundamentals in other areas of work and life.

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New Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. A man in Sweden has become the first person to be fitted with a mind-controlled prosthetic arm. The prosthetic arm was surgically implanted and attaches to his bone, muscle and nerves. The artificial arm is directly attached to the skeleton, thus providing mechanical stability. Then the human''s biological control system, that is nerves and muscles, is also interfaced to the machine''s control system via neuromuscular electrodes.

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Angela Merkel Shows Leaders How to Lean In

Next Level Blog

'Chancellor Angela Merkel deserves to take the weekend off. As I write this, the outlines of a cease-fire in the Ukraine have been announced following an all-night negotiating session that Merkel and French President Francois Hollande mediated between the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The agreement wraps up more than a week of non-stop shuttle diplomacy on Merkel’s part that took her to Moscow, Washington and various other locations in Europe.

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Installing Django on IIS: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

Toptal

Although the most wide-spread and supported way of running Django is on a Linux system (e.g., with uwsgi and nginx), it actually doesn't take much work to get it to run on IIS. In this article, Toptal Engineer Ivan Voras walks you through a step-by-step tutorial, clearly explaining how to install Django on IIS.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Peculiar algorithms

Silk and Spinach

Am I over-thinking things with this Checkout TDD example ? Or is there a real problem here? Based on insightful input from Pawel and Ross , it is clear to me (now) that there is CoA between the currentBalance() method and the special offer object(s), because the method doesn’t give those objects any opportunity to make final adjustments to the amount of discount they are prepared to offer.

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iPad Physical Keyboard Comes Out of Thin Air

CTOvision

'By Katie Kennedy. Have you ever wanted a physical keyboard on your iPad? I know I have. Now there is one! Apple’s touch-based devices have changed the way we interact with computers entirely, but that hasn’t stopped users from occasionally thinking wistfully of the days when physical keyboards ruled the roost. Tactus has taken that desire to heart, and the startup’s first consumer product, the Phorm , is about to bring a tactile experience back to your iPad mini’s software keyboard.

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Functional Patterns in Domain Modeling - Composing a domain workflow with statically checked invariants

Ruminations of a Programmer

I have been doing quite a bit of domain modeling using functional programming mostly in Scala. And as it happens when you work on something for a long period of time you tend to identify more and more patterns that come up repeatedly within your implementations. You may ignore these as patterns the first time, get a feeling of mere coincidence the next time, but third time really gives you that aha!

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The Three Rules of the DevOps Game

LeanEssays

“Of course we do agile development,” she told me. “That’s just table stakes. What we need to do now is learn how to play the DevOps game. We need to know how to construct a deployment pipeline, how to keep test automation from turning into a big ball of mud, whether micro-services are just another fad, what containers are all about. We need to know if outsourcing our infrastructure is a good long term strategy and what happens to DevOps if we move to the cloud.

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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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Connascence: a mis-step

Silk and Spinach

I had a very interesting discussion today with Ross about my recent connascence/TDD post s. Neither of us was happy about either of the solutions to the corruption problem with the special offer object. Even with the cloning approach, it still seems that both the Checkout and the MultiBuyDiscount have to collude in avoiding the issue; if either gets it wrong, the tests will probably fail.

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Revolution Analytics, A Statistical Software Company, Now Part Of Microsoft

CTOvision

'By May Gourley. First announced at both Revolution Analytics'' and Microsoft''s blogs, on 23 Jan 2015, the purchase of Revolution Analytics by Microsoft was done in order to help customers "find big data value with advanced statistical analysis.". Revolution Analytics has been offering support and services for R since 2007, when it first started as Revolution Computing.

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Where Do You Stand?

Mills Scofield

'Where we stand, physically, intellectually, and emotionally, affects what we see and how we see it. Even when it appears we are standing in the same spot, we are in different spots. Why? Because when we look at anything, it is through the lens of what we’ve already seen, heard, felt, known. It’s hard to truly look at anything anew, as if we’ve never seen it before.

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