Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Early in my career, I had a GREAT boss, Gary, who had hand-selected and developed a team of rock star leaders. It’s arguably the best corporate team I’ve ever worked on. I’m not sure how he pulled this off, but nearly every […].
Henrik Warne
DECEMBER 17, 2017
For the past two months, I have been helping my son’s grade 8 class to learn to program. All students wrote Python programs and got a feel for what programming is. This post has details on how we organized the course, code examples and lessons learned. Background. This year, all schools in Sweden are required to start teaching programming. Many schools already teach programming, but they depend on having teachers that know enough to teach.
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Toptal
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Starting a fund is an aspiration harbored by many financiers. While attention tends to focus on investing and deal making, the initial fundraising process is riddled with uncertainty. This guide presents the main considerations to take when raising a fund, covering the legal, accounting, staffing, and strategic roadblocks that will be encountered.
General Leadership
DECEMBER 18, 2017
“ As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It’s that festive time of the year when we pause to spend time with our families and focus on what is important: our relationships. As a result, we turn off the monitors, switch off the laptops, close the books and take off or reading glasses for a short period while we recharge our batteries and sharpen our pencils for the new
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Each week I read leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. Click on the title of the article to read the full text. I have […].
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Toptal
DECEMBER 20, 2017
The AI revolution is transforming the consumer world. Some developers may shy away from AI, which has traditionally been a heavily technical specialty. In this article, Toptal Freelance Salesforce Developer Fahad Munawar Khan explores how accessible to developers the AI cloud has become, even for non-Salesforce apps, with Salesforce Einstein.
Change Starts Here
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Another year is coming to a close! The following are the most popular posts of 2017 at the Enclaria blog. Which were your favorites, and what did you miss? Thank you for reading and sharing! What topics would you like to see covered next year? Please reply in the comments. Two Ways to Overcome Your […].
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 20, 2017
Quick shot for a counting down the days before a long holiday break Wednesday. Today's New York Times ran a piece on the growing elder care challenges in the US and the disproportionate impact that elder care demands are placing on female workers. You can read the piece titled 'How Care For Elders, Not Children, Denies Women a Paycheck' , here. Two things of note from the piece, and then one plug for a recent HR Happy Hour Show we did on this topic in case you missed it.
Code Simplicity
DECEMBER 20, 2017
There are three key factors to being or becoming a great programmer: awareness, understanding, and responsibility. I’ve talked a lot about the subject of understanding. Heck, I even named my most recent book Understanding Software. In particular, I’ve pointed out many times that the better you understand something, the better you will do it.
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Toptal
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Whether we need a logo for an app, a startup, or brand positioning, following trends is not enough. A carefully considered design process is needed to design an impactful logo and brand.
Loom Systems
DECEMBER 22, 2017
No doubt, 2017 was the year of AI (and, well, also machine learning). This year, Artificial intelligence produced so many assumptions, predictions, news and. A quick google search reveals 123,000,000 results (!), while AI produced 2,090,000,000 results (!!). Everyone is writing about AI' it's advantages, it's contribution to humanity, interconnections with adjacent disciplines, etc.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 19, 2017
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CTOvision
DECEMBER 20, 2017
As the Government continues to migrate to the cloud it becomes critical to integrate stronger security into its operations. Cloud and data security must go together. While cloud computing provides valuable IT architectures and solutions for government agencies, it also requires them to relinquish data security to public cloud service providers. Using the services of a […].
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Toptal
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Modern front-end frameworks constantly require you to download an entire development environment, complete with dependencies, and compile your code before even trying to view it on your browser. Is this something good? Is it the problem we are building more complex sites, or the frameworks are complex on their on own and they introduce an unnecessary level of complexity.
Loom Systems
DECEMBER 18, 2017
As we look forward to the new year and all the potential it holds for IT developments, we can’t help but think about the things we would be all too happy to lose. Whether they are process-oriented factors, procedural nightmares or restricted thinking, in our opinion, any person in the IT world would be better off without them. Here are our top 7 rants. 1.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 20, 2017
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CTOvision
DECEMBER 20, 2017
PKWARE, a global leader in data security, recently announced the launch of four virtual and hardware key management appliances. The appliances will allow for simplified deployment and enhanced security features of Smartcrypt Enterprise Manager, the central component of PKWARE's Smartcrypt platform. Smartcrypt Appliances are the only key management appliances that have out-of-the-box support for persistent […].
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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.
Toptal
DECEMBER 21, 2017
Conducting UX analysis as part of an iterative process provides valuable, actionable insights into enhancing and optimizing a product’s user experience.
Scott Berkun
DECEMBER 19, 2017
[There’s no askberkun post today – hope you enjoy this timely essay on films and expectations. There are no spoilers about The Last Jedi, but I’ll allow them in the comments.]. “The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.” —Joan Didion. We love or hate films based on what we expect of them. It’s easy to blame a movie’s creators, as we are their customers, but in reality half the work is ours.
Women on Business
DECEMBER 18, 2017
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Abstracta - Software Development
DECEMBER 20, 2017
In part one of this three-part series on code analysis, we explore technical debt and the means for tackling it Code quality is often said to be an internal attribute of quality since the user never lays eyes on it. But, there comes a time. The post Code Analysis Part 1: What You Should Know About Technical Debt appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.
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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.
Toptal
DECEMBER 22, 2017
In a recent project, there were several programmatic tasks I needed to repeat periodically. One task in particular involved updating user-level permissions based on evidence of membership level purchase or subscription. Instead of going into the admin panel and manually deleting hundreds (maybe thousands) of subscriptions, I opted to reach for one of my favorite WordPress tools: WP-CLI, which fixed the problem in a few keystrokes.
The Accidental Successful CIO
DECEMBER 20, 2017
Keeping the company safe is the job of the CIO Image Credit: Bill Smith. I think that we can all agree that we are living in an increasingly dangerous world. As our companies understand the importance of information technology and acquire more and more valuable information, the bad guys keep trying to find ways to break in and steal customer credit card and personal information.
Cloudera
DECEMBER 20, 2017
Here’s a puzzle for you: 3, 1, 2, 0, 1, -1, ? 240, 48, 12, 4, 2, ? 2, 5, 11, 17, 23, 31, ? Find the pattern? . You may end up scratching your head a bit, but many of you will figure it out, without even pulling out a calculator. We humans are pretty good at pattern detection. And, we often use some form of pattern detection in our daily lives to help us solve problems or predict our next-best course of action.
Abhishek Tiwari
DECEMBER 22, 2017
Cheap storage and on-demand compute in the cloud coupled with the emergence of new big data frameworks and tools are forcing us to rethink the whole ETL and data warehousing architecture. There is a strong argument for ELT i.e. extract, load, and transform model. Classic ETL. In classic Extract, transform, and load (ETL) model, we store entities in their corresponding application databases i.e. as rows in the relational tables.
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Toptal
DECEMBER 21, 2017
Cybersecurity challenges abound in higher education. This article explores the cybersecurity threats that the higher education space faces, as well as a range of solutions that can help colleges and universities combat future attacks.
QSM
DECEMBER 21, 2017
This post was originally published on Linkedin. Join the QSM Linkedin Group and Company Page to stay up-to-date with more content like this. Successful software execution has always been about having the most relevant data at your fingertips, but there are more ways to gain knowledge beyond graphs and charts. The sharing of best practices and information on the latest solutions, along with access to communities of like-minded individuals, can also be powerful tools for managers responsible for d
The Plain Programmer
DECEMBER 21, 2017
In a microservices system data tends to get spread out. Without a consistent mechanism for handling identifiers it can become increasingly difficult to follow how data flows through the system. And, it can become problematic to even know what data is being dealt with. In many monolithic applications a database tends to act as the source for identifiers used for resources.
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