Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 14, 2016

Have you ever looked at your to do list and just laughed? You think, “oh right, that’s not happening,” and then moments later, you realize that none of the tasks on your list are really an option. Perhaps that’s the point that your nervous laughter turns to tears. That’s the wall I hit this week. I’ve had a number of serious personal challenges that require an intense investment of emotion and time, some stuff I wouldn’t have chosen, and certainly not at

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General Leadership

MARCH 16, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leaders who see their role as serving others leave the most lasting legacy.” James Kouzes and Barry Posner. This blog post came to me after recently seeing numerous online headlines about our 44 th President seeking to establish his legacy.

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Erik Bernhardsson

MARCH 15, 2016

I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I’ve often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers into signing offers. On numerous occasions, I’ve gotten an email halfway through the interview process.

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Toptal

MARCH 18, 2016

Writing code that is easily testable takes some effort and planning. However, some patterns exist that can be used to write simple and functional code, making it easier to test them when the time comes. In this article, Toptal engineer Joshua Mock shares some useful tips and patterns for writing testable code in JavaScript that are both simple to understand and simple to implement.

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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.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2016

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival, in keeping with the seasonal turn toward spring, is all about fresh insights for leaders. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Our thanks as well to the Brainy Quote site for being a great source of quotations.

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Erik Bernhardsson

MARCH 15, 2016

I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I’ve often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers into signing offers. On numerous occasions, I’ve gotten an email halfway through the interview process.

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CTOvision

MARCH 17, 2016

William Hayles. As an admin, it’s your job to be paranoid. But you might be worrying about the wrong things. You might be overlooking the biggest threat to your servers. Pick your poison, folks - there’s no shortage of boogeymen in the cybersecurity space. From digital espionage to terrifying malware to malicious or ignorant users, the notion that your servers are constantly being assailed by threats from all sides isn’t an unreasonable one to hold.

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Toptal

MARCH 17, 2016

Navigation in mobile applications, when done right, can have tremendous positive impact on overall user experience. Android offers application developers multiple ways of implementing navigation in their application. However, not all navigation patterns are created equal. In this article, Toptal engineer Becze Szabolcs shows us how to implement fragment-based navigation and how it stacks up against Android's traditional navigation philosophy.

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General Leadership

MARCH 14, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.” from the book “Extreme Ownership” by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin. What did you think about when you saw the title? Did you think that this would be a negative article describing how a weak leader can be a detriment to an organization?

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Women on Business

MARCH 13, 2016

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CTOvision

MARCH 14, 2016

Bob Gourley. GDC2016 is the largest game developer conference in the globe. By all accounts it will be the biggest yet for virtual reality. It has become so huge a sub-conference has been organized called the Virtual Reality Developers Conference ( VRDC ). It expands beyond games to help developers produce immersive entertainment of all kinds, from games to CG movies to filmed experiences to simulations.

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Toptal

MARCH 14, 2016

To create a.NET project from scratch, simply using Visual Studio Wizard is good enough most of the time. However, the default project settings produced by wizards are hardly acceptable for professional teams, as they set too low of a bar on quality. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Andrei Smirnov guides us through several standard practices, configuration files, and project settings every developer should apply when starting a new.NET project.

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QAspire

MARCH 15, 2016

Before leadership be effective, it has to be true. And the truth of leadership is essentially human. If we have to raise the bar of leadership, we need to first cultivate truer leadership at the core. In his article “ Why The World Needs Truer Leaders (And How to Be One)” , Umair Haque defines eudaimonic leadership as, leaders who expand human potential to its very highest, so everyone can live a life that matters.

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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.

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Women on Business

MARCH 17, 2016

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CTOvision

MARCH 12, 2016

Bob Gourley. In December 1998 when transitioning into a job doing intelligence support to DoD computer network defense, one of my mentors reminded me of a Reagan-era publication that helped the public better understand the Soviet threat called "Soviet Military Power." This document was based on the intelligence. It provided the best possible understanding of Soviet military hardware and operational concepts but was produced at an unclassified level so it could be broadly disseminated.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 14, 2016

Guest post by Braden Kelley Change efforts are an expedition, a sometimes perilous journey that must be collaborative.

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CO2 Business Leadership

MARCH 17, 2016

A word is dead when it is said some say, I say it just begins to live that day. – Emily Dickinson Words can uplift or cause lasting harm to others, but can words uplift or cause lasting harm to nearby substances like water and rice? Can those substances absorb and reflect our emotions? Dr. Masaru Emoto, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Messages in Water , believes so, and he documents the effects in astonishing pictures of frozen water crystals, using high-speed photogra

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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.

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Women on Business

MARCH 18, 2016

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CTOvision

MARCH 14, 2016

Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Obama to Techies: Uncle Sam Needs You - Nextgov. The rebirth of the Obama Administration's Apps.Gov | TechCrunch - TechCrunch. Microsoft drops Bitcoin; Windows Store stops accepting the digital currency. Facebook, Google and WhatsApp plan to increase encryption of user data - The Guardian.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 16, 2016

Turning paper into electronic records is turning out to be harder then expected Image Credit: benben. In the U.S., the government is investing a great deal of money into transforming the country’s medical system. A key part of this transformation is the conversion of medical records from paper to electronic records. On paper, this sounds like a great idea.

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CO2 Business Leadership

MARCH 14, 2016

“The human mind gets creased into a way of seeing things.” -Antoine Lavoisier, Reflections on Phlogiston Kripkean Dogmatist If you are showing up as a Kripkean Dogmatist then you treat any new information that disagrees with your position as irrelevant. The moment you know that what you are hearing, reading or observing is counter your position you know enough, it is not correct.

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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.

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Women on Business

MARCH 16, 2016

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CTOvision

MARCH 18, 2016

Bob Gourley. Thanks to the professional, virtuous work of security researchers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller and some fantastic reporting on this research by Andy Greenberg of Wired Magazine , we have long known that theoretical hacks against cars are no longer theoretical. They are real. Many connected cars can be hacked and they can be hacked from long distance.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 14, 2016

Every so often I have the nice surprise of talking with someone who was in one of my leadership programs a few years before. It happened again last week when I was conducting colleague feedback interviews for an executive coaching client. As I started one call with a guy named Ben, I said, “I don’t think we’ve had the opportunity to talk before have we?

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TXI

MARCH 17, 2016

All that gorgeous photography and stylized copy that makes your product sell so well — it’s also what’s taking precious seconds to load when you call up your site on a smartphone. You need rich media to properly showcase what you’re selling, but you also need your site to be speedy enough to load quickly […]. The post MIT’s Polaris can cut page load time by 34 percent — what you need to know appeared first on Table XI.

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Women on Business

MARCH 15, 2016

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CTOvision

MARCH 16, 2016

Bob Gourley. This post is a follow on to our report " The Battle For Your Head Is Underway: VR from Oculus, Sony, HTC/Valve competing at GDC2016 ". So far we have seen nothing to change our overall conclusion. The Virtual Reality device you decide to select for your home or business use will depend on what you plan on doing with it. But your three basic choices are Oculus, Sony or HTC.

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Storm Consulting

MARCH 15, 2016

There are three regular planning events in Scrum, and although each has a different objective and audience they form the basic mechanism for Agile delivery and risk-management. Managers that understand the purpose of these three meetings will be able to gain the benefits Agile Delivery in a wide range of business situations, not just in IT and whether or not they follow Scrum.

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