Coding Horror

APRIL 15, 2016

You know what's universally regarded as un-fun by most programmers? Writing assembly language code. As Steve McConnell said back in 1994 : Programmers working with high-level languages achieve better productivity and quality than those working with lower-level languages. Languages such as C++, Java, Smalltalk, and Visual Basic have been credited with improving productivity, reliability, simplicity, and comprehensibility by factors of 5 to 15 over low-level languages such as assembly and C.

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General Leadership

APRIL 11, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” Abraham Lincoln. We all know the importance and emphasis placed on impressions, especially first impressions. As mentioned in a 2011 Forbes article by Carol Goman , in business a first impression is often formed within seven seconds.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2016

My guess is that right about now, you could use some encouragement. Not meaningless cheer-leading, but some well considered, well-timed, well-meaning “you’ve got this and here’s how I know…” In fact, I’d be willing to bet that the next five people you encounter could use some meaningful encouragement too. No matter how confident people appear on the outside, chances are they could use some encouragement to bolster their insides.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 10, 2016

Six years ago I published a little free ebook, “ Leadership From a Glass Half-Full: The 5 Lessons You Need To Learn Before You Jump Into The Pool” It was a way for me, as I wrote at the time, to “share my hard-earned lessons with leaders of all stripes, but particularly new and emerging ones – ones looking for the kind of guidance that I didn’t get” 14, 338 downloads later (thank you!

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Toptal

APRIL 15, 2016

Streams are a powerful construct in Node.js and in I/O driven programming in general. Gulp, a tool for task automation, leverages streams in elegant ways to allow developers to enhance their build workflow. In this article, Toptal engineer Mikhail Angelov gives us some insight into how Gulp works with streams by showing us step-by-step how to build a Gulp-like build automation tool.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2016

Is life a little crazy for you right now? It sure is here! Winning Well is full-speed ahead and we’re so excited! Even in the midst of craziness though, it’s wise to take a break and we have just the thing for you. Here’s our Winning Well coloring page! Have you caught the coloring trend over these last few months? We’d love to see your work, so much so that we’ve created a contest.

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CTOvision

APRIL 12, 2016

Katie Kennedy. This post is the first in a three part series on the Women in Cybersecurity Conference. On March 31 st through April 2 nd , women from academia, government, and industry from around the globe gathered in Dallas, Texas for Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference. This three-day long event was designed to both enhance the state of cyber security and to raise awareness about the importance and nature of a cybersecurity career.

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Toptal

APRIL 13, 2016

For every tech project or business, there's inevitably the “client” and the “programmer”. Sometimes they make it work between themselves, but often someone has to step in to establish the ground rules, keep everyone honest, and facilitate communication between all parties. This someone, this hero, is the project manager. In this entertaining article, Ethan James gives his insights as to why you, the developer, and you, the client, should invest in a project manager. or at least employ the techni

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General Leadership

APRIL 15, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The ballplayer who loses his head, who can’t keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all. Lou Gehrig. It’s baseball season again, and so we begin the annual Rite of the Green Grass and White Lines.

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Steve Farber

APRIL 9, 2016

There’s that famous scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Indy’s map leads him to a great chasm, and he has to decide if he should literally take a leap of faith off the ledge. If his map is a lie, he will fall to his death. If his map is true, he’ll somehow live. Spoiler alert: He lives. It was a bold and blatant disregard for normal constraints to change the world for the better.

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CTOvision

APRIL 9, 2016

Bob Gourley. An operational fleet of robotic trucks just demonstrated their safety and efficiency by autonomously moving across Europe. In an article titled " A fleet of trucks just drove themselves across Europe ," Joon Ian Wong writes that: About a dozen trucks from major manufacturers like Volvo and Daimler just completed a week of largely autonomous driving across Europe, the first such major exercise on the continent.

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Toptal

APRIL 13, 2016

For every tech project or business, there's inevitably the “client” and the “programmer”. Sometimes they make it work between themselves, but often someone has to step in to establish the ground rules, keep everyone honest, and facilitate communication between all parties. This someone, this hero, is the project manager. In this entertaining article, Ethan James gives his insights as to why you, the developer, and you, the client, should invest in a project manager. or at least employ the techni

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Women on Business

APRIL 15, 2016

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2016

By: Jim Kerr. A guide for new executives that explores how to create an overarching, enterprise-wide transformative program. The book provides a best-practice checklist for 8 core areas: Strategy Setting, Technology Alignment, Business Renovation, Project Management, Communications Renewal, Employee Engagement, Staff Transformation, and Organizational Design.

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CTOvision

APRIL 14, 2016

Katie Kennedy. Fabio Trojani, a Professor of Finance at the Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI) of the University of Geneva and a Senior Chair of the Swiss Finance Institute, oversees a quantitative research team that carries out research in various areas of Financial Economics, Financial Econometrics and Statistics. The projects Professor Trojani works on, need to be powered by a significant HPC infrastructure.

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Toptal

APRIL 12, 2016

Exceptions are as old as programming itself. An unhandled exception may cause unexpected behavior, and results can be spectacular. Over time, these errors have contributed to the impression that exceptions are bad. But exceptions are a fundamental element of modern programming. Rather than fearing exceptions, we should embrace them and learn how to benefit from them.

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Women on Business

APRIL 13, 2016

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 11, 2016

Guest post by Sophorn Chhay Mobile marketing isn’t only for the customer, it’s a viable avenue for product managers, advertisers and even sales floor assistants. If your brand needs to jump-start its product resourcing department, it’d better invest in mobile.

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CTOvision

APRIL 14, 2016

Bob Gourley. There have been rumors in the security community for several weeks now about outages in the Swedish Air Traffic Control System that may have been caused by malicious activity. Now reporting indicates these rumors may in fact be true. There have not been any official government reports on this, and there is no publicly available forensic information we can analyze, but press reports indicate that outages between 4 and 9 November that were initially attributed to solar flares were act

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

APRIL 13, 2016

Digital engagement is once again shifting, as we can see from the main discussions at Facebook’s F8 conference this week about the new release of Messenger and its smart chatbots, or when we look at what’s happening with popular team messaging services like Slack , which is being “ overrun by friendly, wonderful bots.” While bots seem like a minor improvement to digital user experience, some believe — including myself — that a combination of today’s late

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Sailpoint

APRIL 13, 2016

For many professionals, the challenge of work/life balance is a constant struggle. In today’s digital age, it has become increasingly difficult to turn ourselves “off” or to be completely unavailable during vacations or holidays (for those of us who even try take these days off!). On average, US employees fail to use nearly five vacation days per year according to an article in Fortune.

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QAspire

APRIL 14, 2016

There is no real leadership without change. If you are simply “sustaining” what already exists, you are not a leader because real leadership is about change – moving people, processes, outcomes and culture to a better place. In an organizational context, there is no change without some leadership. Without any leadership, things still change but often, in a southwards direction.

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CTOvision

APRIL 11, 2016

Katie Kennedy. Last month, Hortonworks announced their release of their Hortonworks DataFlow 1.2 , a data-source agnostic, real time data collection and dataflow management platform that makes data movement fast, easy and secure. HDF 1.2 supports over 130 processors including Kafka, Couchbase, Microsoft Azure Event Hub and Splunk, which enable an easy point and click user experience for creation of powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation and system mediation logic.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

APRIL 13, 2016

Digital engagement is once again shifting, as we can see from the main discussions at Facebook’s F8 conference this week about the new release of Messenger and its smart chatbots, or when we look at what’s happening with popular team messaging services like Slack , which is being “ overrun by friendly, wonderful bots.” While bots seem like a minor improvement to digital user experience, some believe — including myself — that a combination of today’s late

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Sailpoint

APRIL 10, 2016

Our CEO Mark McClain recently spoke with SC Magazine about how companies can address the insider threat through identity and access management. The post SC Magazine: The Insider Threat Versus Identity and Access Management appeared first on SailPoint.

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The Kini Group

APRIL 11, 2016

Have you seen that BAE Systems commercial featuring a CEO being told all of this company data has been hacked? It’s pretty scary. I get chills every time I see it. I’m not the only one with that reaction. Many other company leaders are worried about their data security too. 86% of executives are concerned about a lack of data security. The fear isn’t unwarranted.

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CTOvision

APRIL 15, 2016

Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Federal government to spend AU$5.95m on joint research with China - ZDNet. Get your cycler to Mars: Buzz Aldrin lays out his not-so-simple plan to settle Mars in 2040. New Relic partners with Major League Baseball to highlight data and analytics in sports.

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CoachStation

APRIL 13, 2016

One of the biggest challenges for managers who are learning to lead is developing the ability to set expectations and standards and then hold people accountable to these expectations. Understanding the benefits and why to apply a model such as the one highlighted in this blog is relatively simple, however application, consistency and follow-through can be a challenge for many.

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