Sat.Mar 04, 2017 - Fri.Mar 10, 2017

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One Reason Your Employees are Rolling Their Eyes

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever had a supervisor who congratulated you for doing something that you knew wasn’t praiseworthy, or worse, something you knew actually made things worse in the long run? Or have you seen a peer recognized for their “great work” only to find yourself secretly muttering “If they only knew?” I see this happen all the time.

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Conducting Competently

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.” Benjamin Zander. I grew up playing the violin in an orchestra.

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Leadership in Cybersecurity

N2Growth Blog

Defining the position of the lead security person in an enterprise can be a challenging and sometimes confusing task. There are various job titles such as; Chief Security Officer (CSO), Chief Risk Officer, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), V.P., IT Security, V.P., or Director of Information Security. Regardless of titles or functional position, the lead role in a security organization is expected to wear many hats and solve a myriad of strategic, operational and tactical problems.

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A Unit Testing Practitioner's Guide to Everyday Mockito

Toptal

Using Mockito is not just a matter of adding another dependency. It requires changing how you think about your unit tests while removing a lot of boilerplate. In this article, we'll cover multiple mock interfaces, listening invocations, matchers, and argument captors, and see firsthand how Mockito makes your tests cleaner and easier to understand.

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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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Branding Challenges Faced By Small Businesses

Women on Business

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The Race for The Best Self-Driving Auto Tech

CTOvision

Jeremy Sutter. Whether the public is ready or not, carmakers and tech giants are beginning to cooperate to make driverless vehicles a commodity sooner than anyone expected. Competition. Global companies such as Honda, Hyundai, and BMW, are just a few of the big car makers joining tech firms like Intel, Google, and Samsung to perfect driverless systems.

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Four Effective Habits to Combat Demotivatiors at Work

Career Advancement

“There is no[thing] better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” ~Malcolm X~. When Stacy started work, she found it exciting and rewarding. She felt she was moving up and making a difference. But lately, when she walks in the door at work she feels drained and unenthusiastic.

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Xamarin Forms, MVVMCross, and SkiaSharp: The Holy Trinity of Cross-Platform App Development

Toptal

Developing a mobile app for multiple platforms can be quite costly. Implementing the same functionalities in multiple programming languages and dealing with a plethora of unique libraries for each platform requires a massive amount of time and knowledge. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Sylvain Gravel talks about Xamarin and its companion technologies that let you build mobile applications for multiple platforms without compromising familiarity, performance, and uniqueness.

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3 Important Steps to Close the Retirement Confidence Gap

Women on Business

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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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Security Innovation Network Gathering Innovators and Enterprise Leaders at 28-29 March 2017 ITSEF

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Hosted at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, this event gathers over 300+ leading private equity investors, corporates, venture-back tech companies and emerging growth businesses. The cyber innovation ecosystem is broadening. CISOs and government groups alike recognize the current imperatives to devote resources and partner with cybersecurity companies.

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He Marched Forth on March Fourth

Steve Farber

This post was written by my niece on March 4th, the one-year anniversary of her father’s (my brother’s) death. She is an excellent writer, and her voice has that exceptional quality of being both wise and funny. Just like her dad, as a matter of fact. I’m posting this in full, so please give her some link love and pop over to her blog called Anxiosaurus Rex.

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Android Threading: All You Need to Know

Toptal

Android provides many ways of creating and managing threads, and third-party libraries exist to make that even easier. However, with so many options, choosing the right approach can be quite confusing. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Eliran Goshen discusses some common scenarios in Android development that involve threading and how each of the scenarios can be dealt with.

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What Makes People Buy? 4 Simple Website Copy Hacks to Boost Your Sales

Women on Business

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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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Tech Companies That Missed the Mark in 2016

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. From Snapchat Spectacles to virtual reality, 2016 was a year of innovation and growth in the tech industry. However, not every company saw great success, and even the tech giants had some big snafus. Here are some of the most notable tech company failures of the past year. Samsung. At the top of the list is Samsung , which faced a huge loss both in its finances and reputation with its Galaxy Note 7 fiasco.

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Getting Your Radical Edge

Steve Farber

SET UP YOUR WUP. Choose a notebook or tablet—paper or electronic—to use as your first Wake-Up Pad and write these headings as a reminder of how to use it: Scan & Eavesdrop. Skim the bestseller lists, magazine racks, television listings, RSS and Twitter feeds, social media posts, and headlines of newspapers from around the country and the world. Scope out the room that you’re sitting in and the crowd that you’re walking with.

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Why you should create a ‘honeypot’ page

Successful Software

Software piracy is a fact of life for vendors of desktop software. Take a look at Google’s helpful suggestions if you search on the name of one of my products: Trying to make your software crack-proof is a fools errand. But one simple thing you can do is create a ‘honeypot’ page to try to convert people searching for a cracked version of your software.

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Setting up Your Business Entity

Women on Business

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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A World Class Example of Dopamine Derailment

Next Level Blog

In the latest installment of the story that wouldn’t die, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced that the two Price Waterhouse partners responsible for the Best Picture award snafu will never work the Oscars again. There’s all kind of evidence that the lead partner, Brian Cullinan, was distracted by Tweeting and snapping photos of Best Actress winner Emma Stone in the very moments that he should have been focused on making sure that Warren Beatty got the right envelope be

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7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Choosing Your Protégé

Steve Farber

One of the things I learned while writing one of my books, Greater Than Yourself , is that finding a mentor can be difficult — but finding a protégé is even more daunting. And, I would argue, far more important. There’s no perfect way to pick someone. But since we’re in the closing days of National Mentoring Month, this is the perfect time to start figuring it out for yourself.

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The Benefits of Career Coaching and Mentoring

CO2 Business Leadership

As leaders work on their own career development, they sometimes lose sight of their need to serve as a mentor and coach for others. If you have experience in a role that someone else would like to learn more about, the benefits of mentoring and coaching are often worth the time investment—for you, the mentee, and the organization. Whether you create a company mentorship program or go about things more informally, fostering your employees’ growth is a hallmark of great leadership that pays immedi

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14 Questions to Answer Before Signing Up a Vendor

Nathan Magnuson

I love the opportunity for new partnerships. Having been on both sides of the vendor & client agreement, I’ve enjoyed some partnerships so incredible that folks were often eager to work late – and then chum together afterward. Unfortunately, I’ve also been in situations where colleagues rued the day an agreement was signed. In the end, high quality partnerships come down to trust.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Video: APIs are the heart of enterprise growth for 2017

Akana

Listen to Rod Cope as he discusses enterprise digital transformation and how APIs are driving growth towards new markets and customers. The post Video: APIs are the heart of enterprise growth for 2017 appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.

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GTY: The Cure for Kiasu

Steve Farber

Singapore boasts the second-most competitive economy in the world, according to the World Economic Forum, so it’s no surprise that their people are highly driven. The first time I traveled there as a keynote speaker, however, I was encouraged to see that their competitiveness didn’t shut the door on what I call a Greater Than Yourself (GTY) mindset.

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Software Systems Will Fail

Professor Beekums

Gitlab had a very public outage last month. Most companies provide some kind of explanation when their services are interrupted. Those are usually sanitized (or seem sanitized) to make things seem better than they actually are. Gitlab instead provided an extremely detailed report of the incident as well as all the things they know they could be better at.

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FedRAMP Tailored program for low-risk use cloud service offerings

Coalfire

On February 16, the FedRAMP Project Management Office (PMO) released the new FedRAMP Tailored security controls baseline for public comment (comment period closes March 17, 2017). The new FedRAMP Tailored security controls baseline was created for Cloud Service Providers (CSPs ) who have cloud service offerings (CSO) that do not require the more stringent process of FedRAMP Moderate or FedRAMP High security control baselines.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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24 Puzzles

WordAligned

On The Universe of Discourse Mark Dominus discusses the classic 24 Puzzle : You are given a sequence of four digits, say 1, 2, 3, 4, and your job is to combine them with ordinary arithmetic operations (+, -, ×, and ÷) in any order to make a target number, typically 24. For example, with 1, 2, 3, 4, you can go with ((1+2)+3)×4=24 or with 4×((2×3)×1)=24.

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Practice Makes Perfect: Threat Hunting In The Cloud.

ProtectWise

Discovering malicious activity in your network goes well beyond the real-time detection of indicators of compromise. The reality is that cyberattacks can frequently occur under the radar, and you don’t always know they’ve happened until the damage is done. That reality makes threat hunting, or the process of proactively searching out evidence of malicious activity, a critical function for any organization with sensitive data or resources -- which is just about every organization.

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Video: APIs are the heart of enterprise growth for 2017

Akana

Listen to Rod Cope as he discusses enterprise digital transformation and how APIs are driving growth towards new markets and customers. The post Video: APIs are the heart of enterprise growth for 2017 appeared first on API Management Blog - Akana.

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