Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 7, 2017
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.
General Leadership
MARCH 6, 2017
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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N2Growth Blog
MARCH 8, 2017
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.
Women on Business
MARCH 10, 2017
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Toptal
MARCH 8, 2017
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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CTOvision
MARCH 5, 2017
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.
Career Advancement
MARCH 6, 2017
“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.
Toptal
MARCH 6, 2017
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.
Women on Business
MARCH 9, 2017
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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.
CTOvision
MARCH 10, 2017
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.
Steve Farber
MARCH 8, 2017
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.
Toptal
MARCH 10, 2017
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.
Women on Business
MARCH 5, 2017
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
CTOvision
MARCH 8, 2017
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.
Steve Farber
MARCH 10, 2017
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.
Successful Software
MARCH 10, 2017
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.
Women on Business
MARCH 7, 2017
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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.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 6, 2017
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
Steve Farber
MARCH 6, 2017
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.
CO2 Business Leadership
MARCH 8, 2017
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
Nathan Magnuson
MARCH 6, 2017
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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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
Akana
MARCH 7, 2017
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.
Steve Farber
MARCH 8, 2017
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.
Professor Beekums
MARCH 5, 2017
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.
Coalfire
MARCH 8, 2017
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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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.
WordAligned
MARCH 7, 2017
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.
ProtectWise
MARCH 7, 2017
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.
Akana
MARCH 7, 2017
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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