Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 2, 2016
Today I’m delighted to share my Winning Well interview with Gigi Barnett on CBS Baltimore. Thanks for all you are doing to help spread the Winning Well word. Excited to see so many teams using it for their Spring Book groups. Would love to hear your insights and application. If you’re enjoying Winning Well, we would really appreciate your leaving an Amazon review.
General Leadership
MAY 6, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life!” Leo Buscaglia. (I recently had the tremendous privilege of officiating the retirement of Chief Master Sergeant Mike Klintworth, a friend and warrior leader I served with in Afghanistan.
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Toptal
MAY 4, 2016
In a nutshell, declarative programming consists of instructing a program on what needs to be done, instead of telling it how to do it. This approach involves providing a domain-specific language (DSL) for expressing what the user wants. This DSL shields users from messy low-level constructs while still achieving the desired end-state. While declarative programming offers advantages over the imperative approach it replaces, it’s not as straightforward as it may seem.
CTOvision
MAY 3, 2016
Justin Blanchard. After all these years, cloud computing is still a victim of myths that are largely untrue, and are often obviously untrue. Cloud computing, and public cloud platforms specifically, have been around for a long time. The cloud is used every day by companies ranging from one-person freelance outfits to the largest enterprise organizations with tens of thousands of employees.
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.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 4, 2016
Moms are full of wisdom, aren’t they? Many leaders credit their moms for their influence, such as: Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. ~ Stevie Wonder. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln.
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Toptal
MAY 5, 2016
Some platforms have an overwhelming number of options for web frameworks. Node.js, the event-driven server-side JavaScript environment, is one such platform. Whether it's the minimalist Express or the full-blown MVC web framework Sails.js, Node.js seems to have it all. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Chuoxian Yang explores four of the most popular Node.js web frameworks and discusses how each framework stands out from the rest of the crowd in Node.js.
CTOvision
MAY 2, 2016
Katie Kennedy. This is the third post in a three part blog post on the Women in Cybersecurity Conference that took place March 31st through April 2nd in Dallas, Texas. The first keynote for the final day of the Women in Cybersecurity conference was Shelley Westman. Westman had a long road that ultimately led her to where she is today, Vice President of Operations and Strategic Integration Initiatives at IBM Security.
Change Starts Here
MAY 4, 2016
It happens all the time. Leaders assign responsibility for implementing change, and then expect that you’ll take care of it without much involvement from them. Or they approve your project without doing much to support it after that. Because you’re driving everything forward, you end up being seen as the person who is leading the change, with leaders being observers and participants.
General Leadership
MAY 2, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.” D. H. Lawrence. ROE or Return on Equity can be described as the sum of net income returned as an expressed percentage of shareholder equity.
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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
MAY 6, 2016
It's tragically common for developers to come into a project where proper automated testing has been and will continue to be overlooked. It's a situation Freelance Developer Bhushan Lodha has found himself in all too often; fortunately, he's found a solution. In this article, he briefly covers the reasons why testing is overlooked and ultimately explains his "coding life hack" to ensure quality control even when he can't introduce a testing framework.
CTOvision
MAY 1, 2016
Katie Kennedy. Fiction, especially fiction with technology components, can be an entertaining way to think through ethics issues. With that in mind a series we have been watching is the Netflix anthology called Black Mirror. Black Mirror highlights the dark side of life and technology, is now a reality. In the third episode of Season 1, "The Entire History of You", the characters are implanted with a device called a "grain".
Lead on Purpose
MAY 2, 2016
Learning is one of the key tenets of leadership. Great leaders are learners. They read voraciously. They write and teach what they learn. Learning is as much a part of their life as eating.
Women on Business
MAY 2, 2016
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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
MAY 2, 2016
Today, writing applications in languages that compile to JavaScript is a very common practice. Scala developers, for example, can use Scala.js and have the same language for both the server and the client. That said, Scala's compiler and standard dependency management tools are too limiting in the modern JavaScript world. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Michele Sciabarra shows us how to integrate Scala.js with the plethora of JavaScript modules available on NPM, using tools l
CTOvision
MAY 3, 2016
Michael Johnson. AFCEA International and George Mason University are hosting the annual Critical Issues in C4I Symposium which will bring academia, industry and government/military together to address important issues in C4I technology and systems R&D. We are proud to announce that Cognitio's Bob Gourley will be providing assessments on the future of IT relevant to operational ISR and critical DoD missions (including Cybersecurity, Counter IED, Counter terrorism) during this event.
QAspire
MAY 2, 2016
Leadership in a business context is challenging because its effectiveness depends not just on a leader’s key traits but also on organizational decision making, competitive forces and constantly changing external situation. On the other hand, people want to work in healthier organization cultures where they can maximize their chances of adding value – both to their own selves as well as to their organizations.
Women on Business
MAY 6, 2016
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Next Level Blog
MAY 2, 2016
With all of the different roles he’s played in the movies, Tom Hanks is as well qualified as anyone to speculate on what makes a hero a hero. From Army Ranger captain John Miller in Saving Private Ryan to astronaut Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 to the cargo ship commander Captain Phillips and, coming later this year, “Miracle on the Hudson” pilot Sully Sullenberger , Hanks has lots of experience going deep on what makes a hero.
CTOvision
MAY 4, 2016
Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Data61, Treasury to review the future of blockchain technology in Australia - ZDNet. GeekWire Deals: Use Alexa or your phone to control your TV with the Blumoo IR blaster. Apple hires robotic hand pioneer Yoky Matsuoka, former UW professor and Nest exec.
Nathan Magnuson
MAY 2, 2016
I’m constantly surprised at what passes for “leadership training” these days. Then I remember that most leaders work in business operations and their involvement is often extracurricular. I’ve also noted how easily many business operators are impressed with the leadership development support that comes their way. It’s almost as if the simple fact that the organization is investing in them speaks more than any of the concepts or structure.
The Accidental Successful CIO
MAY 4, 2016
CIOs have to make hard decisions about future data centers Image Credit: Intel Free Press. If there is one thing that I think that we can all agree on then it is that our data processing and storage needs continue to grow as the company comes to realize the importance of information technology. The person with the CIO job now has to find a way to deal with this explosive growth.
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
Greg Brockman
MAY 3, 2016
I started programming seriously during a gap year after high school. I’d read Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence , and was inspired by the notion of writing code that could understand something that I, as the code’s author, did not. I started writing a chatbot — how hard could it possibly be? I managed to build something that could talk about the weather very convincingly.
CTOvision
MAY 4, 2016
Katie Kennedy. When a company is breached, it is akin to obtaining a disease no one wants and no one wants to admit to having. With reputations and trust on the line, companies are hesitant to broadcast a breach. The Australian Crime Commission estimates that the annual cost of cyber crime to Australia is more than $1 billion in direct cost. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull recently announced the government’s $230 million Cyber Security Strategy. “We need to pay more attent
Kentik
MAY 2, 2016
In part 1 of this series we introduced Kentik Data Engine™, the backend to Kentik Detect™, which is a large-scale distributed datastore that is optimized for querying IP flow records (NetFlow v5/9, sFlow, IPFIX) and related network data (GeoIP, BGP, SNMP). We started our tour of KDE with a word about our database schema, and then used SQL queries to quantify how design features such as time-slice subqueries, results caching, and parallel dataseries help us achieve extraordinarily fast query perf
Rapid BI
MAY 2, 2016
How to write SMART Objectives and SMARTER objectives for business and personal development. Specific Stimulating Measurable Motivating Achievable Appropriate Realistic Relevant Time Timed. SMARTER objectives form part of the MBO, Managing by objectives approach made popular by Drucker. SMARTER formatted objectives are of value in Performance Management as well as project management.
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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.
Strategy Driven
MAY 6, 2016
Right now, at this very minute, there are hundreds if not thousands of brands out there heightening your customers’ expectations. Companies like Google are heightening expectations around data-driven personalization. Patagonia is spreading expectations around supply chain transparency. Periscope is creating entirely new expectations around media consumption.
CTOvision
MAY 3, 2016
Dan Cybulski. In this previous post on The Need for a Framework for Resilient Cybersecurity we highlighted that the increasing diversity and sophistication of today's IT environments is driving a need for organizations to implement a framework for resilient cybersecurity. In this post we will focus on one of the critical components of this framework: Threat Intelligence.
Coding Horror
MAY 6, 2016
Our kids have reached the age – at ages 4, 4, and 7 respectively – that taking longer trips with them is now possible without everyone losing what's left of their sanity in the process. But we still have the same problem on multiple hour trips, whether it's in a car, or on a plane – how do we bring enough stuff to keep the kids entertained without carting 5 pounds of books and equipment along, per person?
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