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It’s Not Over Yet: Stories of an Aging Software Developer

Xebia

At some point, I looked back and realized I had become an IT architect. So, I decided to go back to software development. I learned to never take a story at face value. There’s always a way to make it smaller or better suited to solve a real need. Easy to see. But what about a software developer?

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Edward Jones’ CIO Frank LaQuinta plays to win

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At the enterprise level, these principles are required to: lead transformation; future-proof our firm; deliver extraordinary experiences to stakeholders; simplify and modernize all that we do; maximize culture, talent, and opportunity for all; and create a place of belonging where bringing our whole self makes us all better.

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What I Have Changed My Mind About in Software Development

Henrik Warne

Every time I came back to code where I wrote a comment, I am happy that I took the time to do it. I wrote a blog post called Unit Testing Private Methods , where I argued that you might as well make them package private, so you can easily write tests for them. I was sold, and never looked back. Using a debugger.

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CIO Diane Schwarz on the power of professional ecosystems

CIO

Often, they discover that to get to the next level, they have to strengthen their network by making it multidimensional. Diane Schwarz knows it as well as anyone: You can’t climb to the C-suite alone. It takes an ecosystem of colleagues, clients, and partners — all of whom help you navigate what is often a nonlinear path.

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Don’t worry about VC’s returns if you can exit your startup early

TechCrunch

Letting people down is never pleasant, but that’s how it can feel to sell a startup early. Will investors be disappointed that your company never fulfilled its destiny? Well, yes, but only to a certain extent, and that’s where portfolio math comes into play. In VC Land, 1 > 10. “Unicorns are for show.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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The CIO should be talking with the CEO and this should be collective decision making,” adds David McKee, who has seen firsthand the havoc that a lack of alignment with the C-suite can wreak on operations. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.” in June, 2022, to 3.7%

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Cities, cycles and San Francisco’s ‘return’

TechCrunch

. “San Francisco is back!” ” “It never left.” To me, San Francisco, despite all the transience and frustration it’s been known to be associated with, feels like it never left. Maybe I’m just lucky, but I feel like the SF that is back feels more grounded, less boastful. It’s been felt.