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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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Virtual social network IMVU raises $35M from China’s NetEase and others

TechCrunch

IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. The fresh investment will be used to fund IMVU’s product development and comes fresh off a restructuring at the company. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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Barbara Liskov Biography

The Crazy Programmer

The Liskov Substitution Principle, developed by her, states the basic nature of data abstraction and is used in type theory and object-oriented programming. Liskov won the IEEE John von Neumann Medal for fundamental contributions to programming languages in 2004. She has done great work in the field of programming languages.

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I’m thinking about developer productivity.

Xebia

Developer productivity is a hot topic right now. One conclusion we can probably all agree on is that modeling developer productivity is hard. Can we use these five ideas as a lens through which we can look at developer productivity? Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity?

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Stoked — Manifesting Innovation in Shared Threat Intelligence

Palo Alto Networks

The creative process of developing code or creating a new trick are as much about breaking barriers as they are about raising a proverbial fist and shouting expletives in triumph at the status quo. Using it can help accelerate development schedules, reduce licensing costs, and better leverage personnel.

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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

In a blog post that’s still online , he wrote: My logging software hasn’t been updated for months, and the main developer has disappeared, and I can only hope that he’s okay. Nevertheless, his post got the attention of a few other developers and the group set out to create the open source WordPress project , focused on blog publishing.

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Directus wants to democratize data across the enterprise

TechCrunch

That may sound awfully familiar, but Directus , which is announcing a $7 million Series A round led by True Ventures today, is taking a different approach to most of its competitors by combining traditional developer tools with a no-code approach to offer a highly flexible open-source data platform for its enterprise users.