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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

In 2001, Alan founded a non-profit organization, Viewpoints Research Institute, in California, dedicated to learning, children, and advanced software development to improve “powerful ideas education” Kay and his Viewpoints group worked on various projects at Applied Minds in Glendale, California. In 2004, the Kyoto prize.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO

As Dan Moore writes in his “ Letters to a new Developer ” blog, “Even as a new developer, you’re constantly making small creative decisions (naming a variable, for example). This is part of what makes software development so fulfilling and fun.”

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Top 21 Selenium Automation Testing Blogs To Look Out For!

Dzone - DevOps

If you are a web tester then somewhere down the road you will have to come across Selenium, an open-source test automation framework that has been on boom ever since its launch in 2004.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO

Participants also take part in a paid “applied learning internship” that teaches students how to write code and the skills to become a software developer. Girl Develop It. Girl Develop It offers web and software development courses at affordable rates in a “judgement-free zone.” Ada’s List.

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Getting Stuff Done Days in Apiumhub: R&D in software development

Apiumhub

Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well. Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD).

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I’m thinking about developer productivity.

Xebia

Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity? ” When I think about software development activities and their opportunity costs, I think of the choices we make on a product level. A development team can be very productive in terms of output, e.g., delivering several features quickly.

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Chaddha From Mayfield Fund On The Cognitive Economy

Crunchbase News

Software developers have long touted the ability to automate dull, repetitive work. An investor since 2004, he witnessed the social, mobile and cloud computing waves that engineered new companies. The biggest impact of AI that he has seen so far is in customer support, product development, and search and discovery.