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CIO50 Australia: Team of the Year 2024 finalists

CIO

The finalists for the Team of the Year categories in this year’s CIO50 Australia have been announced. Part of Foundry’s global CIO awards program, the awards recognise IT teams that exemplify excellence in specific areas. These categories include the Culture award, acknowledging teams that foster a positive and innovative work culture; the Customer Value award, commending teams that prioritise delivering value to customers; and the Talent award, recognising teams that excel in attracting, develo

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Get a Microsoft Office for Windows license for $35 - the lowest price of the year

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Pay just once and get a lifetime license to the Microsoft Office 2021 app suite (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) on your PC for 84% off right now (there's a deal for a Mac version, too).

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CodeSOD: A Clever Base

The Daily WTF

Mark worked with the kind of programmer who understood the nuances and flexibility of PHP on a level like none other. This programmer also wanted to use all of those features. This resulted in the Base class, from which all other classes descend. Mark, for example, was trying to understand how the status field on a Widget got set. So, he pulled up the Widget code: class Widget extends Base { public function getOtherWidgets ( ) { return $this ->widgetPart->otherWidgets;} public function get

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iPhone 16 vs. iPhone 15: What to consider if you're upgrading to Apple's base model

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The latest iPhone 16 improves on last year's model by introducing AI features and a series of hardware changes, but should you take the leap?

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Engineering excellence: the art of doing small things really well

Abhishek Tiwari

Recently I have been reading Art of Leadership, The: Small Things, Done Well by Michael Lopp. This book is an excellent read and it covers small things that you can do to build trust and to become an authentic and true leader to your team at different stages of your leadership journey. Michael use stories from his tenure as manager at Netscape , as director at Apple , and as executive at Slack to capture and distill a list of wisdom to help anyone be effective at management and leadership.

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Every iPhone model that can receive Apple's iOS 18 update (and which ones won't)

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

The upcoming software version features AI enhancements to popular apps, better home screen customization, improved Siri, and more.

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Retrospective thoughts

Marcusoft

I’ve just attended a discussion about process improvements in general and retrospectives specifically, together with a few ScrumMasters. I wanted to take the time to jot down some of the good ideas that popped up as we talked. Blocked is status of a work item - not people Being blocked is status of a card (work item) - not a person. I’ve yet to meet a person who, when blocked on one work item, just sits down and does nothing.

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Top Five Platform Engineering Books for 2024

Daniel Bryant

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS Platform strategy, Team Topologies, IaC, SRE, metrics and more! The Syntasso team is often asked for platform engineering book recommendations at conferences, via social media, and in Slack DMs. There’s typically a lot of agreement within the team around the best platform engineering books, but the ranking can be controversial! We’ve pooled together our collective top five recommendations for this blog post.

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The funnel of relevance

Abhishek Tiwari

Anyone who has worked with advanced search systems knows the intricacy of boolean operators. AND, OR, NOT - these seemingly simple words become powerful tools in the hands of search specialists. Add in proximity operators like WITH and NEAR, throw in some parentheses for nesting, and you've got yourself a query that can pinpoint exactly what you're looking for. or so we thought.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Get 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $36 - here's how

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Try or gift Xbox Game Pass for three months for 28% off and play over 100 games including Starfield, Forza Motorsport, and Football Manager 2024 on your Xbox, PC, or mobile device.

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Engineering excellence is how NASA flawlessly landed Curiosity on Mars

Abhishek Tiwari

We've all experienced the frustration of our smartphones crashing or freezing at the worst possible moment. So how is it that NASA can land a rover on Mars, millions of miles away, with software that works flawlessly? The answer lies in a combination of factors that set space-grade software apart from your average app. Let's dive deep into the world of aerospace software engineering and uncover the secrets behind NASA's incredible reliability.