Coding Horror
JULY 24, 2016
Every geek goes through a phase where they discover emulation. It's practically a rite of passage. I think I spent most of my childhood – and a large part of my life as a young adult – desperately wishing I was in a video game arcade. When I finally obtained my driver's license, my first thought wasn't about the girls I would take on dates, or the road trips I'd take with my friends.
Change Starts Here
JULY 11, 2016
The rumors about change can start the instant it’s communicated. A cost management initiative is announced, and suddenly people start speculating to each other what the impact will be – we will lose perks, stop travel, or lose our jobs. A new strategy? The company is going under, and they’re just not telling us. A new system? Another department implemented it last month, and they hate it.
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NeverFriday
JULY 31, 2016
In your software development or IT career, you are going to eventually get to a point where you do not quite know what to do next, or how to get to the next stage of your career. A tech career coach can give you ideas and guide you to the next stage in your career. It can be a challenge to figure out what sorts of projects you want to work on next, or what kind of work environment would best suit you.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 20, 2016
I run into them in every company I work with. Solid managers with real contributions. They work hard, they’re incredibly loyal, and they’ve been on the succession planning list forever. Much of the time they even have an MBA…AND they’re stuck. The promotions come and go. They’ve heard the pep talk so many times they can recite it in their sleep. 5 Behaviors That Keep You From Getting Promoted.
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General Leadership
JULY 22, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “An idealist is a person who helps other people be prosperous.” Henry Ford. Is idealism dead or alive in America? According to Merriam Webster, idealism is the attitude of a person who believes that it is possible to live according to a very high standard of behavior and honesty.
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N2Growth Blog
JULY 21, 2016
Whenever you begin business transformation work, it’s important to establish a common vocabulary that everyone in the organization can grasp and incorporate into their respective vocabularies. It improves communication and encourages engagement and buy-in. Here are the 20 most essential terms that you’ll want your team to understand and to use.
Change Starts Here
JULY 27, 2016
Change readiness. What does that mean? For the longest time, I avoided using that term because it felt like a chicken-or-egg kind of situation. If people were fully “ready” for change, then they would’ve already changed. And you can’t measure readiness before introducing change, because the mere act of measuring would in fact introduce change.
Toptal
JULY 27, 2016
One of the virtues of remote work is the freedom to travel. However, housing can be a challenge. Let's look at a group of housing alternatives that apply to different types of remote workers.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 7, 2016
A Winning Well post with David Dye. In a recent Winning Well interview, Bob Morris asked “You talk about Winning Well, but what does it mean to lose well? David and I both laughed the kind of half-hearted chuckle that comes only after enough distance from the pain. And as timing would have it, I’ve recently been helping both of my children process through disappointing losses on the college political front and the baseball field.
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As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
General Leadership
JULY 15, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Airmen and Soldiers load into the back of a mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle Dec. 11 at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jason Epley). “When things go wrong in your command, start wading for the reason in increasing larger concentric circles around your own desk.” – General Bruce D.
Erik Bernhardsson
JULY 8, 2016
Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found that at some point, quite early, it’s worth just giving up. This isn’t a proof that the subway doesn’t run on time – in fact it might actually proves that the subway runs really well. The numbers indicate that it’s not worth waiting after 10 minutes, but it’s a rare event and usually involves something extraordinary like a multi-hour delay.
Terry Starbucker
JULY 31, 2016
“Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”. ~Mary Oliver. I was one of the lucky people who got to know and work with Dr. Kathy Cramer, who passed away on July 13th, 2016 due to complications from a cancer she fought with great bravery and tenacity. I reached out to her in 2014 after I read an interview she had done with the Washington Post.
N2Growth Blog
JULY 11, 2016
Self-directed learners, or autodidacts, possess the capability to chart their futures in ways that can give them an advantage over their less ambitious contemporaries. I should know, I am one! Back in the day, I didn’t have the Internet to support me. Yes, I did it the old fashioned way — I bought books and read them. It’s laughable by today’s standards, but, back in 1988, I spent countless hours in the New York City Library doing the research needed to complete my fir
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Toptal
JULY 5, 2016
Memory issues in programs can be quite frustrating whether you’re the user or the developer attempting to solve the problem. In Ruby, the garbage collector plays a vital role in managing your program's memory so that you can focus on other important things. However, it is often possible to overwhelm the garbage collector or end up with sneaky resources that cannot be freed, which can lead to all sorts of memory issues.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 5, 2016
David Dye and I do truly strive to lead by example. So I wasn’t shocked the other day when my Winning Well co-author leveraged a practice straight out of chapter 20, thanking me for something I’d done to promote our Winning Well mission. And then, hearkening back to chapter 7 (accountability), I laughed and said, “If I were really a good co-author I would have done __.” (it really doesn’t matter what this is, as I will here pull a Scarlett Ohara , and be sure to wo
General Leadership
JULY 11, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”. John Quincy Adams. The U.S. Air Force just installed its 21 st Chief of Staff, General David Goldfein.
CTOvision
JULY 20, 2016
Roger Hockenberry. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down for a regular breakfast with Ed Scheidt , former head of CIA’s Cryptographic Center and the designer of the cyrpto systems used in the Kryptos Sculpture at the Agency. He and I get together and typically it’s a free-ranging discussion that covers a lot of topics, math, current events, technology and life in general.
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Terry Starbucker
JULY 17, 2016
Want to change the world? There’s nothing to it. This morning I was in a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas (where I’m attending a wedding later this evening) and as I was flipping through the channels on the TV looking for a news update I stumbled across something else that couldn’t escape my attention. It was a man in a purple suit and a tan top hat, singing to a bunch of kids in a chocolate factory…… “If you want to view paradise.
N2Growth Blog
JULY 14, 2016
Think well. Write well. Do well. Those three words distill S.C. Gwynne’s book jacket endorsement of Sebastian Junger’s newest book, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. Gwynne advises us to read Tribe for three reasons: “the clarity of (Junger’s) thought, the elegance of his prose, and the provocativeness of this chosen subject.”. As one who has written more than his fair share of book blurbs, I can attest that when it comes to insight I typically look inside a book rather than to its back jacket
Toptal
JULY 18, 2016
In the realm of enterprise software, especially for software provided as a service, multitenancy ensures that data is truly isolated for each client within a shared instance of software. Among its numerous benefits, multitenancy can greatly simplify release management and cut down costs. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer André William Prade Hildinger shows us how Hibernate, a persistence framework for Java, makes implementing a multitenant Java EE application easier than it sou
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 14, 2016
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival gives tips about taking a break from work. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about productivity-enhancing workspaces. There are two ways to participate…either submit a blog post on the topic, or your 1-2 sentence answer to the question.
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General Leadership
JULY 8, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.”.
Wolk Software Engineering
JULY 27, 2016
Most of the solutions for dependency injection (DI) in React components are based on context. The famous connect function and the Provider there use the context. However, the React development team recommends avoiding the usage of the context. In this article we will learn how we can use InversifyJS as a context-free solution for DI in React applications.
Terry Starbucker
JULY 3, 2016
Washington Crossing The Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, MMA-NYC, 1851. “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages” – George Washington. I was never a great student of American History and the Revolutionary War when I was younger, only learning the most basic details of what occurred 240 years ago to secure the Independence of the United States of America.
Women on Business
JULY 18, 2016
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Toptal
JULY 20, 2016
For remote workers, it is essential to design a working environment that allows for a balance between life, fun, and getting work done. Learn some strategies for designing the perfect remote setting.
CTOvision
JULY 21, 2016
Sunil Thomas. In the second article of how CTO’s can create a framework for enterprises to adopt mobile for growth we look at one of the early decisions to be made - that is choosing to build native apps or adopt the responsive web. In case you missed it, the previous article in the series discusses why a CTO makes or breaks your enterprise mobile strategy and discusses briefly the decisions that need to be taken within an enterprise to embrace mobile as a key part of its growth.
General Leadership
JULY 1, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Genius is not enough; we need to get the job done.” Carol S. Dweck. The term “mindset” in the context of business typically invokes images of all-star athletes going for the gold or maybe thoughts of positive mental attitude – PMA – the self-development concept first introduced in 1937 by Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich.
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