Daffodil Software
DECEMBER 30, 2020
The year that it was! While 2020 may have taught us many things – our relationship with technology – was altered forever and how. Call it the new normal or wishful sundry names, digital dependency and increased screen time led to newer innovation and technological advancements.
Henrik Warne
DECEMBER 27, 2020
Choosing test values when writing unit tests is mostly guided by the need to cover all cases of the program logic. However, some values are better than others. Here are a few tips on how to pick values that make mistakes easy to spot and the tests easy to read. Plus a bonus tip on a quick way to double check your tests. . 1. Make mistakes obvious. Suppose you have a function that subtracts one number from another, then using 20 – 10 = 10 is not so great.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Global investors are running from Chinese tech stocks in the wake of the government’s crackdown on Ant Group and Alibaba, two high-flying businesses founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) that were once hailed as paragons of China’s new tech elite. Shares of major technology companies in the country have fallen sharply in recent days, with Bloomberg calculating that Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com and Meituan have lost around $200 billion in value during a handful of trading sessions.
Agile Alliance
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Look back at last year and imagine you did not run any Retrospective. What would have been different? If the answer is little or nothing, read on. I might prompt some useful questions to make your new year retrospectives even more effective. Agile Retrospectives are a well known “ceremony” that stems from the 12th Agile … Continued. The post How Did Your 2020 Agile Retrospectives Go?
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
The Crazy Programmer
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Are you looking for a list of best laptops for Graphic Designers? Well, you’re at the right place. In India, the Graphic Designing field has emerged over the last decade, and simultaneously, we have seen various laptop brands coming out with multiple options for each type of requirement. . The best graphics laptops need more than pure power. You will also have to take care of a variety of other items.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 30, 2020
Amazon just announced that it’s acquiring Wondery, the network behind podcasts including “Dirty John” and “Dr. Death.” Wondery will become part of Amazon Music, which added support for podcasts (including its own original shows) in September. At the same time, the announcement claims that “nothing will change for listeners” and that the network’s podcasts will continue to be available from “a variety of providers.” Media companies and
Agile Alliance
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The Agile Alliance blog is a popular destination for our community of practitioners. It contains the latest and greatest articles in the Agile space. A wide array of topics were popular in 2020. Thanks for reading our blog this year — join us next year for even more great how-to guides, best practices, and more! … Continued. The post Top 10 Agile Alliance Blog Posts of 2020 first appeared on Agile Alliance.
The Crazy Programmer
DECEMBER 26, 2020
A document that contains detailed answers to the questions of what, why and how – it is a Terms of Reference or TOR. If you order the design of the site or promotional materials, TK for the designer will be a guide to action and provide a complete and high-quality implementation of your ideas. 1. Start with the form. In the pursuit of ideas, we rush to set the task designer and immediately talk about content: colors, blocks, details.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 30, 2020
Two months ago, researchers at US security company AdvIntel discovered that one of the Internet’s most troublesome malware platforms, Trickbot, had started testing something rather ominous: probing UEFI firmware chips […].
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
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.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The rivalry between China’s top online learning apps has become even more intense this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest company to score a significant funding round is Zuoyebang , which announced toda y (link in Chinese) that it has raised a $1.6 billion Series E+ from investors including Alibaba Group. Other participants included returning investors Tiger Global Management, SoftBank Vision Fund, Sequoia Capital China and FountainVest Partners.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
DECEMBER 28, 2020
I’m writing this from a newly locked-down chilly California; reflecting on 2020 and all that it has taught us. Nikola Tesla, whom many tech enthusiasts worship, is supposed to have said “ our virtues and failures are inseparable, like force and matter. ” Just as how hardship and learning are intrinsically intertwined. For businesses, 2020’s learnings have mostly centered around ‘ our people ’.
The Crazy Programmer
DECEMBER 26, 2020
Working on computer science research projects can be a difficult task, partly because computer science projects are unlike research projects in any other discipline. Depending on the area of study, a research project can be defined differently. A general definition of a research project states that a research project aims to take old research (done by others) and either expand on it or create something new with the discovered research.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Read Vinay Sridhara, CTO of Balbix explain why it is important to keep track of cybersecurity trends and how Balbix is developing new-age cybersecurity tools on Security Boulevard: If you […].
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 31, 2020
I edited hundreds of stories in 2020, so choosing my favorites would be an exercise in futility. Instead, I’ve tried to gather a sample of Extra Crunch stories that taught me something new. (Which means this top 10 list betrays my ignorance, a humbling admission for a know-it-all like myself.). While narrowing down the field of candidates, I realized that we’re covering each of the topics on this list in greater depth next year.
Xebia
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The most ideal tool to do Planning Poker online in Zoom or Teams. The post How to do Planning Poker online with video conferencing? appeared first on Xebia Blog.
Confluent
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Before you say it: Yes, we are right now three days past Christmas, but technically the 12 days of Christmas refer to the days between Christmas and Epiphany, which is—I […].
CTOvision
DECEMBER 28, 2020
“Artificial intelligence will be the future, and the department … must readily and effectively adopt its best practices if the [U.S.] wants to maintain its superpower status,” says Brian Schimpf, […].
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Levin Bunz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. During my five years with Global Founders Capital, Rocket Internet’s $1 billion VC arm, I saw more than a hundred of Rocket’s incubated companies attempt to internationalize.
Xebia
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The most ideal tool to do Planning Poker online in Zoom or Teams. The post What’s the best Planning Poker in Zoom? or Teams? appeared first on Xebia Blog.
InfoQ Culture Methods
DECEMBER 31, 2020
The first article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience starts by laying a foundation for thinking about organizational resilience. It looks at what organizations can do structurally during surprising and disruptive events to establishes conditions that help engineering teams adapt in practice and real time as disruptive events occur.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Palantir Technologies, the software security and analytics provider co-founded by well-known tech investor Peter Thiel, has signed a new two-year contract with the U.K. National Health Service worth an estimated […].
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 29, 2020
If you build it, they will come, but they sure as hell are going to complain about everything until they do. There were millions of bets made in the tech industry last year. Some of those bets involved actual venture capital dollars. Others involved individual decisions on where to live: do you bet on the future of San Francisco or do you want to partake in the growth of some other startup hub?
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 31, 2020
The sudden shift to a largely distributed workforce because of the COVID-19 pandemic complicated already Byzantine security challenges at many organizations this year.
InfoQ Culture Methods
DECEMBER 30, 2020
What are the questions you should be asking and what behaviours should you be measuring within your Scrum teams in order to improve overall dependability and delivery efficiency? We explore how you can transform your Sprints into the building blocks for success and ensure you can continue to meet (and even surpass) long-term user and business expectations.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 30, 2020
Read Bob Evans explain why Oracle Corporation could beat Amazon Web Services and Snowflake in the data warehousing arena on Cloud Wars: Data-driven companies will be the winners in the […].
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Rendin , an Estonian proptech startup that wants to improve the home rental experience, including offering a no-deposit feature, has raised €1.2 million in seed funding. Backing the round is Tera Ventures, Iron Wolf Capital, Truesight Ventures, Atomico’s Angel Programme, and Startup Wise Guys. Launched in Estonia in March this year and currently expanding to Poland, Rendin operates a long-term rental platform that promises to smooth out the process between landlords and tenants.
David Walsh
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Every year I write a blog post about my goals for the year but I won’t pretend this year’s post is the same. I mean how the hell do I create realistic goals knowing what 2020 was and what 2021 inherits?! Pandemic, drastic political churn, social unrest…and none of that is related to my profession or this blog. Nevertheless, part of what has carried me through a turbulent year of leaving Mozilla and everything else has been seeking normalcy, however I can get it.
InfoQ Culture Methods
DECEMBER 30, 2020
Go was started more than a decade ago in the Engineering department from Google. It was designed with the purpose of providing a programming language easy to learn that will allow to develop Google's systems at the next level. In the past decade, the language became more and more stable, currently being used for implementing some of the most popular tools on the web (Kubernetes, Terraform etc.
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