Tag: Leadership and career
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Agile is not enough
Posted on April 8, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The interesting piece from pens of Will Poindexter and Steve Berez about addressing architectural rigidity, closing talent gaps, and adopting a product mindset in order to realize Agile's power.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering frontend-and-mobile
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Why isn't your current approach to scaling Agile working?
Posted on March 30, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
This lengthy article from the pens of Cesario Ramos and Kurt Bittner adresses the trouble many companies face when trying to sclae their agility. Even organizations who have agile success in isolated pockets have trouble scaling that agility to the broader organization. The challenges express themselves in familiar patterns.
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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The data science behind Natural Language Processing
Posted on March 22, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
John Thuma published this piece about the data science behind Natural Language Processing (NLP). Human communication is one of the most fascinating attributes of being sentient. We communicate in a variety of ways including speech and written symbols.
Tags miscellaneous data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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The science of drawing and memory
Posted on March 21, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Interesting article by Youki Terada about experience of experts in the science of memory -- how people encode, retain, and recall information. It's long been known that drawing something helps a person remember it.
Tags miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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Monitor your garage door with Pi Zero W
Posted on March 16, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Bob Murphy published this detailed guide how to build a garage door monitor with your RaspberryPi. There are lots of garage door monitor projects on hackster.io and other Maker sites. Many are single-purpose solutions. The author wanted a project that would be extensible, to build on the skills learned for future IOT projects.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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Technical Debt: What it is, why it's important, and how to prioritize it
Posted on March 15, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It's easy to think of tech debt as the monster in the codebase. But what does it actually consist of, and how can you manage it? Jennifer McGrath helps you to find out.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering
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JavaScript-Free Frontend
Posted on March 12, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Matt Reyer from Slimvoice -- a webapp without JavaScript is a series where he documents how he rebuilt his app, Slimvoice, using as little JavaScript as possible. He's tried to present JavaScript alternatives and encourage those who reach for a SPA for every project to give it a second thought.
Tags miscellaneous software-engineering leadership-and-career frontend-and-mobile
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Three arguments for why you should write more (as developer)
Posted on February 22, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Posted by Marek Zaluski, this is a short list of arguments to persuade any developer to write more. He does not mean write more code. He means write more for humans.
Tags miscellaneous software-engineering leadership-and-career
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How to make Python wait
Posted on February 14, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Posted by Miguel Grinberg this article explains various (in)correct ways of implementing threads for time when it is necessary to pause the running of the program until some external condition occurs.
Tags backend-development software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Benchmarking Angular, React and Vue for small web applications
Posted on February 10, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A benchmark and comparison article by Abhay Srivastav about comparing 3 main JavaScript frameworks for small web projects. These are Angular, React and Vue. In the article author takes more practical approach to compare these 3 frameworks by creating a simple application using each of them.
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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Programming paradigms for dummies: what every programmer should know
Posted on February 8, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Adrian Colyer published this review on a chapter by Peter Van Roy mapping out the space of programming language designs. This chapter gives an introduction to all the main programming paradigms, their underlying concepts, and the relationships between them... We give a taxonomy of about 30 useful programming paradigms and how they are related. Link to 49 pages long resource included.
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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Good engineering practices while working solo
Posted on February 1, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
An article by Shalvah about time when you got to go it alone and how do you make the most out of it. And while much of product development involves being able to manage or work with the rest of the team, it's equally important to develop good practices while working solo.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd miscellaneous