Tag: Miscellaneous
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The habit of calm when you're feeling frustrated
Posted on April 20, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
This article by Leo Babauta is about how to deal with getting frustrated when they feel overloaded, and then shutting down or lashing out.
Tags miscellaneous how-to software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech
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COBOL and the enterprise business programming paradigm
Posted on April 4, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
COBOL is nearly 60 years old. Jonathan Sayles examines how COBOL is still used today and it is not going anywhere soon. Besides that "As many as 75% of all rewrite projects have resulted in failure" and with the redoubtable Reuters reported that when Commonwealth Bank of Australia replaced its core COBOL platform in 2012, it took five years -- and cost $749.9 million.
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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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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10 principles for modernizing your company's technology
Posted on March 29, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
This article by Leon Cooper and Milan Vyas contains useful advice how to modernize technology in your company. Today's technology platforms are not just new versions of legacy systems. They allow you to design a completely new digital enterprise.
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous how-to
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Which programming languages use the least electricity?
Posted on March 28, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
David Cassel is author of this older but interesting article about university research into energy usage data by various programming languages. Can energy usage data tell us anything about the quality of our programming languages? Six researchers in Portugal from three different universities decided to investigate this question, ultimately releasing a paper titled "Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages."
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous
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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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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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Managing analysis workflows in geospatial data science with GNU Make
Posted on March 3, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Martà Bosch wrote this guide how to go about using Jupyter Notebooks while using iterative approach to both data analysis and software development. He will also explain how to avoid some bad practices. Many issues can be settled by choosing helpful file names, good organization, documentation and source control of the code.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning miscellaneous backend-development
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Understanding stabilising experience replay for deep multi-agent reinforcement learning
Posted on March 1, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length long
An article by Parnian Barekatain in which she describes some basic concepts in Reinforcement Learning. She also provides you with the link to Udacity's free course on Deep Learning with Pytorch.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning miscellaneous
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Single-Node Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s and Ubuntu
Posted on February 27, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Blog post by Canonical in which they do excellent job of explaining how to setup and run Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s on-top to provide a single-node Kubernetes host for development and testing.
Tags miscellaneous devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure