Related Content
Finding the Right People to Manage Your Programmers Managers are often the ones responsible for removing impediments, but finding people who are good at managing programmers is difficult. Steve Berczuk explores why quality engineering managers are hard to come by. |
||
Amazon's Anticipatory Shipping Model Explained Amazon made headlines recently with its new patent for an anticipatory shipping model. The model predicts what users would likely buy, when they would buy it, and where they would need it. Rajini Padmanaban examines Amazon's anticipatory shipping model and what it means for predictive analytics. |
||
Mind the Gender Gap: Getting Women into Computer Science Careers Today, just a quarter of all Americans in computer-related occupations are women. Why is this field with such a promising outlook attracting so few female candidates? This story takes a look at what's deterring women and why it's important for everyone that they be represented in the tech workforce. |
||
What’s Next? Teach Your Preschooler to Code! The teach-kids-to-code movement appears to be gaining traction. Now preschoolers can become one of the cool kids and learn coding concepts in a fun way—without sitting in front of a screen. A board game that promises to “teach your kids to code before they learn to read” is being released soon. |
||
What Commit Messages Say about Developers and Test Automators Commit messages say a lot about the developers and test automation professionals who writes them—or who doesn’t write them at all. Trivial on the surface, the presence and substance of a commit message can indicate how forward-thinking a person is, which may indicate bigger things about the code. |
||
What the Olympics Can Teach Us about Managing Software Projects Observers at the Winter Olympics in Sochi say that for the most part the opening ceremony was glorious—except for one glitch that left the organizers embarrassed. This incident gives us an opportunity to learn some lessons about managing software projects. |
||
What's Going On with Data Security? It seems like every day we are hearing about more security breaches. Whether it is Target's losing credit card information of more than 110 million Americans or Yahoo’s data breach, in which the company lost user passwords and usernames, one has to wonder what is going on with data security. |
||
Google Issues First Call for DevArtists Like beauty, isn’t art in the eye of the beholder? It really should come as no surprise that Google views coding as the new artistic frontier. Google has issued a Call for Artists for a new type of art created with code: DevArt. |