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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. 79 entry fee.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Web Application Penetration Testing: Features, Importance, and Tips

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Here are some resources that will help you get started with web application penetration testing: OWASP: The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a global community that develops open source security tools and provides information about security vulnerabilities.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. Drupal works at all levels of software development. Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

Then he started a company called PostEra, which uses machine learning to identify promising compounds for new drug development. They've collected and sorted thousands of possible compounds, and now have multiple drugs in development in a lab in the UK. As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. John Kieti is a major figure in the city’s startup community. Hersman also co-founded Ushahidi, an open source software firm.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software). .); Why do I say that?

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Why You’d Be Insane To Skip College For Startup Dreams

ReadWriteStart

You do not have to go to college to be an entrepreneur and you do not have to go to college to develop software. MongoDB’s vice president of business development, Vijay Vijayasankar, also points out the networking advantage of having college classmates: @mjasay college is the first/best professional networking opportunity.