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How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time

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And you thought being a software engineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud , that developers spend almost 20% of their time.

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How To Fix Obamacare

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Many years ago I read Fredrick Brooks iconic book on software engineering – The Mythical Man-Month. One of his key messages is that adding additional software engineers to an already late project will just delay things more. We know a lot more about building complex software than we did in 1980.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

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In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. Software was expensive. Engineers, however, were relatively cheap. ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” No Problem! You name it.”

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

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Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The So Cal engineering gap? I’ve been able to study the Southern Cal software dev scene as an insider for over 2 years now. But, there is a serious gap in the discipline, number of developers and community around real software development here. Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline.

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

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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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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

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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.