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

Women Entrepreneurs Can

SQL injection, Cross-site scripting (XSS), and directory traversal are some of the most prevalent web application flaws that may be exploited. It has protection against SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other frequent assaults. This includes knowing what software and applications are used, as well as the network topology.

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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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The art of hiring a data scientist

Version One Ventures

When looking for a data scientist, the default approach for many companies is to go after software engineers with a strong interest in statistics, data mining and machine learning. However, drawing math-loving engineers from the tech talent pool isn’t a sustainable strategy. Finding a data scientist is hard.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. there is much value in learning SQL and either Python or R.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Software Engineering. Can do basic database administration, performance optimization, index optimization, write advanced select queries, able to replace cursor usage with relational sql, understands how data is stored internally, understands how indexes are stored internally, understands how databases can be mirrored, replicated etc.

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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

He then dissects a simple SQL query ( DELETE FROM some_table WHERE id = 1234; ) and gives several quick reasons why performance could vary widely when this query is executed. One of our software engineers wrote all the code. This turns out to be especially valuable for performance & optimization work.&#.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. Another ironic thing is that I am embarrassed that I spent a few years of my life developing software in PHP.

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