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TNW Profile: Credictive founder Ela Madej on being ‘a woman in tech’, Rainbows and Unicorns

The Next Web

Emails from a client or tweets from strangers saying you’re doing something right are invaluable. Both my parents and my sister are software engineers … I actually have female co-founders in my companies – an amazing developer & manager Agata (also included in that Top 100 list) and Socha, an architect-turned-designer.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

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When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. How does the page respond to being emailed? Well, we are the Nth biggest news service in Poland so I think he knows what he is doing.

Mobile 101
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Fog Creek Compensation

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Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.