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Freelance Village Discussions (7)
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The *other* jobs mailing listFloridians and folks looking for work in the SE: there's a free jobs mailing list with hundreds of members. I've had it going for nearly 15… Started by Michael Levin |
0 | Apr 24, 2015 |
Starting and Running Your Own Company, by Matt RaibleMy good bud Matt just published an article about his business and I think it's worth sharing: http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/how_to_set… Started by Michael Levin |
0 | Mar 3, 2015 |
How to Get Business using Social MediaYou can use the social API's to get new customers. One way is with Twitter's API. You can filter tweets for keywords and then friend the tw… Started by Michael Levin |
0 | Dec 9, 2012 |
Cornbread and ContractingCornbread and contracting. They have a lot in common. What do I mean? Well, you never go in empty handed. That's for starters. How… Started by Michael Levin |
0 | Jun 7, 2011 |
People's Guide to ContractingI've started a handbook called "The People's Guide to Contracting". It's a work in progress, so you can check here from time to time if… Started by Michael Levin |
0 | May 24, 2011 |
Freelancing - You Better Believe I'm Multi-Lingual!There's a new book out called Programming F# What's F#? Why should you care? What's it gonna do for you? Well, here's what you get when… Started by Michael Levin |
0 | Oct 15, 2009 |
Freelancing in a tough marketIt's not easy these days to be a freelancer. Many layoffs have resulted in the market being full of well qualified job seekers. You *can* s… Started by Michael Levin |
0 | Jun 20, 2009 |
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
Notes
Welcome to Codetown!
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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InfoQ Reading List
Presentation: Continuous Delivery Is Not Possible Without Pair Programming: Lessons From SpareBank 1 and SINTEF in Norway
Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom and Ola Hast unravel the powerful synergy between pair programming and continuous delivery. They explain how this shift allowed their team to abandon traditional hurdles like excessive WIP, lengthy pull requests, and multiple test environments, leading to ultra-fast deployments, superior code quality, and a highly cohesive, efficient engineering team.
By Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom, Ola HastAWS Lambda Gains Native Avro and Protobuf Support for Kafka Events with Schema Registry Integration
Lambda now natively supports Apache Avro and Protobuf events, streamlining Kafka event processing - an enhancement that eliminates the need for custom deserialization, automates schema validation and filtering, and optimizes costs through efficient event handling. Integration with AWS Glue and Confluent registries simplifies development, allowing cleaner data consumption and enhanced scalability.
By Steef-Jan WiggersArticle: Building Strategic Influence as a Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager
To increase your impact and grow your career, you need to be involved in conversations that happen at a greater scope than the scope you have in your current role. Being involved will give you influence over this, help you direct and maximise your impact, and also allow you to bring better context to your day job, and to those working around you.
By Mark AllenPodcast: From Code to Strategy: Drive Organizational Impact Through Strategic Conversations and User Focus
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mark Allen about how engineers can expand their influence through strategic conversations, user-focused development practices, and excellence in incident management. Mark emphasizes the importance of building cross-organizational relationships and working on meaningful problems with positive impact.
By Mark AllenMicroProfile 7.1 Delivers Updates to Their Telemetry and Open API Specifications
Ten months after the release of MicroProfile 7.0, the MicroProfile Working Group has released version 7.1 of MicroProfile to the Java community. This new release features continued alignment with Jakarta EE 10 and updates to two community-developed core APIs.
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