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LA Number Two Tech Employment Area In Nation, Says Report

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The CompTIA's study includes not just workers in the technology industry itself, but those working IT support, network engineering, software development and related roles. The group's study also includes both professional working for technology companies, but others in organizations in other industry sectors.

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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

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Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. The financing will be used to help students finance their Entity Academy tuition, which typically costs $15,000.

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What SAAS Companies Need to Know About Network Management?

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A recent study of IT professionals reported that over 30% of their workplace environment is virtualized. We’ve even created an acronym for these kinds of services: software as a service (SAAS). Usually, a company provides subscription based access to subscribers allowing these subscribers to use software in the cloud.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

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He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them. Cham studied early in his career how to hold the microphone, how to project his voice, how to watch the audience and pay attention to what interested them. There are many analogies here for software development. I study it every day.&#.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

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years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. I had two goals in mind: I wanted to be even more technical than I already was as a developer (I wanted to work on cutting edge stuff, which back then was the Internet – pre World Wide Web browsers) and I wanted to live & work in Europe. True story.].

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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So, I came back into the ecosystem, started attending the game and developer conferences, and really started asking the hard questions to executives in the industry, and figuring out where the underserved areas were in the industry. He was just a friend from church, and we actually connected at church through bible study.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. How do you keep an audience as a blogger and on the network of StackExchange?