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Amazon expanding ‘upskill’ training for software developer roles to workers outside of company

GeekWire

Amazon announced Tuesday that it is expanding one of its so-called “upskilling” programs to people outside of the company who are interested in acquiring training for roles in software engineering. Building on that coursework foundation and graduate success, Amazon is now bringing the program to students outside Amazon.

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Enterprise software developers continue to use flawed code in apps

Network World

Companies that develop enterprise applications download over 200,000 open-source components on average every year and one in every 16 of those components has security vulnerabilities.

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Which Government, Non-Profit and NGO Have Big Data/CDH Lessons Learned To Share?

CTOvision

If you are in or know people in government, non-profits or NGO’s that have leveraged Hadoop in service to missions please nominate them for recognition as part of the 2014 Data Impact Awards presented by Cloudera. 2014 Data Impact Awards. Nominations are open through September 12, 2014. Presented by Cloudera. Drew Conway.

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CDH Users: If you have done impactful things with data please share how what and why

CTOvision

The 2014 Data Impact award, presented by Cloudera, is a great way of helping the community learn best practices by highlighting mission-focused solutions. 2014 Data Impact Awards. Nominations are open through September 12, 2014. The 2014 Data Impact Awards highlight achievements in the following areas: BUSINESS IMPACT.

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A Comprehensive Guide to eBook SDK installation

Kitaboo

SDKs are software development kits consisting of lines of codes, tools, and features which developers can use to build a software platform. To explain with an example, to develop an Android app on a Java platform, you will need a Java Development Kit. What are SDKs? Evaluate the quality of the tools.

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Seattle is top U.S. city in global talent ranking of software engineering hotspots

GeekWire

Founded in 2014, Karat is ranked No. Companies receive feedback on the top qualified applicants, based on Karat’s due diligence, as well as insights about their hiring process. 15 even though there are 360,300 engineers. 16 on the GeekWire 200 ranked index of Pacific Northwest startups.

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Twitter CEO partners with Jay-Z on $23M bitcoin development fund

The Verge

The CEO said development will initially be focused on teams in Africa and India, but that he and Jay-Z plan to give “zero direction” to the plans. ?trust trust is currently looking for three board members, with an application form noting its mission is to “make bitcoin the internet’s currency.”.