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code-for-a-living July 19, 2021

Privacy is an afterthought in the software lifecycle. That needs to change.

The key to combining privacy and innovation is baking it into the SDLC. Analogous to application security's (AppSec) upstream shift into the development cycle, privacy belongs at the outset of development, not as an afterthought. Here's why.

Cillian Kieran

code-for-a-living July 14, 2021

Getting started with… Python

Here's a collection of resources on how to get started using Python.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living July 12, 2021

Learning from the real world: A hardware hobby project

If you think your software experience will let you build a hardware project easily, you might be a bit too ambitious. It's very different from software.

Tomi Mester

code-for-a-living July 7, 2021

The unexpected benefits of mentoring others

At some point in your career, you may well be advised to seek out a mentor. However, the benefits of being a mentor are often overlooked.

Matt Studdert

code-for-a-living July 5, 2021

Best practices for writing code comments

While there are many resources to help programmers write better code—such as books and static analyzers—there are few for writing better comments. While it's easy to measure the quantity of comments in a program, it's hard to measure the quality, and the two are not necessarily correlated. A bad comment is worse than no comment at all. Here are some rules to help you achieve a happy medium.

Ellen Spertus

code-for-a-living July 3, 2021

Level Up: Linear Regression in Python – Part 7

In the seventh lesson of the series we’ll discuss some methods for comparing linear regression models. In the process, we’ll learn about the problem of overfitting and investigate some of the pros and cons of various evaluation methods (such as R-squared, adjusted R-squared, log likelihood, AIC, and BIC). We’ll also continue to practice our Python…

Sophie Sommer

code-for-a-living June 30, 2021

Using collections to make your SQL access easier and more efficient

To overcome SQL limitations, many companies introduced programming languages for building applications that interface with SQL databases—for example PL/SQL from Oracle. PL/SQL applications can be inefficient. But you can streamline this interface using data type collections, making PL/SQL applications faster and more efficient.

Theodoros ‘Theo’ Karasavvas

code-for-a-living June 28, 2021

What makes a great IT consultant – and how you can become one

7N is an international freelance agency that has been connecting the best IT consultants with leading organizations around the world for more than 30 years. Here's the five qualities that make the perfect consultant.

Pawel Zdziech, Recruitment and Communications Manager, 7N

code-for-a-living June 26, 2021

Level Up: Linear Regression in Python – Part 6

In the sixth lesson of the series we’ll discuss some methods for data transformation to improve a linear regression model. In the process, we’ll learn to simulate data with known properties, review some of the assumptions of linear regression, and continue to practice our Python skills. Here are some Stack Overflow questions related to the…

Sophie Sommer

community June 25, 2021

Unpacking the user research behind Collectives™

We spent over a hundred hours in 1-on-1 interviews and collected thousands of survey responses to better understand what our community and customers wanted to see in this product. This feedback shaped everything from naming to moderation, and helped us evolve and iterate the concept into what it is today.

Ben Popper and Mithila Fox

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company June 23, 2021

Announcing the launch of Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

We're thrilled to be launching this new product with Google Cloud and Go.

Teresa Dietrich