Latest Interviews
Webvolution 2015
Javascript, Accessibility and Identity in Our Ever-Evolving World.
IaaS and the API Economy
Everything and everyone will be API-enabled: This Axiom highlights the fact that almost every network connected endpoint is becoming an API that can be invoked and read by other software systems. This transformation, when seen device-by-device or step-by-step, seems logical – perhaps even mundane.
Bringing the ‘Soft’ Back Into Software
In software development, we sometimes start from ground zero on a really positive, upbeat note and everything is flowing. Everybody is excited and the team chemistry is awesome. But then quickly we come down to a grinding halt for any reason, affecting everyone. What can we do to overcome this?
Ask Harder Questions: Data Mining
Data mining and machine learning became so popular that now almost every CS student knows about classifiers, clustering, statistical NLP ... etc. So it seems that finding data miners is not a hard thing nowadays. The hard part is to come up with harder questions.
Teach Your Kids to Code
Code is the Language of their Future. Will your Kids be Fluent? Teaching kids basic programming and problem solving using Python, the powerful language used in college courses and by tech companies like Google and IBM.
Ethics in Software Development
Maybe you can build stuff. But.. should you? Where should you, as software developers, draw the line? Shall you build software with the common good in mind and ignore the potential consequences of releasing such tools to the world?
Career Success in an Era of Endless Innovation
In today's volatile business landscape, adaptability and creativity are more crucial than ever. It is no longer possible-or even desirable-to learn one set of job skills and to work your way up the ladder.
How to Create (and Keep) a Cool Company Culture
Many smart software company principals, founders and CEOs nowadays only work with “…people who love with what they do and are motivated by advancement”, as well as driven by a great company’s culture. Karim is one of them.
How to Fund Mexican Technology Companies
Jorge S. Olson walks us through the many ins and outs on how to fund Mexican tech companies on the verge of growing, or wanting to.
Strategy and Execution in Marketing for Startups
in terms of marketing, whether you’re a start-up or a mature company, the problems are the same. In fact, if anything, start-ups have a little bit of an advantage because “…when you are a start-up, you pretty much are clear that you don’t have all the systems and processes in place."
Closing the Gap Between Sales and Engineering
Robert Graham knows a thing or two about engineering. But then again, he also knows sales. He is all about growth… and a rubyist. Pure numerical terror. Robert spent some time as Google and Oracle as a software engineer after working on a Computer Science PhD.
