They say women are disempowered in our society.
On April 9, 2013, we celebrated the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
This day marks how far in 2013 women must work to earn what men earned in 2012.
That is APRIL 9th, over three months into the year.
Women in the United States are paid on average 77 cents for every dollar paid to men [ 1 ].
Women currently hold 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions and in the Fortune 1000, a whopping 4.5 percent of CEO positions are held by women [ 2 ].
- till's blog: Women in Tech
- New Relic: My Adventures at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
- DevChix: RailsBridge Open Workshop Project
- Concentration de studioConcentration de studio: "I question whether she was using intentionally murky language because she is a very prominent,..."
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…about people in any kind of organization—for-profit, non-profit, governmental, education, startup, Fortune 1000—who are responsible for developing products and services beyond the edge of what your organization can know through its or its competitors' existing experience.
Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. In more established places, they may have nearly any job title. And in any organization, they can be technical, but they can fill other roles …
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- New Relic: Why Lean Startups Love New Relic
…12 Months with Half of Private Chef™ Customers in Fortune 500
Opscode Joins with IBM and Microsoft to Deliver Opscode Chef as the Cloud Automation Platform for the Coded Business SAN FRANCISCO - April 25, 2013 - Opscode ® , the foundation for the coded business, is hosting its second annual user conference, # ChefConf 2013 , beginning today in San Francisco. A sell-out crowd of more than 700 attendees has gathered at the Hyatt Embarcadero for …
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Cooking Solo with Chef
- Momoro Machine: Getting started with Chef -- A tutorial
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Using Chef for DevOps Innovations
- Rails Dog: Generating Thousands of PDFs on EC2 with Ruby
- ZURB: Photos of the Team
- paperplanes: Conference Talks You Should Be Watching
…began with identifying a trend we're seeing happen throughout the the business landscape. From Fortune 100 enterprises to Web 2.0 startups, Information Technology is becoming the primary delivery platform for goods and services and the primary means of engaging consumers. The real-world examples are right in front of us - mobile banking, e-commerce, online insurance claims, media and entertainment, the list grows daily. And so, organizations of all sizes are now looking to move IT from …
- New Relic: Removing the Operating System Barrier with Platform as a Service (PAAS) - a guest post from Adron Hall
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Cooking Solo with Chef
- Momoro Machine: Getting started with Chef -- A tutorial
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Using Chef for DevOps Innovations
- Rails Dog: Generating Thousands of PDFs on EC2 with Ruby
- Scout ~ The Blog: Self-funded = no compromises
It doesn't have to be linear segmentation, because the ability of Fortune 500 companies to pay is not linear, with respect to the size of the company. A 1,000 person company is not the same as collecting 1,000 one‑man companies and putting them all in a room together. They have orders of magnitude more money, so you should probably be charging them orders of magnitude more money.
"Names matter." Back in my time as a Japanese salary man, I was given a project to run by my boss, …
- Derek Powazek: links for 2010-03-26
- A Piece of Our Mind: Out and About
- The "Tech. Arch.": Improving Web Conversions In 3 Key Steps
- Opscode Blog: Cookbook Releases
- danwebb.net - Home: @media Ajax
- ZURB: Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne: From Dot Com Bust to IPO in 3 Years
Matt Wensing from Stormpulse (disclaimer: I'm an investor, long story below) generously took some time off of managing the nation's severe weather risks to appear on our podcast. ( Keith Perhac couldn't be with us when we taped this, as he was celebrating the birth of his second daughter.) It's been about six months since our last episode but I think this probably makes up for it, as it's a cracker of an episode.
- Rails on the Run - Home: MerbCamp 2008 SanDiego
- Scout ~ The Blog: Monitoring Apache ZooKeeper
- A Piece of Our Mind: Out and About
- Opscode Blog: Chef Advanced Training in Gent
- Positive Incline: Intangibles, value and risk (or: Portfolio thinking)
- » Product Launch Blog: Lean Startup Machine: Smarter Entrepreneurs in 55 Hours
…and practices designed to improve how we tackle innovation and uncertainty, be it in tech startups, Fortune 100, non-profits or government. I consider myself lucky to count Brant and Patrick as friends and colleagues. It is my hope that from this book you will gain valuable insights, make Lean Startup your own, and - much more importantly - that you are successful in changing the world for the better. Eric Ries,
San Francisco, December 2012
If you want to read more, you can …
- » Product Launch Blog: Lean Startup Machine: Smarter Entrepreneurs in 55 Hours
- Trevor Turk: Links for 9-19-10
- Positive Incline: Fire-and-forget: what it means, some remedies
- Signal vs. Noise: What happens to user experience in a minimum viable product?
- Tea-Driven Development: Agile North 2010
- New Relic: Why Lean Startups Love New Relic
…can go wrong is by being too self-important with the whole thing. I have seen CEOs of Fortune 500 companies painting beside adults with developmental disabilities, and guess who did the better painting? Not the rich guy. Don't assume that because you are a brilliant UI Designer, it means that you are a great artist, and that your paintings are worth a fortune. Don't worry about it. Only jerks try to sell art.
Clean your brushes with water when you are done.
- Christy John: Who will I be?
- Coding Horror: The Gamification
It's been a whirlwind year at Pathfinder. Our focus on bringing innovative solutions to the healthcare space has continued to bear fruit. We've added Fortune 500 clients and innovative startups in the device, diagnostic and health insurance industries.
Mobile
Our clients continue to innovate in their use of mobile technology. Many of our projects now involve developing mobile applications on iPhones, iPads and Android smartphones and tablets. Projects this year have included:
- Graceless Failures: Class What?
- Dalibor Nasevic: Ruby Singleton Pattern Again
- Practicing Ruby: LRU Integration
- MetaSkills.net: Meta Programming In...
- niczsoft: string to class in ruby on rails
- RubyLearning Blog: Does Ruby Have Too Many Equality Tests?
…that's what I still hope to do, because I have an endless well of obsession left.
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