Articles for Career Growth
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Tips for Being Effective as Your Own Career Coach and Mentor
With tech pros changing jobs every few years, and companies devoting the bulk of their training expenditures to relatively few employees, there’s little doubt that you alone are responsible for y… -
Google Duplex Shows How Developers Must Take Care with A.I.
Last week, Google revealed Duplex, an artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform designed to speak to customer-service representatives on the phone. Although the search-engine giant hailed this inno… -
Game Developer Salary: Maximum, Minimum, and Career Downsides
Lots of people pursue a career in video-game development because they love playing video games. But such a career isn’t all fun and games (so to speak): the gaming industry is notorious for long… -
Amazon's In-Skill Purchasing for Alexa Opens Monetization for Devs
If tech companies want to grow extensive developer ecosystems around their respective digital-assistant platforms, they’ll need to convince those developers that there’s lots of money to be made.… -
Michigan's Thriving Tech Ecosystem
Michigan has a rich history as the heart of the automotive industry, but it has also emerged as a vibrant center for innovative technologies. With advancements in electric vehicles (EVs), mobilit…Sponsored -
If You Have EU Customers, GDPR Should Keep You Up at Night
You may have heard of GDPR. If you’ve only been paying faint attention, you might think that it’s some kind of European regulation that won’t affect your work. But if you have customers in the EU… -
TIOBE Claims Google Scrambled Its Programming Language Rankings
In the May edition of the TIOBE Index, a new programming language makes an appearance at the very bottom of the top 20: Scala. “Scala is a functional programming language that runs on Java's JVM… -
Lobe is Exactly What Deep Learning and A.I. Developers Need
Deep learning just became much simpler to code and train. Lobe is a new project that combines visual coding with visual data modeling. Founded by two artificial intelligence (A.I.) engineers and… -
Google Wants to Assist You in Building for Google Assistant
Interested in Google Assistant as a development platform? Google wants to encourage that impulse. A new program will fund startups and tech pros interested in building new features for Google Ass… -
New Tool Details What a Freelance Developer Should Charge
Whether you’re doing freelance work full-time or tackling a side project, deciding on an hourly rate is tough. CodeMentorX’s new 'rate finder' tool can help you decide what to charge, even down t… -
Web Applications Developers, Engineers Top Entry-Level Jobs
Engineers and web applications developers are some of the best entry-level jobs, according to new data from WalletHub, which compared 109 entry-level jobs across 13 metrics. Those metrics include… -
Women Pioneering Tech Innovation at Disney
Every woman and non-binary technologist at Disney is essential to bringing our world-class stories and immersive experiences to life. Their unique and diverse perspectives foster our culture of i…Sponsored