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Seeing the 'whole system'

Forgive me, I am about to make another music analogy, this time to help guide you as you grind projects for your profile. So in music pedagogy, there is this thing called an 'étude' - an étude French for 'study' is a short musical piece designed...

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Weekly Jobs Digest - World Cup Victory Edition

I was 8 years old in 1983 so I only have a vague recollection of the night when all the adults in the house sat rapt in front of the TV and then as one exploded into a huge celebration. It was only much later that I understood what had happened....

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We can 'just build' again

Yesterday I was invited by CleverTap to speak at their CleverTalks event. I chose to spoke about the history of web development and how the most exciting languages right now are, wait for it, HTML and CSS, and how these two, coupled with new...

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Songwriter or Virtuoso?

Bob Dylan or Steve Vai? You see, they're both musicians at the highest level, but they come at it from very different sides. Bob Dylan can barely sing and his guitar playing is passable at best. But what he brings to the art is his understanding...

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