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How Can Managers Work More Efficiently with IT?
Would you rather work under someone who is an excellent developer but lacks people skills or leadership capabilities - or for someone that has excellent people skills, communicates well, and is a great leader but has limited understanding of productive coding practices? That’s not to say that the choice is one or the other but in many professional situations it does.
Managing an IT staff comes with numerous challenges, especially if the manager has no previous experience with the coding necessary for completing the project. Managing a business and IT's execution of tasks vary greatly in required skill sets, but it's important to find a cohesive and cooperative middle ground in order to see a project to its end. To fully grasp the intricacies of IT's involvement in the project at hand, managers can do the following to help further their efforts.
Get a basic understanding of coding and technical practices necessary for the project at hand by taking the time to research and practice enough to get a grip on the concept. This will allow managers insight on what their IT folks are really working on daily. Expertise in a programming language is not required, only an overview of the stuff that matters, i.e. understanding the concept of OOP (Object Oriented Programming.) Having this knowledge cannot be overlooked and will gain respect among multiple spectrums in the organization.
In programming, memory leaks are a common issue, and it occurs when a computer uses memory but does not give it back to the operating system. Experienced programmers have the ability to diagnose a leak based on the symptoms. Some believe every undesired increase in memory usage is a memory leak, but this is not an accurate representation of a leak. Certain leaks only run for a short time and are virtually undetectable.
Memory Leak Consequences
Applications that suffer severe memory leaks will eventually exceed the memory resulting in a severe slowdown or a termination of the application.
How to Protect Code from Memory Leaks?
Preventing memory leaks in the first place is more convenient than trying to locate the leak later. To do this, you can use defensive programming techniques such as smart pointers for C++. A smart pointer is safer than a raw pointer because it provides augmented behavior that raw pointers do not have. This includes garbage collection and checking for nulls.
If you are going to use a raw pointer, avoid operations that are dangerous for specific contexts. This means pointer arithmetic and pointer copying. Smart pointers use a reference count for the object being referred to. Once the reference count reaches zero, the excess goes into garbage collection. The most commonly used smart pointer is shared_ptr from the TR1 extensions of the C++ standard library.
Static Analysis
The second approach to memory leaks is referred to as static analysis and attempts to detect errors in your source-code. CodeSonar is one of the effective tools for detection. It provides checkers for the Power of Ten coding rules, and it is especially competent at procedural analysis. However, some might find it lagging for bigger code bases.
How to Handle a Memory Leak
For some memory leaks, the only solution is to read through the code to find and correct the error. Another one of the common approaches to C++ is to use RAII, which an acronym for Resource Acquisition Is Initialization. This approach means associating scoped objects using the acquired resources, which automatically releases the resources when the objects are no longer within scope. RAII has the advantage of knowing when objects exist and when they do not. This gives it a distinct advantage over garbage collection. Regardless, RAII is not always recommended because some situations require ordinary pointers to manage raw memory and increase performance. Use it with caution.
The Most Serious Leaks
Urgency of a leak depends on the situation, and where the leak has occurred in the operating system. Additionally, it becomes more urgent if the leak occurs where the memory is limited such as in embedded systems and portable devices.
To protect code from memory leaks, people have to stay vigilant and avoid codes that could result in a leak. Memory leaks continue until someone turns the system off, which makes the memory available again, but the slow process of a leak can eventually prejudice a machine that normally runs correctly.
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No industry is as global as software development. Pervasive networking means that software developers can, and do, work from anywhere. This has led many businesses to hiring development subcontractors in other countries, aiming to find good development talent at lower prices, or with fewer hassles on entry into the US.
While this is an ongoing and dynamic equilibrium, there are compelling reasons for doing software development in the United States, or using a hybrid model where some parts of the task are parceled out to foreign contractors and some are handled locally.
Development Methodologies
The primary reason for developing software overseas is cost reduction. The primary argument against overseas software development is slower development cycles. When software still used the "waterfall" industrial process for project management (where everything is budgeted in terms of time at the beginning of the project), offshoring was quite compelling. As more companies emulate Google and Facebook's process of "release early, update often, and refine from user feedback," an increasing premium has been put on software teams that are small enough to be agile (indeed, the development process is called Agile Development), and centralized enough, in terms of time zones, that collaborators can work together. This has made both Google and Facebook leaders in US-based software development, though they both still maintain teams of developers in other countries tasked with specific projects.
Localization For Americans
The United States is still one of the major markets for software development, and projects aimed at American customers needs to meet cultural norms. This applies to any country, not just the U.S. This puts a premium on software developers who aren't just fluent in English, but native speakers, and who understand American culture. While it's possible (and even likely) to make server-side software, and management utilities that can get by with terse, fractured English, anything that's enterprise-facing or consumer-facing requires more work on polish and presentation than is practical using outsourced developers. There is a reason why the leaders in software User Interface development are all US-based companies, and that's because consumer-focused design is still an overwhelming US advantage.
Ongoing Concerns
The primary concern for American software development is talent production. The US secondary education system produces a much smaller percentage of students with a solid math and engineering background, and while US universities lead the world in their computer science and engineering curricula, slightly under half of all of those graduates are from foreign countries, because American students don't take the course loads needed to succeed in them. Software development companies in the United States are deeply concerned about getting enough engineers and programmers out of the US university system. Some, such as Google, are trying to get programmers hooked on logical problem solving at a young age, with the Summer of Code programs. Others, like Microsoft, offer scholarships for computer science degrees.
Overall, the changes in project management methodologies mean that the US is the current leader in software development, and so long as the primary market for software remains English and American-centric, that's going to remain true. That trend is far from guaranteed, and in the world of software, things can change quickly.
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters has been adopted by many as a model summary manual of python's philosophy. Though these statements should be considered more as guideline and not mandatory rules, developers worldwide find the poem to be on a solid guiding ground.
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
Tech Life in California
Company Name | City | Industry | Secondary Industry |
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Mattel, Inc. | El Segundo | Retail | Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book, and Music Stores |
Spectrum Group International, Inc. | Irvine | Retail | Retail Other |
Chevron Corp | San Ramon | Energy and Utilities | Gasoline and Oil Refineries |
Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. | Pasadena | Real Estate and Construction | Construction and Remodeling |
eBay Inc. | San Jose | Software and Internet | E-commerce and Internet Businesses |
Broadcom Corporation | Irvine | Computers and Electronics | Semiconductor and Microchip Manufacturing |
Franklin Templeton Investments | San Mateo | Financial Services | Investment Banking and Venture Capital |
Pacific Life Insurance Company | Newport Beach | Financial Services | Insurance and Risk Management |
Tutor Perini Corporation | Sylmar | Real Estate and Construction | Construction and Remodeling |
SYNNEX Corporation | Fremont | Software and Internet | Data Analytics, Management and Storage |
Core-Mark International Inc | South San Francisco | Manufacturing | Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging |
Occidental Petroleum Corporation | Los Angeles | Manufacturing | Chemicals and Petrochemicals |
Yahoo!, Inc. | Sunnyvale | Software and Internet | Software and Internet Other |
Edison International | Rosemead | Energy and Utilities | Gas and Electric Utilities |
Ingram Micro, Inc. | Santa Ana | Computers and Electronics | Consumer Electronics, Parts and Repair |
Safeway, Inc. | Pleasanton | Retail | Grocery and Specialty Food Stores |
Gilead Sciences, Inc. | San Mateo | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Pharmaceuticals |
AECOM Technology Corporation | Los Angeles | Real Estate and Construction | Architecture,Engineering and Design |
Reliance Steel and Aluminum | Los Angeles | Manufacturing | Metals Manufacturing |
Live Nation, Inc. | Beverly Hills | Media and Entertainment | Performing Arts |
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | Sunnyvale | Computers and Electronics | Semiconductor and Microchip Manufacturing |
Pacific Gas and Electric Corp | San Francisco | Energy and Utilities | Gas and Electric Utilities |
Electronic Arts Inc. | Redwood City | Software and Internet | Games and Gaming |
Oracle Corporation | Redwood City | Software and Internet | Software and Internet Other |
Symantec Corporation | Mountain View | Software and Internet | Data Analytics, Management and Storage |
Dole Food Company, Inc. | Thousand Oaks | Manufacturing | Food and Dairy Product Manufacturing and Packaging |
CBRE Group, Inc. | Los Angeles | Real Estate and Construction | Real Estate Investment and Development |
First American Financial Corporation | Santa Ana | Financial Services | Financial Services Other |
The Gap, Inc. | San Francisco | Retail | Clothing and Shoes Stores |
Ross Stores, Inc. | Pleasanton | Retail | Clothing and Shoes Stores |
Qualcomm Incorporated | San Diego | Telecommunications | Wireless and Mobile |
Charles Schwab Corporation | San Francisco | Financial Services | Securities Agents and Brokers |
Sempra Energy | San Diego | Energy and Utilities | Gas and Electric Utilities |
Western Digital Corporation | Irvine | Computers and Electronics | Consumer Electronics, Parts and Repair |
Health Net, Inc. | Woodland Hills | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotech Other |
Allergan, Inc. | Irvine | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Biotechnology |
The Walt Disney Company | Burbank | Media and Entertainment | Motion Picture and Recording Producers |
Hewlett-Packard Company | Palo Alto | Computers and Electronics | Consumer Electronics, Parts and Repair |
URS Corporation | San Francisco | Real Estate and Construction | Architecture,Engineering and Design |
Cisco Systems, Inc. | San Jose | Computers and Electronics | Networking Equipment and Systems |
Wells Fargo and Company | San Francisco | Financial Services | Banks |
Intel Corporation | Santa Clara | Computers and Electronics | Semiconductor and Microchip Manufacturing |
Applied Materials, Inc. | Santa Clara | Computers and Electronics | Semiconductor and Microchip Manufacturing |
Sanmina Corporation | San Jose | Computers and Electronics | Semiconductor and Microchip Manufacturing |
Agilent Technologies, Inc. | Santa Clara | Telecommunications | Telecommunications Equipment and Accessories |
Avery Dennison Corporation | Pasadena | Manufacturing | Paper and Paper Products |
The Clorox Company | Oakland | Manufacturing | Chemicals and Petrochemicals |
Apple Inc. | Cupertino | Computers and Electronics | Consumer Electronics, Parts and Repair |
Amgen Inc | Thousand Oaks | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Biotechnology |
McKesson Corporation | San Francisco | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech | Pharmaceuticals |
DIRECTV | El Segundo | Telecommunications | Cable Television Providers |
Visa, Inc. | San Mateo | Financial Services | Credit Cards and Related Services |
Google, Inc. | Mountain View | Software and Internet | E-commerce and Internet Businesses |
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The Hartmann Software Group understands these issues and addresses them and others during any training engagement. Although no IT educational institution can guarantee career or application development success, HSG can get you closer to your goals at a far faster rate than self paced learning and, arguably, than the competition. Here are the reasons why we are so successful at teaching:
- Learn from the experts.
- We have provided software development and other IT related training to many major corporations in California since 2002.
- Our educators have years of consulting and training experience; moreover, we require each trainer to have cross-discipline expertise i.e. be Java and .NET experts so that you get a broad understanding of how industry wide experts work and think.
- Discover tips and tricks about C++ programming
- Get your questions answered by easy to follow, organized C++ experts
- Get up to speed with vital C++ programming tools
- Save on travel expenses by learning right from your desk or home office. Enroll in an online instructor led class. Nearly all of our classes are offered in this way.
- Prepare to hit the ground running for a new job or a new position
- See the big picture and have the instructor fill in the gaps
- We teach with sophisticated learning tools and provide excellent supporting course material
- Books and course material are provided in advance
- Get a book of your choice from the HSG Store as a gift from us when you register for a class
- Gain a lot of practical skills in a short amount of time
- We teach what we know…software
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