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Technical Competency Lead, Saratoga
Cape Town
Joined February 2011
Great start to @devconfza Cape Town! @qbitza and our Saratogans are in their element. Looking forward to the rest of the talks today. #DevConf #CapeTown #Devs
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A “razor” is a rule of thumb that simplifies decision making. The most powerful razors I’ve found:
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“Testing is one of the most critical processes of the Software Development Lifecycle.” Read more about a career in software testing by Shinaaz Osman, Senior Quality Assurance Consultant @SaratogaSA | https://t.co/miBCrds19E
#techinsight #qualityassurance #SoftwareTesting
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James Doohan, the actor for Star Trek's Scotty, was given an honorary doctorate by the Milwaukee School of Engineering after nearly half the student body cited him as their inspiration for pursuing engineering.
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“Industry events like the @devconfza provides exposure to new ideas & ways of thinking and is a great opportunity to build & maintain relationships within the technology industry.” @qbitza Read more about our insights from #DevConf 2022 | https://t.co/IuidriAGIM
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Cape Town has been named Africa’s top city on the Global Financial Centres Index’s Fintech list, moving up 9 places from 2021. @CapeTownEtc | https://t.co/dPiOhxS1x1
#TechNews #CapeTown #fintech
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Great list of patterns of distributed systems by @unmeshjoshi; valuable to understand all the distributed databases, message brokers, and so on, that you are using. https://t.co/TEtqCErMWu
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Putting the senior software developer shortage squarely in the spot light. Do you have online version of this talk available @PhilipJoubert ?
@PhilipJoubert from @OfferZen highlighting some of the major differences between the 2021 and 2022 State of the Developer Nation survey. Some fascinating takeaways for those in leadership. #DevConf #developers #software
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“The reliability and efficiency created by the automated processes meant deployment no longer took developers days to complete, but minutes." Daniel Barrett, Lead Consultant @SaratogaSA, shares his team's experience with #DevOps #Automation | https://t.co/1yFmZmVQMZ | @ITWeb
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“Willo knew he had to switch his field of study when he knew exactly where each and every computer science book sat in the library.” Meet @qbitza, Technology Consulting: Competency Lead at @SaratogaSA| https://t.co/TOVi50scIs
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This is so fantesticle! @SaratogaSA "hacklatoning" today for #loveyournuts 6 teams brainstorming, designing and coding fantesticle digital tools/ideas to support #testicular #cancer education in a nutshell Thank you for your fantesticle support!
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Incredible amounts of energy and some great innovation surfacing at the @SaratogaSA hackathon currently taking place in support of testicular cancer awareness. #hackathon #CancerAwareness
We're excited to be hosting a #Hackthon at our Head Offices today in support of the @LoveYourNuts organisation. Our Saratogans are spending the day creating & collaborating for a good cause! Find out more about @LoveYourNuts here: https://t.co/GDwBEyGmkS
#CancerAwareness
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When the bean bag is the most contested piece of property in the office it leads to some entertaining photos! Keep up the shenanigans Saratogans :) @Takaya213 @GanElf @SaratogaSA
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When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.
When you finish a PhD in computer science, they take you to a special room and explain that you must never use recursion in real life. Its only purpose is to make programming hard for undergrads.
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