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Women in engineering: How I found and started my career as a software engineer

Sprout Social

I remember my professor making a point of calling on me during class, and while he may have thought he was helping me gain more confidence, it was an extremely stressful experience. I made it through with top grades and decided that from then on, I wanted to make sure women in engineering would not have the same experience as me.

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Lessons learned as an entry-level software engineer

Sprout Social

If you asked me a year ago what a software engineer did, I would have said something along the lines of “solving problems through code.” For engineers on product-driven teams, these problems could include how to implement a new feature that customers have been asking for , or how to improve the performance of existing features.

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Everything You Need to Know About Professional Engineering License Renewal

The Realtime Report

Everything You Need to Know About Professional Engineering License Renewal. High school students are flocking to college in greater numbers than ever before as they realize the value of investing four years in a college degree in a technical discipline like engineering. Moving Forward as an Engineer. Check Your State.

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Social Media Roundup: CEOs on Twitter Best in Class

Ignite Social Media

Today, let’s focus on the former and take a look at some of the best in class CEOs on Twitter (in no particular order). Often comes as a surprise when people learn that 80% of my time is on engineering/design and just 20% on other stuff [link]. These are just a handful of some of the best in class CEOs on Twitter.

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Automating dependency updates with Dependabot

Sprout Social

One of our values on Sprout’s engineering team is to act with purpose and focus. It surfaces any version upgrades as they become available and creates pull requests (PRs) containing information about the upgrade, which we were able to seamlessly integrate into our normal engineering workflow.

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SEO World Class…. What SEO Snake Oil Salesmen Look Like

Bill Hartzer

I’m amazed by the number of “snake oil” Search Engine Optimization salesmen send out unsolicited email spam, really believing that someone will take their “bait” What type of SEO services do you expect to receive if you pay this company just $99? Search Engine Optimization' From: Mark Lee. What a deal!

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37 Free Marketing and Social Media Classes to Elevate Your Skills Today

Buffer Social

When I first started out with digital marketing, I was blown away by the sheer amount of online marketing resources and social media classes. If you’d like to dig into one area in particular, here’s a quick table of contents so you can jump to the section that’s most important to you: Social media marketing classes (Nos.

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