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5 Common Pitfalls To Avoid When Building Dev Team

Bigger is not always better, especially when it comes to expensive resources like programmers and developers. Many startups that fail in the first year or two of business spend most of their money (read: their investors money) on “development,” thinking that product building is traction. However, constantly building can be a distraction and detrimental to building a company culture around success.

When a business relies on technology like an app or website, it is important to keep costs as low and as efficient as possible. This is so that when true emergencies arise, your company can not only survive, but adapt to the situation

Inc. : 5 Common Mistakes When Building Out a Development Team. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw2KiRmCE

While written with large dev teams in mind, this advice is worth keeping in mind even if you’re still working solo out of your garage.

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FBI Warns of ISIL Defacement Attacks on WordPress Sites

The FBI issued a public service announcement today [April 7, 2015], warning concerning WordPress website attacks being carried out by individuals sympathetic to the Islamic State in the Levant (ISIL) a.k.a. Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (ISIS). The perpetrators of these attacks are defacing sites across various platforms such as news organizations, businesses, government sites, and religious institutions.

via FBI Warns of ISIL Defacement Attacks on WordPress Sites.

Everyone running WordPress out there needs to make sure they’re patched up and security is tight on your WP sites. CALI’s Classcaster and other WordPress sites are up to date and secure.

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Assignment: Creating a D&D Character | MAS S66: Indistinguishable From… Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition

“You are sitting in a tavern. You look down and see a D&D homework assignment on the table…”

Hello and welcome to the D&D homework assignment.

In this assignment you’re going to learn about how role playing games depict characters and events in magical worlds using numbers. You’re going to conduct a series of exercises meant to give you a sense for how these kinds of games use numbers to make the fantasy they depict feel real for the player. Specifically, you’re going to roll a few D&D characters

Assignment: Creating a D&D Character | MAS S66: Indistinguishable From… Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition http://indistinguishablefrom.media.mit.edu/2015/03/11/assignment-creating-a-dd-character/

Clearly I went to the wrong college. There was plenty of D&D for sure, but we didn’t get credit for it.