How I Made Myself a More Valuable Programmer in 6 Months (and How You Can Too) by @ZacharyMinott via @BttrProgramming

Set goals, manage your time, learn quickly, and apply immediately.

This is really useful and a must-read and can be applied to beginners and more advanced programmers too. I think the lessons can also be applied to any technology and any language - the main tenets are common to all.

Recent Acquisitions in the Business Intelligence field together with a longer view list

Within the past week, we’ve seen the acquisitions of the two biggest players in the modern BI landscape, Looker and Tableau. And if you broaden your view to the entire analytics tech stack, it’s bigger: here are the major acquisitions over the past year:

• Stitch. Acquired by Talend on 11/7/2018 for $60m.
• Alooma. Acquired by Google on 2/19/19 for an undisclosed amount.
• Periscope. Acquired by Sisense on 5/14/19 for an undisclosed amount.
• Looker. Acquired by Google on 6/6/19 for $2.6b.
• Tableau. Acquired by Salesforce on 6/10/19 for $15.7b.

Wow - who is next?? It's obviously big business.

Salesforce.com Enters the BI Market with Wave, the Salesforce Analytics Cloud

Blog from +Information Management discussing the annoucement.