I have talked about human filters and my plan for digital curation. These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques.

• Update from the CEO (The Official Google Blog)
• Oracle to acquire cloud management software biz Nimbula (VentureBeat)
• VMware Confirms Its Amazon Web Services Competitor, Hybrid Cloud Services, To Be Led By Bill Fathers From Savvis (TechCrunch)
• The 60 Percent Rule (Agile Management | NOOP.NL)
• Agile in the Age of Hyperspecialization (Agile Zone – Software Methodologies for Development Managers)
• Box Is Testing Out New Apps That Could See It Go Head To Head With Google Docs (TechCrunch)
• Double Shot #1084 (A Fresh Cup)
• Varnish – Free Cache-Server Extraordinaire Speeds Up Your Website (noupe)
• Choose your customers first (Seth's Blog)
• Using Facades to Decouple API Integrations (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• It ain’t just reds and greens: Automated Acceptance Testing and quaternary test outcomes (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• JavaScript Asynchronous Dependency Loader (Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices)
• Promises and Deferred objects in jQuery and AngularJS (Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices)
• Fragmented Projects and Overcommitted People (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• In-Memory Data Grids (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• Continuous Delivery in the Cloud: CD Pipeline (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• Compromises on Quality (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• That’s Not Agile!? (Agile Zone – Software Methodologies for Development Managers)
• Ineffective Sorts (xkcd.com)
• Now is the time to switch to the new Google Play Developer Console (Android Developers Blog)
• TDD Terminology Simplified (Nettuts+)
• Venus.js, a flexible and extensible execution environment for JavaScript unit testing (LinkedIn Engineering – Blog)
• Google X Lab will reveal another ‘moonshot’ next month – but it’s not working on a space elevator (The Next Web)
• APIs are Dead, Long Live APIs (The Next Web)
• Gang of Four Patterns With Type-Classes and Implicits in Scala (Java Code Geeks)
• New first stop for hacked site recovery (Google Webmaster Central Blog)
• And the Game On competition winners are… (The Mozilla Blog)
• User Experience Lab: How we designed a new News Feed using your feedback (Facebook Engineering's Facebook Notes)
• Our Commitment to Social Computing Research: Social Interactions Focused Awards Announcement (Google Research Blog)

I hope you enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on those sites.

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