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 daily reading. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. You will note that some of the formatting has changed, and that is due to the change in my process. Formatting, and the information presented, is likely to change a bit as I develop my new process.

• Migrating Graphite from SQLite to PostgreSQL | obfuscurity
• Programming Your Brain: The Art of Learning in Three Steps | BitNative
• From OOP to Functional Programming – Inheritance and the expression Problem | Dobiasd/articles
• The three most common ways data junkies are using Hadoop | GigaOm
• A/B testing with bayesian bandits in Google Analytics – FastML
• The Daily Six Pack: December 16, 2013
• I want | dcurt.is
• Worst Practices Teams | Javalobby
• Why I Like Spring Bean Aliasing | Javalobby
• Selling Small Dreams | NOOP.NL
• Escape Local Optimum Trap | Javalobby
• Handling Big Data with HBase Part 2: First Steps | Javalobby
• A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack – Tom Moertel’s Blog
• Project Avatar – What’s in it for Java EE 8? | Javalobby
• Applying ForkJoin – from optimal to fast | Java Code Geeks
• Double Shot #1259 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – December 16, 2013 (#1684) | Morning Dew
• Amazon introduces interest-free payment plan for Kindle Fire HDX tablets | GigaOm
• What Programming Languages are Technology Startups Using? – Heidar Bernhardsson
• A Practical Exercise in Web Scraping | Pete Keen
• No return statements | Web Builder Zone
• Designing for Win/Loss | Ross N. Feinstein
• API Access May Give Redbox a Boost | ProgrammableWeb
• The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data’s unifying abstraction | LinkedIn Engineering
• 22 Recommendations for Building Effective High Traffic Web Software | High Scalability

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