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.

• The good Agile demand curve | allan’s blog – Agile, Lean, Patterns
• A Solar Boom So Successful, It’s Been Halted | Scientific American
• 365 days: Nature’s 10 people who mattered in science this year
• Startups should use a relational database | Ray Morgan
• An Annotation Nightmare | Be a better Developer
• About the tech backlash | Dave Winer
• Parameterized JUnit tests with JUnitParams | Java Code Geeks
• Managing a Startup Isn’t Different – Don’t Re-invent Everything | Startup Management
• Was Alan Kay wrong? And why does that matter? | R. S. Braythwayt
• Give Credit Generously | Managing Product Development
• The Daily Six Pack: December 23, 2013
• Object-based micro-locking for concurrent applications by using Guava | Java Code Geeks
• Transaction merging, locks, background threads and performance – Ayende @ Rahien
• The bad Agile demand curve | allan’s blog – Agile, Lean, Patterns
• Now Get Programmatic Access to your Billing Data With the New Billing API | Google Cloud Platform Blog
• Neo4j: Cypher – Using MERGE with schema indexes/constraints at Mark Needham
• Dew Drop – December 23, 2013 (#1689) | Morning Dew
• Orika: Mapping JAXB Objects to Business/Domain Objects | Inspired by Actual Events
• Knossos: Redis and linearizability | aphyr
• Spock: Data Driven Testing | Javalobby
• What Happens While Your Brain Sleeps is Surprisingly Like How Computers Stay Sane | High Scalability
• Subtyping in Java generics | Java Code Geeks
• Use Git even if your team doesn’t: git-svn tips and tricks – Atlassian Blogs
• How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates — then went and played for them | CITEworld

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