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.

• Lessons Learned: The First Two Years of Running a Software Consultancy | ReefPoints
• Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple | Threatpost
• We Made Our Book Free – Here’s What Happened – Discover Meteor
• The Daily Six Pack: December 24, 2013
• Transforming a server application to cloud application | Java Code Geeks
• Goal Setting Vs. Timeboxing: Why One Sucks | David Lin
• 4 Myths of Disaster Recovery | Architects Zone
• My take on RESTful authentication | No silver bullet
• Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters – Stavros’ Stuff
• The Four Architectures That Will Inspire Your Programming | Javalobby
• Clojure vs Scala | Thoughts on Programming
• Samsung Knox Security Vulnerability Uncovered in Galaxy S4 | BGR
• Is Ruby Dying? | I, Developer
• Why use Clojure? | Paradiso
• Investing Time vs. Spending Time – Tynan
• Why [Programming Language X] Is Unambiguously Better than [Programming Language Y] | Joel Grus
• Performance tuning – measure don’t guess | Java Code Geeks
• Sorting Networks using Higher-Order Functions of JavaScript Array | Architects Zone
• The Plight of the Employed – NYTimes.com
• Guest Post: How I (finally) found a technical co-founder and got accepted to Seedcamp by Steven Renwick | Seedcamp
• Target hackers stole encrypted PIN data, Reuters reports | BGR
• Double Shot #1264 | A Fresh Cup
• Deploying full fledged flask app in production – Random stream
• What the Heck is a Relation? From Tables to Cartesian Products to Logic | Probably Done Before
• The Enchantments of Elm: Part 1 : Sridatta Thatipamala
• Behind the scenes of a dashboard design – Tom Germeau
• Dew Drop – December 26, 2013 (#1690) | Morning Dew

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