Happy 4th to all of the readers in the states! Enjoy the barbecues and fireworks!

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 Importance of Governance in Software Development | Javalobby
• Changing the Mindset of Agile Teams | Javalobby
• Enabling SOLR Autocommit with a Custom Haystack Backend | Javalobby
• 5 Common Barriers When Introducing DevOps | Javalobby
• What is Scalable Machine Learning? | Javalobby
• Encourage Your Employees to Talk About Other Job Offers | Harvard Business Review
• Evaluating Persistent, Replicated Message Queues | Javalobby
• Readable, Succinct, or Just Plain Short? | Javalobby
• Dew Drop – July 3, 2014 (#1808) | Morning Dew
• adopting a new programming language | Klaas Pieter
• Pixels are expensive | Aerotwist
• If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance | Boing Boing
• NSA Targets Privacy Conscious for Surveillance | Schneier on Security
• Using App Price Changes to Boost Discovery and Downloads | The Data Point
• Yahoo releases massive Flickr dataset, and a supercomputer steps up to analyze it | GigaOm
• Try to Kill Your Startup Before You Start | The Next Web
• Using @NamedEntityGraph to load JPA entities more selectively in N+1 scenarios | Java Code Geeks
• If BigDecimal is the answer, it must have been a strange question. | Vanilla #Java
• Princeton researchers use sunlight to convert CO2 more efficiently than plants do | VentureBeat
• xkcd’ers: We know where you live (+ more) | The Two Weeker
• Getting Started with Gradle: Dependency Management | Java Code Geeks
• Pi and The Raven | The Endeavour

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