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.

• Dew Drop – July 17, 2014 (#1816) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1386 | A Fresh Cup
• Converting JSON to XML to Java Objects using XStream | Java Code Geeks
• Microsoft layoffs: 18K jobs to be cut | GigaOm
• The special problem | Seth’s Blog
• The Startup Employee Bill of Rights | EquityZen
• Variations on Rolling Forecasts | Javalobby
• 10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Strategy with the Vision Board | Javalobby
• Making the Reactive Queue Durable with Akka Persistence | Javalobby
• Introduction to Writing Custom Collectors in Java 8 | Javalobby
• Slow and Steady is Bullshit | Usually Pragmatic
• Inside the Artificial Brain That’s Remaking the Google Empire | WIRED
• Every Library Needs an Index | Javalobby
• Bare metal switching, pricing, and the impacts on resellers | Javalobby
• Introducing Google Cloud Monitoring Read API | Google Cloud Platform Blog
• Trust instead of Threats | Building Real Software
• Creating Your Own Java Annotations | Java Code Geeks
• A Simple Network Client in Rust | Wayne’s Articles
• Flowing into your games: LiquidFun 1.1 | Google Open Source Blog
• Discouraged Developer | ongoing by Tim Bray
• Rust for C++ programmers – part 9: destructuring pt2 – match and borrowing | Featherweight Musings
• Chrome 37 Beta: DirectWrite on Windows and the element | Chromium Blog
• The “Just In Time” Theory of User Behavior | Coding Horror

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