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.

• Explaining Ark Part 4: Fixing Majority Write Concern | Javalobby
• Math and SQL Part 3: MVCC, Immutability, and Functional Programming | Javalobby
• Gradle Goodness: Getting More Dependency Insight | Javalobby
• I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me | WIRED
• Upgrading Cordova-Android Apps Outside Google Play Store with AngularJS | Javalobby
• Best of Both Worlds: How Virtualization will Impact the ADC Market | Javalobby
• Test Attribute #9 – Deterministic | Javalobby
• Groovy Goodness: Nested Templates with MarkupTemplateEngine | Javalobby
• How To Validate Your Business Idea By Testing A Hypothesis! | Hatchery
• Difference between getPath(), getCanonicalPath() and getAbsolutePath() of File in Java | Java Code Geeks
• Dew Drop – August 12, 2014 (#1834) | Morning Dew
• httpd vs Nginx vs HAProxy | Metrink Blog
• Protecting Gmail in a global world | Google Online Security Blog
• Pull request proficiency: Fetching abilities unlocked! | Atlassian Blogs
• Tinder Hires Amazon’s Jerry Heinz To Lead Engineering | TechCrunch
• Shift Is Developing A Debit Card That Lets You Spend Digital Currency, Loyalty Points And Regular Money | TechCrunch
• Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics | Stephen Wolfram Blog
• What is Big Structure? | AI3:::Adaptive Information
• Building a Better Dashboard for Virtual Infrastructure | Dan Tehranian’s Blog
• Compile-time checking JPA queries | Java Code Geeks
• ChessTDD 12: Blind Alleys | DaedTech
• The Daily Six Pack: August 13, 2014
• What would Donald Knuth do? | The Endeavour

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