As you can see below, the format of these posts are changing. I am trying to help people get to information faster. So, now we have topic groupings which allow you to jump directly to development topics or focus only on some other topic. I hope you enjoy the changes so far as there might be more coming. Enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Career and Process

• How Do You Serve Your Organization? | Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant
• Software engineers should write | Shubhro Saha
• Why Fairness is Key to Collaboration | Javalobby
• Designing With Your Clients | Smashing Magazine
• Saving a Project and a Company | Jacques Mattheij
• You Should Be Building Habit Forming Applications | refact
• How to learn efficiently | Daniel Lemire

Development

• Spring retry – ways to integrate with your project | Java Code Geeks
• The Death of Cocoa | NSHipster
• Open JPA – L2 Cache Issue and Workaround | Javalobby
• Generation Javascript | In translation
• Snowflakes – Redux | Andrew Cherry
• Things which aren’t magic – Flask and @app.route – Part 2 | Ainsley Escorce-Jones
• Golang is Trash | Below All the Turtles

Analytics, Big Data, SQL and NoSQL

• Prediction Competitions | Javalobby
• It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time: MongoReplicaSetClient | Javalobby

Security and Encryption

• some gripes about nacl | tedunangst.com
• On the new Snowden documents | A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering

IaaS, PaaS and Saas

• SaaS in 2015 – What New Shifts Will We See? | Javalobby
• Rapid Auto Scaling with Amazon SQS | Amazon AWS

Other stuff

• Chromebooks can now run Linux in a Chrome OS window | GigaOm
• Android Lollipop Bug: Android 5.0.1 found to have serious memory leak | BGR
• My $2375 Amazon EC2 Mistake | DevFactor

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1451 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – December 30, 2014 (#1924) | Morning Dew