Johanna Rothman leads us off with an article regarding what development and test managers do in an agile organization. If you have any interest in our industry and how management works, you need to be reading Johanna’s blog. Aaron Harris talks about managing your cofounder, because if you don’t it could be all downhill from… Read More Geek Reading January 30, 2015

We start with an excellent post from Valeria Maltoni on what makes people different than machines. Amazon goes after Google and Micrsoft by announcing WorkMail. Google fights back, posting about cloud pricing, how nobody understands how to compare offerings, and oh yeah “we are cheaper”. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the… Read More Geek Reading January 29, 2015

Today we have a good article on becoming an engineering manager from TechCrunch. Liz Keogh wrote an interesting post on using scenarios for experiment design. For some reason we had to open source releases of code search and analysis tools, Kythe from Google and Hound from Etsy on the Code as Craft blog. As always,… Read More Geek Reading January 28, 2015

There was some really interesting news yesterday. Cablevision announces a wifi-only phone service, which might be really useful for lower income families or people looking to replace their home phone. Google gets some help with its Wallet purchasing by partnering with WePay. With Apple Pay growing, this could be the type of thing that finally… Read More Geek Reading January 27, 2015

On Friday, Microsoft announced the purchase of Revolution Analytics. Seth Godin drops some genius on advice and criticism. 0 FPS gives us more about collision detection. And Venture Beat tells us why enterprises are taking a while to adopt devops. There are a bunch of good posts today, so make sure you take a look.… Read More Geek Reading January 26, 2015

Today, Andreessen Horowitz gives us “16 things”, an excellent batch of advice for startups and entrepreneurs. Ayende @ Rahien has been giving us a low-level performance series based on the work of the RavenDB team. Lastly, LinkedIn open sources a new distributed document store called Espresso. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in… Read More Geek Reading January 23, 2015

Lots of interesting stuff for today! First, Microsoft announced a bunch of things, but more importantly we get a good look at Windows 10. The White House put the entire State of the Union speech on Medium, displaying solid social media savvy. BBC reports on an x-ray technique that allows researchers to read burnt Vesuvius… Read More Geek Reading January 22, 2015

Today, Brad Feld gives us some excellent information on the product/market fit question. On Blind Five Year Old, AJ Kohn shows us how our desire to believe can be affected by marketing. There are two job related posts to look at as well. A geek with a hat rants on how programmers tend to get… Read More Geek Reading January 21, 2015

Some really cool advanced topics today. Over at 0 FPS, we have a continuing tutorial on collision detection. Syntopia gives us path tracing 3D fractals, and we all know that fractals are cool. Lastly, pyimagesearch shows us how to find the distance of an object from a camera using python. As always, enjoy today’s items,… Read More Geek Reading January 20, 2015

There was not a lot of great stories over the weekend, but we still have a few. Paul Graham says you should be working on what doesn’t seem like work. This is really about doing the things that you love to do. Our friends at Stack Exchange continue to buck the open office trend with… Read More Geek Reading January 19, 2015