Today we have a very cool device from CES, the Kraftwerk. Johanna Rothman tells us not to be indispensable, and if you care about your job besides the coding you should subscribe to her blog. If you ever wondered how some basic decisions in your code affect revenue, look no further than the article at Flowing Data and the revenue from NYC cabs.
Enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
Career and Process
- LTR Org Chart | Jay Fields’ Thoughts
- I Almost Let My Startup Failure Destroy Me | Rui Delgado
- Change the Indispensable Employee Mindset | Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant
Development
- Caching Strategy Reminder for Maven-Based Docker Builds | Java Code Geeks
- Planning A Front-End JavaScript Application | Javalobby
- 3 Common SQL Mistakes You are Probably Making as a Java Developer | DZone
- Getting Started with Servlet 3 | Javalobby
- Quelling the floating point demon in my line rendering code | Musing Mortoray
- Reusable software? Just don’t write generic code | Jos de Jong
- Hacking web forms to support iOS8 Card Scan | PaymentSpring Blog
- JavaScript Modularity Shaming | swannodette
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- The Ultimate Guide: 5 Methods for Debugging Production Servers at Scale | High Scalability
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- deep net highlights from 2014 | lacking capital(s)
- Which Simplex Method Do You Like? | disORiented
- Proof in Functions | Few, but ripe
- Products and Coproducts | Bartosz Milewski’s Programming Cafe
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- $5.2 million in extra cab tips, because of software | Flowing Data
- Segmenting your traffic? You are probably doing it wrong. | Chris Stucchio
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Load Balance Tomcat with Nginx and Store Sessions in Redis | Javalobby
- Hazelcast Dev Workflows & Tools | David Brimley
- Crate with Docker & Weave | all about Weave
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Bitstamp problem and Warm wallets | Egor Homakov
Link Collections
- Probability resources | John D. Cook
- Dew Drop – January 7, 2015 (#1928) | Morning Dew
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