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 scrolls without unrolling them. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about understanding your audience in this highly connected world. If you are not reading what Valeria is writing, then you really need to start paying attention.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
- Understanding Audiences in a Connected World | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
- The White House just put the entire State of the Union speech on Medium | VentureBeat
- X-ray technique reads burnt Vesuvius scroll | BBC News
- This is Windows 10’s Start Screen | The Next Web
Career and Process
- Burning Down The House – Agile Remix | Java Code Geeks
- Freedom, control and good ideas | Seth Godin
- We Need Planning; Do We Need Estimation? | Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant
- The Agile Database: Best Practices | Architects Zone
Development
- I’ll Take a Crack at Defining Tech Debt | DaedTech
- Retiring Python as a Teaching Language | programming in the twenty-first century
- “Configuring It All Out” or “12-Factor App-Style Configuration with Spring” | Javalobby
- MDB != JMS and vice-versa | Java Code Geeks
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Dates take a lot of time | Ayende @ Rahien
- Revealing the Length of Garbage Collection Pauses | Architects Zone
- Extreme OpenStack: Scale testing OpenStack Messaging | JavaCruft
- Learn from my pain – 5 Lessons from Ello’s Adventures in Rapid Scaling | High Scalability
- Tuning Ruby’s Global Method Cache | Shopify
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Introducing Surus and ScorePMML | The Netflix Tech Blog
- Random Forests and Boosting in MLlib | Databricks
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Combating Crime and Hate Speech with Big Data | Javalobby
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Securing the Unikernel | Thomas Leonard’s blog
- Tighter Control Over Your Referrers | Mozilla Security Blog
IaaS, PaaS and Saas
- Announcing the General Availability of Local SSD | Google Cloud Platform Blog
Other stuff
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1462 | A Fresh Cup
- Numerical computing resources | John D. Cook
- Dew Drop – January 21, 2015 (#1937) | Morning Dew
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