Mozilla leads us off with a nice post on the net neutrality vote. While the vote was considered positive, it will be interesting to see how companies find loopholes for their own purposes. Microsoft talks about the new rendering engine that will be used for both IE and the new Project Spartan. Stress, anxiety and… Read More Geek Reading February 27, 2015
Google makes another big move, this time announcing Google Flights. It isn’t a huge deal yet, but this definitely feels like it could be much bigger. Google also announce Google Play for Work, in a pitch at Android for businesses. Lastly, on Building Real Software they talk about how DevOps is not about speed it… Read More Geek Reading February 26, 2015
Google makes a big move for Google Wallet, getting carrier buy-in. This puts Wallet in a very good position moving forward. On hueniverse, we have an excellent set of notes on managing remote teams. Anyone who has ever done that will completely understand, and those that haven’t might get a good understanding of what is… Read More Geek Reading February 25, 2015
Today we start with a story from WIRED about the NSA firmware hacking. I have tried to avoid the hysteria and WIRED has a nicely detailed post. DaedTech, whose posts are normally development related, has a great post on the “retreat of the introvert”. I am sure that most of us will relate to this.… Read More Geek Reading February 24, 2015
We start the week with some awesomeness from XKCD’s What If series, this one about snow removal. I figured that we have all had dreams of faster ways to get rid of the snow. Sam Altman gives us some excellent startup advice. Lastly, Think Faster tells us why rockstar developers don’t ask for help, or… Read More Geek Reading February 23, 2015
Yesterday, Visa announced a more aggressive rollout of its Checkout product. Given that most people do not know what it is, more aggressive sounds like a good idea. Data news was popular as well. Netflix released RAD, its outlier detection tooling. Flowing Data shares a great graphic aboud the impact of vaccines throughout history. Lastly,… Read More Geek Reading February 20, 2015
Leading off today is Microsoft announcing support for asm.js to the Windows 10 JavaScript engine. Traditionally, IE performance around JavaScript, JSON and XML has been lagging the other browsers, so this could be some good news. Ayende @ Rahien brings us another installment of his performance series, this one focusing on the performance affects of… Read More Geek Reading February 19, 2015
Today we have Google announcing a Chinese language developer channel on YouTube. This is significant because that is a huge audience and highly mobile. The second top story comes from The Guardian about a new way to boil water, an iron rod. Very cool stuff regardless of how expensive it might be right now. Javalobby… Read More Geek Reading February 18, 2015
The first highlight from yesterday came from XKCD with the comic Tornado. As usual with XKCD, make sure you read the image alt text as well. We also have some really interesting performance articles today. First, High Scalability talks about what PAPER did to handle the traffic for their Kim Kardashian shoot. The High Scalability… Read More Geek Reading February 17, 2015
The first bit of interesting news came on Friday when Google announced it was shutting down Helpouts. This is interesting because the idea of expert video chat is gaining some traction in some places, but possibly not good enough for google-scale. LinkedIn talks about real-time distributed tracing. Ayende @ Rahien continues to look at the… Read More Geek Reading February 16, 2015
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