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 has a post with a click-bait title regarding security and MongoDB, however the post really talks about how some simple security can be added to any environment. A good, solid read and not worthy of its click-bait title. Lastly, Shodan shows us that if you image servers that have SSH installed with a key, you likely have thousands of servers with the same SSH key. Probably not what you were intending to do.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Top Stories

• Google launches the Chinese language Developer Channel on YouTube | Google Developers Blog
• Boiling point: redesigning the kettle for the 21st century | The Guardian

Career and Process

• Be Careful About Being a Meddling Startup CEO | Both Sides of the Table
• What’s a Real IoT Project? A Career-Shaping Question for Developers | Javalobby
• “NoSQL Injection” – What 40000 Unsecured MongoDB Databases Mean for our Industry | Javalobby
• The Problem with Job Titles | WorkShape
• The Art of the Dojo | Code as Craft

Development

• Unit Test, System Test, Red Test, Green Test | Java Code Geeks
• Comparison: Lockless programming with atomics in C++ 11 vs. mutex and RW-locks | ArangoDB
• Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us | Bit Bashing
• Using JASPIC to Secure a Web Application in GlassFish | Javalobby
• Artificial Intelligence, XML, and Java Concurrency | Javalobby
• 11 Mistakes that Come Back to Bite Experience Java Developers | Javalobby
• Automated tests and how they are time savers | On software efficiency
• Refactoring code that accesses external services | Martin Fowler
• JDK8 Streams to Convert Between Collections of Wrapped Objects & Collections of Wrappers | Inspired by Actual Events
• Set Your Data Free with Clojure and REST | The Data Point by RJMetrics

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• The load-balanced capture effect | Rachel By The Bay
• Handling five billion sessions a day – in real time | Twitter Blogs

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Random walks and the arcsine law | John D. Cook
• The Genetic Algorithm – Explained | Tech-Effigy

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• NSA Can Hide Spyware in Hard Disk Firmware | Re/code
• Detecting and exploiting path-relative stylesheet import (PRSSI) vulnerabilities | PortSwigger Web Security Blog
• Duplicate SSH Keys Everywhere | Shodan

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – February 17, 2015 (#1956) | Morning Dew