Leading us off is a joint venture between two behemoths. Google and Microsoft are working together regarding Angular2 and TypeScript. Seth Godin gives us something interesting to think about in his post regarding the asymmetry of decay. Northwestern University brings us another interesting topic, where they found that creative genius is driven by distraction.

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

Top Stories

• The asymmetry of decay | Seth Godin
• Angular 2: Built on TypeScript | TypeScript – MSDN Blogs

Career and Process

• Dogma Driven Development | Javalobby
• Principles that Make Change Management Successful | Agile Zone

Development

• A fresh look on accessing database on JVM platform: Slick from Typesafe | Java Code Geeks
• A beginner’s guide to JPA and Hibernate Cascade Types | Vlad Mihalcea
• JMS Message Tuning | Javalobby
• Testing in Rails | Revaluate
• JPA 2.1: Unsynchronized persistence context | Java Code Geeks
• Why Non-Blocking? | Java Code Geeks
• Understanding Regular Expressions 2: Groups and Captures | benroux.me

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Python: scikit-learn/lda: Extracting topics from QCon talk abstracts | Mark Needham
• ARF: Avoiding a Trip to Siberia (with Databases) | ActionIQ

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Calculate PageRanks with Apache Hadoop | Javalobby
• Introducing Airpal | Airbnb Engineering
• Build a loyal user base with three new Mobile App Analytics reports | Google Analytics Blog

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Utilizing NLP To Detect APT in DNS | OpenDNS Security Labs

Fun and Other stuff

• Creative Genius Driven by Distraction | Northwestern University News
• Compositional Music Composition | Underscore

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – March 5, 2015 (#1968) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1483 | A Fresh Cup