Microsoft leads most of the news due to the announcements at their conference. As reported by The Next Web, they announced that developers will be able to reuse their Android code to bring apps to Windows 10. Having a bridge between ecosystems should help drive the availability of apps. Also reported by The Next Web,… Read More Geek Reading April 30, 2015
Two top stories lead our day. First, Mashape open sources its Kong API management platform, which could be a big deal for anyone that writes externally consumable APIs. The second story is at Broken Links where they talk about the future of the open web. I am highlighting this one because it is something we… Read More Geek Reading April 29, 2015
Wired starts our day with an interesting story about how our satellites can be used for mapping earthquakes. Following on that we have a few good scalability articles. On ferd.ca, we get to read about lessons learned working on large-scale server software. This article also gives us the best quote on distributed systems that I… Read More Geek Reading April 28, 2015
Leading off today is an interesting story from Cardiff University about a potential “highly effective” treatment for asthma. This is a big deal because both my daughter and myself struggle with it, so you get to read some interesting science. Another link blog milestone today, the Morning Dew posted it’s 2000th Dew Drop! It is… Read More Geek Reading April 27, 2015
WordPress kicks off our day by announcing release 4.2 “Powell”. So, if you are running WordPress, you need to update. Three good articles are highlighted in the security section. On Wired, they report on how the NSA “Quantum Insert” attacks work. Weblog Lexsi talks about Dyreza’s anticrypt. Lastly, Coding Horror goes on a rant about… Read More Geek Reading April 24, 2015
Three great articles lead off our day. First, Seth Godin prompts us to raise our standards and to make sure we have a boss that wants the same. In business, complacency can mean death. Fred Wilson at AVC talks about “dumbing things down”. More appropriately, if you really want to win you need to make… Read More Geek Reading April 23, 2015
There are plenty of interesting articles today. First, WordPress releases v4.1.2, which is mostly a security release. Mobilegeddon began and Google Webmaster Central has a nice FAQ about the update. Mattias Geniar talks about Magento eCommerce PHP remote code execution. NCC Group tells a story about recovering user data from a TrueCrypt drive. Lastly, I… Read More Geek Reading April 22, 2015
Today we have a big mix of good articles. On Both Sides of the Table, there is a good discussion of understanding your character as an entrepreneur. This also applies to most of your career, so take a long look at it. In development, Henrik Warne has a great list of lessons learned in software… Read More Geek Reading April 21, 2015
Leading off our Monday morning is a description of MoMA’s digital art vault. It is interesting to see how technology is used outside of our core industry. Variance Explained talks about the journey programmers must take in writing a million lines of bad code. The Chromium blog gives us an update on Google’s experimental protocol… Read More Geek Reading April 20, 2015
Well, it is obviously data day because there are a lot of data-related articles today. Google Cloud Platform announced the availability of Google Cloud Dataflow. Docker and Microsoft released a Docker Client for Windows. For those of you who want some light reading, High Scalability talks about the Google Borg paper. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading April 17, 2015
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