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 development. In the “other stuff” category, John Cook has a very interesting look at some of the basic arithmetic rules and why you might not want to apply them. File this article under “don’t always blindly follow the rules, question them sometimes.”

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

Career and Process

• Understanding Your True Character as an Entrepreneur | Both Sides of the Table
• One on Ones or “Get to Know Your Team” | Javalobby
• Defining The Corporate Hierarchy | DaedTech
• It’s Easier to Be Honest the Second Time Around | Numerate Choir

Development

• R: Removing for loops | Mark Needham
• Configure a Spring JMS application with Spring Boot and annotation support | Java Code Geeks
• 5 AngularJS Antipatterns & Pitfalls | I care, I share, I’m Nathan LeClaire.
• The Wrong Kind of Paranoia | programming in the twenty-first century
• Lessons Learned in Software Development | Henrik Warne
• Nobody cares about your code | Musing Mortoray
• Jsonnet: a more elegant language for composing JSON | Google Open Source Blog
• Elixir – The next big language for the web | Creative Deletion
• Null Pointer Dereferencing Causes Undefined Behavior | Intel Developer Zone

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning | Pete Warden
• Datamining for marketing: a real simple explanation of LIFT | Mixotricha

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• A beginner’s guide to Cache synchronization strategies | Vlad Mihalcea
• On Neo4j Indexes, Match & Merge | Javalobby
• More on (Transactional) MySQL Metadata Locks | Javalobby

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Microsoft Announces Azure Service Fabric, A New Framework For Building Highly Scalable Cloud Services | TechCrunch

Fun and Other stuff

• Reaching and re-engaging users on the mobile web | Chromium Blog
• Pedantic arithmetic rules | John D. Cook
• RFIDs, Encryption, and Stop Rules… Oh My! | The Grumpy Programmer

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – April 20, 2015 (#1996) | Morning Dew