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 how our passwords need to be longer. The rant is backed by some statistics, so there is some good reasoning there as well.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Career and Process
- It’s Just a Feature for Feature Port | Javalobby
- The Next Most Important Thing | Javalobby
- TDD, Code review and Economics of Software Quality | Java Code Geeks
- How To Become A UX Leader | Smashing Magazine
Development
- Unique approach to observer/observable pattern in Ceylon | Java Code Geeks
- There is a Mojo in My Dojo (How to write a Maven plugin) | Java Code Geeks
- The origins of Trunk Based Development | Paul Hammant
- Java Maven AngularJS Seed Project | Javalobby
- Crazy Cool Chrome Extension (and How to Dig into the Source) | Javalobby
- Version control, collaborative editing and undo | Incidental Complexity
- Apache Camel CXF Example | Java Code Geeks
- Elixir vs Erlang: a question of momentum | DedaSys Journal
- Spring From the Trenches: Returning Git Commit Information as JSON | Java Code Geeks
- Replacing Rails: Part 1 “Lets Go!” | Made By Many
- Docs, Sheets and Forms add-ons now open to all developers | Google Developers Blog
- The Last Line Effect | Intel Developer Zone
- Tips for Building Better Experiences with the New Facebook Login | Facebook Developers
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- On problems with threads in node.js | Future Processing
- bytecode hacking for great justice | Fast Forward Labs
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Scientifically valid, practically invalid | John D. Cook
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- What is DataOps & Why You Need It? | Javalobby
- Bottled Water: Real-time integration of PostgreSQL and Kafka | Confluent
- Yhat develops Rodeo, a Python IDE for data science | Venture Beat
Enterprise and Web Content Management
- WordPress 4.2 “Powell” | WordPress
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- How to Detect Sneaky NSA ‘Quantum Insert’ Attacks | WIRED
- Dyreza’s anticrypt | Weblog Lexsi
- Your Password is Too Damn Short | Coding Horror
Fun and Other stuff
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – April 23, 2015 (#1999) | Morning Dew
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