Leading off today we have Amazon AWS announcing Educate, their program for students and educators. This is just a really cool idea and a great way to get buy-in early. Another great read is about the bunny theory of code at NCZOnline. The moral of the story is if you commit some code, you should… Read More Geek Reading May 15, 2015
Today is security day. The Chromium blog starts our day by announcing the requirement of extensions being in the Chrome Store for all dev channels. This really limits the number of attack vectors people have with Chrome. Venture Beat reports on the VENOM vulnerability, which at least Amazon AWS states they are protected from. This… Read More Geek Reading May 14, 2015
I rarely talk about funding or acquisitions, but today is one of those days. First, TechCrunch reports on Verizon buying AOL for $4.4 billion. That is one big number and shows that Verizon wants to become a full media company. The second item comes from a MarkLogic press release where they announce $102 million in… Read More Geek Reading May 13, 2015
Leading off today is another great article about startups, Dynamic Founder Agreements, on Javalobby. Who owns what, and what happens when they leave are issues that startups need to deal with at some point and this article has some really good advice. At .py in the sky, we see that Python 3 is finally gaining… Read More Geek Reading May 12, 2015
Today we are going to focus on the business side of things. First, an excellent article from Heidi Roizen about building a unicorn but paying attention to the terms of funding. On the Agile Zone, Tim Wise talks about “the business” when dealing with agile projects. Ragawald has a great discussion about whether you know… Read More Geek Reading May 11, 2015
Leading off today, we have Microsoft talking about bringing asm.js to Microsoft Edge. It is definitely interesting to see Microsoft making such a decision. At Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about the learning process and the role of experience. Following that same theme, Adrian Pelletier thinks there are no experts in the web industry mainly… Read More Geek Reading May 8, 2015
Let me start by apologizing for the downtime today. There was some configuration that I had obviously forgotten to do because the database hostname was changing. Obviously, that happened late yesterday and I figured it out this morning. So, the 10 people that look at the blog while I am sleeping will have to come… Read More Geek Reading May 7, 2015
Today ends up being another dev day. EmberJS announces that the new Glimmer rendering engine is now available in canary builds. This is big news for anyone using Ember. On Javalobby, there is discussion of vorlon.js and how to use it to debug your javascript remotely. Lastly, Superfeedr talks about reading the HTTP raw body… Read More Geek Reading May 6, 2015
Venture Beat leads the day with their reporting of Google+ Collections. I have mixed feelings about this mainly because I like having options available but Google+ does not seem to really be gaining mass adoption. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about taking inspiration from failed projects. Everyone should read this, regardless of whether you are… Read More Geek Reading May 5, 2015
We start the week with recode reporting on the news that Grooveshark is shutting down. This should not be terribly surprising, but it is disappointing. VentureBeat reports on the Tesla announcement about Tesla Energy and the new batteries for home and business. I can’t wait to see how this changes the industry. Lastly, Mozilla has… Read More Geek Reading May 4, 2015
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