One of my favorite topics is company culture and how it can save or kill a company. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about the potential of relocating your company and the possible change of employee mindset from loyalists to mercenaries. In the world of data, we have two very good posts. On KDnuggets, we have a post about the 9 laws of data mining. It is a solid introduction to things you really need to consider. At Predictive Pop, they have a great visualization for 25 years of music history. If you like Pandora, then the visualization will help you appreciate the relationships between songs a little more.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Loyalists vs Mercenaries | AVC
• Office Politics 101 for Recovering Idealists | DaedTech
• The Prolonged Death Spiral Business Model | Allan Kelly
• How Much For This Software? | Javalobby
• It’s About Finishing, Not About Starting | Javalobby
• What Blocks Your Developers | Javalobby

Design and Development

• How to Keep REST API Credentials Secure | Javalobby
• C++’s Rule of Zero | Nir’s Blog
• Auto-encrypting Serializable Classes | Java Code Geeks
• Misconceptions about code reuse | Arho Huttunen
• Two people coding is twice as productive, right? | Java Code Geeks
• Persistence and DAO Testing Made Simple (With Exparity-Stub and Hamcrest-Bean) | Javalobby

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Brittle systems | DSHR’s Blog

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Fast Approximate Logarithms, Part III: The Formulas | eBay Tech Blog
• Traversing a linearized tree | Bannalia
• Cycle Counting, Memory Stalls, Prefetch and Other Pitfalls | mGBA
• A Better Algorithm for Area Proportional Venn and Euler Diagrams | Ben Frederickson

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Introducing the Music Data Canvas: 25 Years of Music History | Predictive Pop
• Nine Laws of Data Mining, part 1 | KDnuggets

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• LastPass Breach, Password Security, and Reason | Javalobby

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: June 29, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Double Shot #1518 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – June 29, 2015 (#2044) | Morning Dew