Today we start with a story from VentureBeat where they report on research finding a vulnerability in 95% of Android devices. At this point, we have not heard anything about this being exploited in the wild, so we should be safe for now. Tomasz Nurkiewicz talks about RESTful services being “harmful”. The basic idea is that the resource/verb connection does not always work well for applications.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- Self forming teams at scale | Brian Harry’s blog
- Intelligence | The Programmer’s Paradox
- What You Can Learn from a Scorpion | Both Sides of the Table
Design and Development
- See Android Go! Go, Android. Go! | Coding Velocity
- Story-Boarding in a D3.js dashboard using Intro.js | Anmol Koul
- RESTful considered harmful | Tomasz Nurkiewicz
- Hooking C Functions at Runtime | Thomas Finch
- The Sass Mixins/Placeholders I Can’t Live Without for Responsive Web Design | Sift Science
- WebSocket Client API in Java EE 7 | Java Code Geeks
- Fun with BPF, or, shutting down a TCP listening socket the hard way | python sweetness
- Detecting VPN (and its configuration!) and proxy users on the server side | ValdikSS
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Modern JavaScript Tooling | React Kung Fu
- Optimistic UI and Reactive Programming with Elm | Alexander Thiemann
- Autocomplete using Tries | Mahdi Dibaiee
- User experience on the main path – get it or get lost | Ayende @ Rahien
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Good Problems to Have: The #1 Reason to leave scale for later | Ascent
- Adventures in High Speed Networking on Azure | Age of Ascent
- Tracing JITs and modern CPUs: Part 2 – Issue #6 | lukego
- Is using Unsafe really about speed or functionality? | Vanilla Java
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Introduction To Monte Carlo Methods | alexhwoods
- Speech-Based, Natural Language Conversational Recommender Systems | Peter Grasch
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Infosec’s inability to quantify risk | Errata Security
- Researchers find vulnerability that affects 95% of Android devices | VentureBeat
Link Collections
- The Daily Six Pack: July 27, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
- Double Shot #1527 | A Fresh Cup
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