Starting off our week, we get more information on the IRS data breach from Krebs on Security. About 390K more people have had their data exposed, bringing the total to near 700K. VentureBeat reports on Microsoft killing Project Astoria, their tool for porting Android apps to Windows 10. This is definitely disappointing, but we will… Read More Geek Reading February 29, 2016 #1052
Google leads the day with their post about protecting the world’s news from digital attack. It is good to see that there is some free tooling to help protect some sites. There is a good article from Programmable Web about providing SDKs if you offer an API. This is true not just for our favorite… Read More Geek Reading February 26, 2016 #1051
There was not a lot of new yesterday, but there is always some interesting reading. On Conversation Agent, we get a very good post on the difference between power and status. Interestingly, they both can wield influence, which is what most people typically want. At DaedTech, they talk about escaping the legacy skill quicksand. As… Read More Geek Reading February 25, 2016 #1050
Today we focus on some business. First, Mike McCue talks about the most powerful lesson he ever learned in business. The “first principles” concept is not something new, but it forces you to think about facts. William R Fry gives us an excellent guide to the Philly tech scene. This is important because I live… Read More Geek Reading February 24, 2016 #1049
Bryan Edds starts our day with his post about the stress and depression that is rampant in the software industry. This is a topic that is important to me because I have seen the effects in both myself and others over my 20+ year career. If you are one of those people having difficulties, you… Read More Geek Reading February 23, 2016 #1048
It was a slow news weekend, but there are plenty of good development posts. First, On DZone we get the logic behind various types of transactions. Unless you are building a very simple administrative application, like a CRUD app, then you are probably dealing with difference types of transactions. Confluent announced the availability of Kafka… Read More Geek Reading February 22, 2016 #1047
There were plenty of interesting articles yesterday. First, The Next Web reports on a car that has no gears and runs on hydrogen. Granted, the car has a top speed of 60 mph, but it is an interesting development regardless. Seth Godin gives us an excellent “manifesto” for small teams. Even if you have a… Read More Geek Reading February 19, 2016 #1046
Leading our day, we have the announcement from the Google Cloud Platform about the general availability of custom machine types. This is very cool, and helps everyone using these platforms. I have always had a problem trying to choose the appropriate configuration for a new server. The Netflix Tech Blog started a series about how… Read More Geek Reading February 18, 2016 #1045
Leading our day is Atlassian with their post on fighting the perfect product. I fight this battle every day and I know many other product development teams do as well. On High Scalability, we get an introduction to the architecture at Egnyte, where they have a multi-petabyte distributed system. At Java Code Geeks, we get… Read More Geek Reading February 17, 2016 #1044
There was not much news yesterday, but there were plenty of good articles. First, at Cambridge Coding we have a presentation on a “gentle and structured” introduction to machine learning. I like these types of presentations because people unfamiliar with the field can get a high level overview of what is going on and it… Read More Geek Reading February 16, 2016 #1043
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