Leading the day is an interesting look at the problems at GitHub as reported bu Business Insider. Much like any company trying to grow their revenue from a small company, they start to have an identity crisis and some of the early employees depart. Overall, it is not surprising but I am curious to see how it gets handled over time. As usual on Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni gives us a very good post about stamping out creativity. On DZone, we have another great recruiter post about the phantom client. Anyone who has been contacted by recruiters has dealt with this sort of problem.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- What Does Agile Mean to You? | Johanna Rothman
- Making the shift to behavior driven development | Atlassian
- How to Stamp Out Creativity | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
- Stupid Recruiter Tricks V3: The Phantom Client and Recruiter Conflict | DZone Agile
- What Does It Mean To Be An Agile Tester? | DZone Agile
- GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart | Business Insider
Design and Development
- The Essence of Scala | The Scala Programming Language
- Extensible Libraries With ServiceLoader and Spring | DZone Integration
- OpenJDK – Is Now the Time? | DZone Java
- Flexbox & the keyboard navigation disconnect | Tink
- Implied Readability | Java Code Geeks
- Building Reactive Systems with JavaFX | DZone Java
- Creating a Document-Store Hybrid in Postgres 9.5 | and yet
- Unhelpful abstractions | Dave Cheney
- Creating Proxy Objects Using djcproxy | DZone Java
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Dilogarithm, polylogarithm, and related functions | John D Cook
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Start here: Statistics for A/B testing | Guilherme Coelho
- The Marketing Analytics Maturity Model: Where You Are and How to Advance | The Data Point
- Writing Dataflow pipelines with scalability in mind | Google Cloud Big Data Blog
- The Essential Guide to Streaming-first Processing with Apache Flink | Java Code Geeks
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1640 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – February 5, 2016 (#2182) | Morning Dew
- Web Development Reading List #123: Meaningful Git Commits and HTTP Status Codes | Smashing Magazine
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