Today we start with an excellent post from Rex Software about 3 women who radically changed the course of technology. It is a nice profile of a few of the women that formed the core of computer science that we have today. On the Android Developers Blog, they tell us how to develop for direct… Read More Geek Reading April 29, 2016 #1095
Leading our day is a post on Both Sides of the Table, where they explain how misunderstanding startup metrics can cost you your business. Google’s Big Data blog gives us an introduction to Capacitor, the new BigQuery columnar storage format. High Scalability has an excellent post on the “platform advantage” and its relation to Google,… Read More Geek Reading April 28, 2016 #1094
Today we focus on the job again as there are some excellent posts to read. First, on DaedTech, they plead for us to stop “geeking out”. I wholeheartedly agree with the ideas. Basically, you can “geek out” but don’t make that the goal. You still need to help people and build the appropriate things. Ben… Read More Geek Reading April 27, 2016 #1093
Today we have some very good AI/ML posts. First, Pete Warden tells us how to break into machine learning. It is some very practical advice on how to get started. Machine Learning Mastery, my new favorite ML blog, talks about boosting and AdaBoost. David Lettier shows us how to develop K-Means from scratch. Lastly, on… Read More Geek Reading April 26, 2016 #1092
There are a lot of good development articles to start the week. First, On DZone Java we get a “getting started” guide for Kotlin. I have started to see a lot more interest in Kotlin this year, so it seems to be a language to watch. On Java Code Geeks we have a beginner’s guide… Read More Geek Reading April 25, 2016 #1091
Reporting from The Next Web leads our day. The Tesla Model X is having some software problems and locking some owners out of their cars. This is probably one of the biggest concerns about software-pervasive cars, bugs. A “highlight” of our childhood is getting modern 🙂 As reported by TechCrunch, Highlights magazine reinvents itself as… Read More Geek Reading April 22, 2016 #1090
Amazon dumped a pile of updates on us today, so we have a few highlights. First, AWS Elastic Beanstalk now has managed platform updates. Amazon Cognito adds user pools to their offering. AWS Device Farm updates so that you now get remote access to devices for interactive testing. There are a bunch of other updates… Read More Geek Reading April 21, 2016 #1089
Today we start with some local flavor. Ebay Enterprise, located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, merges with Innotrac to become Radial. Like many local software developers, I also spent part of my career at what used to be GSI Commerce. Google Research tells us about how they are helping webmasters re-secure their websites. The strangest… Read More Geek Reading April 20, 2016 #1088
There was not a lot of news, but there are plenty of good articles to read. First, we get a few security articles about the same-site cookie attribute. Both chloe and Sjoerd Langkemper talk about how same-site can prevent CSRF. On Flowing Data, we get a visualization that shows how much better Stephen Curry was than… Read More Geek Reading April 19, 2016 #1087
Google leads our day with a post on Google Cloud Platform about the release of the consumer surveys API. It is an interesting little feature that could help a lot of companies. KD Nuggets gives us a few excellent posts as well. First, they give us 12 inspiring women in data science. Obviously, there are… Read More Geek Reading April 18, 2016 #1086
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