Microsoft leads the day again with one of its last announcements from last week. SQL Server Developer Edition is now free. This could help get SQL Server into some more companies that are looking to support it but the cost was somewhat prohibitive. On KD Nuggets we get a list of 10 essential books for the data enthusiast. This is a good list of books to get someone started if they are interested. In the ongoing saga of NPM and LeftPad, divan’s blog has an interesting perspective with some tooling to aid in the problem.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- It’s Okay Not To Lead | DaedTech
- 4 Skills Every Test Team Needs | DZone Agile
- Pair Programming: When Should You “Shoulder Ship It” | DZone Agile
- The Customer is Not Always Right | DZone Agile
Design and Development
- Software Can’t Live On Its Own | Java Code Geeks
- The Promises and Challenges of std::async Task-based Parallelism in C++11 | DZone Java
- Microservices Approach to Processing System Logs into Real Time Actionable Events | DZone Integration
- Type Checking Modular Multiple Dispatch with Parametric Polymorphism and Multiple Inheritance | Lambda the Ultimate
- LeftPad and Go: can tooling help? | divan’s blog
- Scala: Higher-Order and Anonymous Functions | DZone Java
- Java 8 Deferred Invocation with Java Util Logging | Inspired by Actual Events
- Why I don’t use CSS preprocessors | 456 Berea Street
- How I Learned to Love TDD | Atomic Object
- Clang vs. GCC – code coverage checking | RKD’s Blog
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Avoiding Complexity of Machine Learning Problems | KD Nuggets
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition is now free | SQL Server Blog
- Top 10 Essential Books for the Data Enthusiast | KD Nuggets
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- How Docker Makes Testing More Efficient | DZone Integration
- Scalable and resilient Django with Kubernetes | Harish Narayanan
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – April 1, 2016 (#2221) | Morning Dew
- Web Development Reading List #131: Git 2.8, CSS Grids And The Key To Good Code | Smashing Magazine
- Programming Digest #153 for April 4, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter
- Quick links | Geeking with Greg
- Data Science Roundup #28: AlphaGo, Building Data Science Teams, and Why Calculus is So Last Century | The Data Point
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