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 Garvey has a great post on “real work” vs “fake work”. Sometimes fake work seems like real work, so that line is really blurry. On DZone Agile we get a post about your dream job no longer being your dream job. Passion is important, but you can’t sacrifice balance. Everyone needs a break sometimes.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- Real Work | Ben Garvey
- Programmers are Humans, Too: How to Get Crusty Developers to Change | DZone Agile
- When the Dream Disappears From Your Dream Job | DZone Agile
- Management work: Strategy and Planning? | Allan Kelly
- Please Stop “Geeking Out” | DaedTech
Design and Development
- The Parameterless Generic Method Antipattern | Java Code Geeks
- First Steps to Using Spring Boot and Cassandra | DZone Java
- Top-8 Mistakes in A/B Testing To Avoid | Maxymizely Blog
- Java Builders From The Start | DZone Java
- Higher-rank and higher-kinded types | Stephan Boyer
- Scalaz features for everyday usage part 1: Typeclasses and Scala extensions | Java Code Geeks
- Collaborators and Libraries: Java Design Patterns for Success | DZone Java
- Segfaults are our friends and teachers | Kamal Marhubi
- Component Based Architecture | DZone Integration
- Prototypal Object-Oriented Programming using JavaScript | A List Apart
- Protocol-Oriented TableView and CollectionView | Basem Emara
- Is There a Simple Coverage Metric? | Developsense Blog
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Tutorial on Collaborative Filtering and Matrix Factorization | Lazy Programmer
- Predicting Churn | Swan Intelligence
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- How to Build Applications on a NoSQL Document Database and Perform Analytics in Place | Java Code Geeks
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Service Discovery with Docker and Consul: part 1 | Java Code Geeks
Link Collections
- Web Development Reading List #134: AI, Keyboard Interactions And Living Style Guides | Smashing Magazine
- Double Shot #1675 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – April 26, 2016 (#2238) | Morning Dew
Regular Geek 