Overall, the Apple WWDC was somewhat underwhelming. However, The Next Web reports on an interesting tidbit about Siri opening up to all third-party apps. Chef released Habitat a new open source project for automating applications. I have not dug into it yet, so I can’t comment too much, but it is good to see the… Read More Geek Reading June 16, 2016 #1129
We have a lot of interesting posts today. First, on the morning paper, we learn about identifying and quantifying architectural debt. This is one of many papers currently being highlighted that deal with some research around software engineering and code quality. At Salesforce + Open Source, we get the release of Runway, a distributed systems… Read More Geek Reading June 15, 2016 #1128
Some big news leads the day. First, LinkedIn announced they are being acquired by Microsoft. According to reports, the purchase price is over $26 Billion in all cash. I have no idea why Microsoft wants this deal, so we will have to wait and see what happens. Google announced Tango, with the first enable phone,… Read More Geek Reading June 14, 2016 #1127
Starting our day, The Android Blog talks abou ta new feature, Nearby, which allows you to discover things around you. It obviously requires Location services to be active, but it supposedly requires bluetooth as well, which might mean it will be hooking into beacons at some point. Tim Romero’s post about turning down investment money… Read More Geek Reading June 13, 2016 #1126
Leading our day is a post from Kent Beck about mastering programming. It is more of an outline than a full post, but it still has a ton of excellent information. At Ayende @ Rahien we have a great series of posts regarding the “guts n’ glory” of database internals. Today’s installment talks about the… Read More Geek Reading June 10, 2016 #1125
Leading our day are the improvements in Mozilla’s Firefox. Take a look at the improvements that they talk about to see if you want to give it another try. On Feld Thoughts, we get an excellent post on rebudgeting for the second half of the year. The main point is not to reforecast, but to… Read More Geek Reading June 9, 2016 #1124
Starting our day, we get an interesting launch from Microsoft, their new Planner tool. It is not meant to replace Project, but it does look similar to tools like Trello. It is part of Office 365 which means many people will have access to it, giving it a very simple entry into the market. Adrien… Read More Geek Reading June 8, 2016 #1123
Starting our day, we have a post from Johanna Rothman about telling your problems to the duck. If you have not heard about this before, it is an interesting “problem solving” technique where you talk to a rubber duck. Hearing yourself talk about a problem can help you understand it better and potentially come up… Read More Geek Reading June 7, 2016 #1122
Leading our day, we have a wonderful acquisition. Medium acquired Superfeedr. This is very cool because Superfeedr was really started as a geeky tool for blogs but became a larger player. I am hoping that Medium allows it to flourish. Proper Fixation has an excellent post about avoiding “easy” things. Basically, if you want your… Read More Geek Reading June 6, 2016 #1121
It is that time of year again as TechCrunch reports on Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report. It is always an excellent analysis of the trends and should be required reading for everyone in our industry. TechCrunch also has the first report of the Salesforce purchase of Demandware. I don’t talk about acquisitions too often,… Read More Geek Reading June 3, 2016 #1120
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