Krebs on Security starts our week with an update on the Wendy’s data breach. They are up to over 1000 stores affected. Brian de Heus shows us how to hide a payload in a PNG using Python. At Machine Learning Mastery, they give us some ideas on how to deal with missing values in machine learning data.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Startups, Career and Process

• 7 books that taught me how to code | Code And Graphics
• How Reviewing Strangers’ Code on Github Can Make You a Better Programmer | DZone Agile
• Good coding instincts will eventually kick you in the teeth | Free Code Camp
• Analysis | The Programmer’s Paradox
• What Makes A Great Software Engineer? | Elliot Chance

Design and Development

• Why I Write Cucumber Steps with Step Definitions that Have No Code | Kamil Nicieja
• Hiding a payload in PNG files with Python | Brian de Heus
• Building an Ember App Without a Back-End | Code School Blog
• Using Rust in an Embedded Project: A Simple Example | Atomic Object
• Reverse debugging for Python | PyPy Status Blog
• EventStorming – What You Need to Know | Daniel Whittaker
• Debug Legacy Code by Starting with a Unit Test | Atomic Object
• The 6 Month Bug (and why I will never abbreviate variable names) | beehollander
• Ratpacked: Create a Partial Response | DZone Integration
• Writing Microservices in Flask Using Python | Code Ahoy
• 6 Characteristics That Make an API Great for Application Integration | DZone Integration

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Performance of trait methods | The Scala Programming Language

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• R: Sentiment analysis of morning pages | Mark Needham
• How To Handle Missing Values In Machine Learning Data With Weka | Machine Learning Mastery

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• A Full Comparison of Redshift and BigQuery | panoply.io

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• 3 Major Ways Agile Differs From DevOps | DZone Agile

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• 1,025 Wendy’s Locations Hit in Card Breach | Krebs on Security

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 8, 2016 (#2283) | Morning Dew
• Programming Digest #167 for July 11, 2016 | Weekly Programming Newsletter