Google leads the day again, this time with the announcement of offline maps and searching. Adam Bourg gives us an interesting look at scrum as a poor process and not truly agile. There are some good ideas and others that you may not agree with. Baremetrics has an excellent post on the potential perils of… Read More Geek Reading November 11, 2015
Leading today we have another post about fear. In this case, the engineering blog at Teachers Pay Teachers talks about the fear of breaking things and how that affects culture. Anyone who has been in that kind of environment knows how toxic it can be. For all of you Java developers out there, DZone Java… Read More Geek Reading October 21, 2015
The Geekess leads the day again, but this time it is a very positive post about what makes a good community. More than anything, I think the post was only written because of the much larger number of positive comments on her last post. On Rants on Machine Learning, they show us what to do… Read More Geek Reading October 7, 2015
Facebook leads the day with their announcement of instant articles and how developers can integrate their CMS with it. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about the paralysis of choice. if you read it with your customers and consumers in mind, you may find that you make things too difficult for them. Google Project Zero… Read More Geek Reading September 24, 2015
Today we lead off with the start of a fascinating story on Krebs on Security, where he details his tracking of a skimmer gang in Mexico. On Application Security, they give us an example of CSRF against search in Lucene. Flowing Data shows us the new “exploration” features of Google Sheets. This is actually quite interesting for… Read More Geek Reading September 15, 2015
Leading off today is another security issue, iDigitalTimes reports on malware found pre-installed on Xiaomi, Huawei and Lenovo phones. In the development section, we have several good articles. First, at the Developsense Blog we have a series of posts regarding “Oracles” in testing, with today’s installment being part 4. NCZOnline talks about the size of… Read More Geek Reading September 9, 2015
We do not start today with great news. The NY Times reports on the sudden death of Joseph Traub, a professor I once had in college. He was basically a legend in the academic world, and it is a shame to see him go. In other news, Google Cloud Platform announced the general availability of… Read More Geek Reading August 27, 2015
Today we start with some good security articles. First, Reuters reports on US researchers showing how computers can be hijacked to send data using sound waves. Outside of the security implications, this is really cool stuff. The BBC has a good article on some spyware demo that shows how spooks hack mobile phones. This is… Read More Geek Reading August 6, 2015
We have another good mix of articles for today. Edmund Kirwan talks about structural simplicity. This is important as it helps with understanding and maintenance of your codebase. Mozilla Hacks continues their series of articles on ES6, with this one about Collections. On Flowing Data, there is a cool visualization hack using Microsoft Excel to… Read More Geek Reading June 23, 2015
Fairly slow news day, so today we have an odd selection of articles. Every job has its issues, but we tend to overlook some due to salary or benefits. DaedTech takes an interesting look at this in his post, “Career Advancement for the Low Price of Your Soul”. Martin Fowler talks about how microservices may… Read More Geek Reading June 4, 2015
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