It was a slow news day, but we still have plenty of good articles. First Johanna Rothman has started a series on Product Owners and learning. I highly recommend these posts if you have any interest in how product features are defined. Today we have part 1 and part 2. On the Android Developers Blog… Read More Geek Reading June 24, 2016 #1135
Today we have a mixed bag of articles. On DZone Agile, we get a good post on how to describe accomplishments on a resume. If you have ever been on the hiring side of an interview, you know that geeks have a terribly difficult time with this. At Machine Learning Mastery, we have an excellent… Read More Geek Reading April 11, 2016 #1081
Another security issue leads our day. Arstechnica reports on a bunch of stolen certificates that allow hackers to bypass code-signing. It is an interesting story and makes you wonder about the real benefits of code-signing. On Amazon Big Data we get a great post about analyzing time series data in real-time with AWS Lambda, Amazon… Read More Geek Reading March 18, 2016 #1066
Leading our day is Atlassian with their post on fighting the perfect product. I fight this battle every day and I know many other product development teams do as well. On High Scalability, we get an introduction to the architecture at Egnyte, where they have a multi-petabyte distributed system. At Java Code Geeks, we get… Read More Geek Reading February 17, 2016 #1044
Today we have an odd collection of articles. First, Amazon posted resources for migrating Parse applications to AWS. With all of the hype surrounding the shutdown, I am surprised it took this long for them to post something like this. Pinterest talks about their internal deployment system, Teletraan. This is important mainly because they plan… Read More Geek Reading February 15, 2016 #1042
It was a slower news day, so today we will focus on some trends. First, there has been a lot of discussion about the JavaScript ecosystem and the proliferation of libraries. At shruubi, they talk about JavaScript fatigue, or more importantly, the exhausting rate of change of the “best practices” for various libraries. On The… Read More Geek Reading February 2, 2016 #1033
VentureBeat starts our day reporting on the new $5 Raspberry Pi Zero. I did not think the Pi could get smaller or cheaper, but I was wrong. Smashing Magazine has a good post on lessons learned from a startup. More importantly, it shows what you need to pay attention to and not just the possible… Read More Geek Reading November 27, 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
The Next Web starts our day by reporting on a hack at the IRS where data from over 100,000 taxpayers was likely stolen. Thankfully, it is not a huge number, but the IRS is one place we do not want data stolen from. Martin Fowler revisits the idea of YAGNI (you aren’t gonna need it)… Read More Geek Reading May 27, 2015
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