Radical UX starts our day with a look at nine nasty UX truths. These are some excellent pieces of advice, with my favorite being “color is meaningless”. Color can be used to differentiate ideas in a UI, but overall it does seem like nobody cares otherwise. At Ayende @ Rahien, we continue the database internals… Read More Geek Reading July 12, 2016 #1146
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
Google leads our day with their release of Spaces. Many news sites are calling it a messaging platform, but it feels more like a collaboration platform almost like a wiki. Overall, it seems like an odd thing for Google to be working on unless they are really focused on the business use cases. Michael Bromley… Read More Geek Reading May 18, 2016 #1108
Google Research leads our day with the announcement of SyntaxNet. This is a great release and it will be interesting to see how things evolve. On KD Nuggets they talk about TPOT, a Python tool for automating data science. Machine Learning Mastery talks about understanding your machine learning data with descriptive statistics. This is another… Read More Geek Reading May 16, 2016 #1106
Another slow news day yesterday, so we have a continued focus on development. First, on NOUPE they talk about the Google Resizer tool which shows you how your site responds to different sized devices. It is not a perfect tool, so depending on how you developed for mobile, you might not be getting the right… Read More Geek Reading March 4, 2016 #1056
TechCrunch leads the day with a very cool article about biometric tattoos. Disappointingly, the first applications sound like they will be military in nature, but the idea could lead to some really interesting ideas. Yanir Seroussi has a very good post on the hardest parts of data science. Like many other posts I have shared,… Read More Geek Reading November 25, 2015
Seth Godin starts our day with another excellent post, this one talking about bravery. This is not the heroism type, but the bravery in our daily lives. Matthew Daniels talks about the new trend of journalist engineers, where the stories are almost all about data and visualization, and only accompanied by some text. On DZone… Read More Geek Reading October 28, 2015
Yes, you get a double dose of geek reading today, thanks to my terrible short term memory. In the “other stuff” category, we have two very interesting posts. First, Dilbert (yes, the comic) has an excellent way to start your day. Anyone who writes typical software will know how that feels. Next, TechCrunch reports on… Read More Geek Reading October 16, 2015
Today we focus on some development. First, Dave Winer at Scripting News talks about a bug being “reproducible”. For any software developer that needs to support a product, this can feel like the holy grail some days. The Breakfast Post shows us what 4 different flavors of ML look like when compared to Python. In… Read More Geek Reading May 1, 2015
Yes, it is already September, but I am only a day late for the NoSQL installment of the August job trends. In this update, I am splitting the graphs into two as I include more products. So, for the NoSQL job trends, we will be looking at Cassandra, Redis, Couchbase , SimpleDB, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Riak, Neo4j and MarkLogic. I am including Neo4j for two… Read More NoSQL Job Trends – August 2014
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