Venture Beat leads off today reporting on the announcement that Charter Communications will acquire Time Warner Cable. There is a much greater likelihood that this deal works compared to the Comcast deal. FastML talks about real-time interactive movie recommendations. On Flowing Data, they point us to a fascinating interactive graph where you can look at… Read More Geek Reading May 26, 2015
There were a lot of development articles over the weekend. On Building Real Software, they talk about application security and the gaps between builders and defenders. Edmund Kirwan shows us a structural package analysis of Apache Lucene over the years. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Startups,… Read More Geek Reading May 25, 2015
Leading off today we have Amazon AWS announcing Educate, their program for students and educators. This is just a really cool idea and a great way to get buy-in early. Another great read is about the bunny theory of code at NCZOnline. The moral of the story is if you commit some code, you should… Read More Geek Reading May 15, 2015
Leading off today is another great article about startups, Dynamic Founder Agreements, on Javalobby. Who owns what, and what happens when they leave are issues that startups need to deal with at some point and this article has some really good advice. At .py in the sky, we see that Python 3 is finally gaining… Read More Geek Reading May 12, 2015
Microsoft leads most of the news due to the announcements at their conference. As reported by The Next Web, they announced that developers will be able to reuse their Android code to bring apps to Windows 10. Having a bridge between ecosystems should help drive the availability of apps. Also reported by The Next Web,… Read More Geek Reading April 30, 2015
Three great articles lead off our day. First, Seth Godin prompts us to raise our standards and to make sure we have a boss that wants the same. In business, complacency can mean death. Fred Wilson at AVC talks about “dumbing things down”. More appropriately, if you really want to win you need to make… Read More Geek Reading April 23, 2015
Well, it is obviously data day because there are a lot of data-related articles today. Google Cloud Platform announced the availability of Google Cloud Dataflow. Docker and Microsoft released a Docker Client for Windows. For those of you who want some light reading, High Scalability talks about the Google Borg paper. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading April 17, 2015
Today we have a few top stories for you. First, Apple announced their acquisition of FoundationDB. I am curious what this purchase is really about, but we will have to wait and see. Both Sides of the Table brings us an interview with Fred Wilson that is very informative. Lastly, Seth Godin talks about how… Read More Geek Reading March 25, 2015
Just in case you did not think mobile payments were about to take off, Facebook introduces friend-to-friend payments. Clearly, Facebook wants some skin in the game before the industry really gets going. GigaOm may be gone, but the Structure conference went on because the attendees organized their own conference. This is interesting for a few… Read More Geek Reading March 19, 2015
Today we have yet another Docker article, this one on Javalobby discussing how to build an environment you can trust. Docker as a quick developer environment has always been appealing, so it is definitely a good post to read. At Yeller they talk about how incuriosity will kill your infrastructure. Basically, if something doesn’t look… Read More Geek Reading March 18, 2015
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