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… Read More Geek Reading July 11, 2016 #1145
Today we have some excellent articles, so make sure you read more than what I highlight. First, Twitter open sourced Heron, its’ distributed stream computation system. I am not sure how many companies have a need for this kind of thing, but it is good to see it available. On the Intent HQ Engineering blog,… Read More Geek Reading May 27, 2016 #1115
Today is all about Google. They dropped a ton of news at I/O. First, Firebase is becoming a unified app platform. Android is getting Instant Apps. There is a bunch of new information for Android including more details of the N-release and Android Studio. Firebase Analytics are being added to Google Analytics. This would normally… Read More Geek Reading May 19, 2016 #1109
Leading the day we have GoDaddy and their announcement of the availability of their Cloud Servers and Applications. GoDaddy has been trying to clean up their image and get into more technical hosting, so this follows what I have seen in the recent past. I am not sure if it is a great idea to… Read More Geek Reading March 22, 2016 #1068
Oddly enough, Microsoft leads the day with their announcement of the availability of SQL Server on Linux. This is clearly a different Microsoft than we are used to. Instagram gives us a peak into their work on performance and usage. Ben McCormick talks about the sad state of the Backbone.js ecosystem. I am not sure… Read More Geek Reading March 9, 2016 #1059
There are a lot of interesting articles today, but not one particular area of focus. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about why simple rules produce better decisions. Google Webmaster Central continues their #NoHacked series, giving us information on how to fix the injected gibberish URL hack. Google Cloud Platform announces the ability to backup… Read More Geek Reading August 25, 2015
Today, the focus is on some development articles. First, Parse announces that they are open sourcing their SDKs. Next, Ember.js announces the release of Ember.js 2.0, a big milestone in that development. Smashing Magazine talks about the idea of “critical CSS”, the CSS that is needed to make the top part of the page render… Read More Geek Reading August 14, 2015
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