Leading our day is an excellent post on First Round Review. They talk about practical frameworks for beating burnout. This topic gets talked about a lot, but burnout is very real for a lot of people. Google Cloud Platform announced the beta availability of Ruby on Google App Engine. Honestly, this feels like a late… Read More Geek Reading May 6, 2016 #1100
Google leads the day with their announcement of the Chromecast 2 and Chromecast Audio, as reported by TechCrunch. I love my Chromecast, and it is possible that I will now be getting another one. Michael Erasmus talks about TF-IDF in his 10 minute tutorial. For anyone implementing search strategies on some collection of documents, this… Read More Geek Reading October 1, 2015
Valeria Maltoni starts our day with her latest post on Conversation Agent. She talks about APIs as personal systems, and it is an interesting look at our use of applications and our data. Andreessen Horowitz gives us 16 more startup metrics. Just like their first 16 metrics, this is another must read. Johanna Rothman adds… Read More Geek Reading September 25, 2015
Today we have a few good security related stories. First, arstechnica reports on a new attack on Tor that can deanonymize hidden services with “surprising accuracy”. Next, The Register talks about Pager Duty being hacked weeks ago and just coming clean about it. The Next Web reports on a DNS exploit that is already in… Read More Geek Reading August 4, 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
TechCrunch has a great post on the “hidden” cofounders, basically significant others. More interestingly, TechCrunch has had a roll of insightful posts lately in addition to the pile of tech “news”. In other stories, Pinterest tells us a little about how they scale some parts of their infrastructure. Seeing how sites scale things is always… Read More Geek Reading March 9, 2015
Leading us off is a joint venture between two behemoths. Google and Microsoft are working together regarding Angular2 and TypeScript. Seth Godin gives us something interesting to think about in his post regarding the asymmetry of decay. Northwestern University brings us another interesting topic, where they found that creative genius is driven by distraction. As… Read More Geek Reading March 6, 2015
Google makes another big move, this time announcing Google Flights. It isn’t a huge deal yet, but this definitely feels like it could be much bigger. Google also announce Google Play for Work, in a pitch at Android for businesses. Lastly, on Building Real Software they talk about how DevOps is not about speed it… Read More Geek Reading February 26, 2015
Leading off today is Microsoft announcing support for asm.js to the Windows 10 JavaScript engine. Traditionally, IE performance around JavaScript, JSON and XML has been lagging the other browsers, so this could be some good news. Ayende @ Rahien brings us another installment of his performance series, this one focusing on the performance affects of… Read More Geek Reading February 19, 2015
Today is the NoSQL installment of the February job trends. For the NoSQL job trends, I am continuing to focus on Cassandra, Redis, Voldemort, SimpleDB, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, and Riak. As was stated previously, Hadoop continues to be the clear leader in demand and still flattens the trends of other solutions. However, the gap is steadily shrinking and… Read More NoSQL Job Trends – February 2013
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