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
A new day means a new security issue. Foxglove Security reports on a windows privilege escalation. On DZone Agile, there is a commentary on how happy people still quit their jobs. This is a response to a post recently about employees having their “shields down”. Jeremiah Owyang talks about the collaborative economy and how it… Read More Geek Reading January 20, 2016
It was a fairly slow news day, but there is still plenty of good reading. On DZone Agile, we can read about the “Recruiter Manifesto”. At Code As Craft, they talk about leveling up your organization with system reviews. If you are not reviewing what you are doing, how are you learning how to improve?… Read More Geek Reading December 23, 2015
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
For a slow day, we have a great collection of articles. First, on Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about grit as a predictor of success. I am a big believer in hard work and perseverance being key ingredients to success. At Atlassian, there is a very good post on maintaining focus with a growth mindset.… Read More Geek Reading November 13, 2015
Google and Amazon have been announcing a bundle of fun. Amazon announced QuickSight, Kinesis Firehose, Inspector and EC2 Dedicated Hosts. Rackspace also announced that they are an AWS Managed Services partner. Not to be outdone, Google announced Accelerated Mobile Pages, custom email, apps and more for Google Domains, cloud native MySQL sharding with Vitess and… Read More Geek Reading October 8, 2015
Leading today’s articles, Mozilla announces Webmaker. It is meant to target first-time smart phone users who are mostly mobile-only and give them an opportunity to create on the web. In security, Bits, Please! continues their series on an Android issue, this time getting through to a linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability. LinkedIn talks about QARK, a… Read More Geek Reading August 18, 2015
Google continues to lead the news as they announced their new security offering, My Account. This allows you to take control of your Google account and all of the related security information. David Pichsenmeister discusses what startups can do better by building minimum loveable products. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the… Read More Geek Reading June 2, 2015
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
Venture Beat leads the day with their reporting of Google+ Collections. I have mixed feelings about this mainly because I like having options available but Google+ does not seem to really be gaining mass adoption. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about taking inspiration from failed projects. Everyone should read this, regardless of whether you are… Read More Geek Reading May 5, 2015
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