We start our week with a post from All Things Distributed about 10 lessons from 10 years of Amazon web services. It is an interesting look at AWS from someone who has been there from the beginning. On Java Code Geeks, they give us an introduction to use Apache Spark Streaming with Scala. Another good… Read More Geek Reading March 14, 2016 #1062
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
Today we are going to focus on the business side of things. First, an excellent article from Heidi Roizen about building a unicorn but paying attention to the terms of funding. On the Agile Zone, Tim Wise talks about “the business” when dealing with agile projects. Ragawald has a great discussion about whether you know… Read More Geek Reading May 11, 2015
This is a guest post from Krister Ungerboeck, the CEO of Ungerboeck Software International. The most successful event planners have started using mobile technology to more quickly connect with customers and meet their needs. New mobile applications can drive business to their websites and help them provide better service. Yet, current mobile technology has several… Read More HTML5’s Value For Mobile Event Apps
As the year comes to a close, everyone is posting predictions about the new year as well as reviewing their predictions from the prior year. Here at Regular Geek, I would like to look at the trends to determine what changed things and what trends we should watch in the coming year, not as predictions… Read More A Look Back And A Look Ahead At 2012
Some of you reading this post will know that many of my blog posts are syndicated at DZone.com. Some of you are probably asking one of two questions: Your blog content can be syndicated to a site like DZone? What is DZone? First, blog content all over the world is syndicated to other sites, even… Read More Getting Your HTML5 Fix: HTML5 At DZone
At this point, you are probably tired of hearing how HTML5 is changing everything. Everything in web applications and even mobile applications are changing. HTML5 even lets you create a web application that works almost like a desktop application. Yes, there is a lot of hype about HTML5, especially when you consider that the specification… Read More A Simple Introduction To HTML5
As the year comes to a close, it is time to reflect on what happened in the past year and what will come in the next year. Conveniently, I wrote a 2010 predictions post last year, so I can easily review how accurate those predictions were: Many tablets are released to much fanfare, and people… Read More A Look Back And A Look Ahead
For many years, people have been concerned with how applications were structured. This concept became very popular with the client-server applications built with tools like PowerBuilder and Visual Basic. In the late 1990’s, there was a move towards 3-tier applications (client, middleware and server) as web development first started to take hold. As developers started… Read More Development Concerns Moving Away From The Controller
There were two articles this week that caught my interest. Even though these are two mostly unrelated articles, they actually fit together in a way that is more interesting. The first post is from GigaOm about mobile apps being useless when not connected to the internet. Have you ever tried to use your mobile apps… Read More A Request To Unite Local Data, Multiple Devices And Cloud Storage
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