Amazon AWS starts our day with the availability of their Elastic Network Adapter. This is more infrastructure from Amazon in their quest to have you own no IT hardware. On Ayende @ Rahien, we have another database internals post, this one about managing records. This post really starts to show how complex database systems are… Read More Geek Reading June 29, 2016 #1138
Leading our day are the improvements in Mozilla’s Firefox. Take a look at the improvements that they talk about to see if you want to give it another try. On Feld Thoughts, we get an excellent post on rebudgeting for the second half of the year. The main point is not to reforecast, but to… Read More Geek Reading June 9, 2016 #1124
Starting our day, we get an interesting launch from Microsoft, their new Planner tool. It is not meant to replace Project, but it does look similar to tools like Trello. It is part of Office 365 which means many people will have access to it, giving it a very simple entry into the market. Adrien… Read More Geek Reading June 8, 2016 #1123
Today we start with some local flavor. Ebay Enterprise, located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, merges with Innotrac to become Radial. Like many local software developers, I also spent part of my career at what used to be GSI Commerce. Google Research tells us about how they are helping webmasters re-secure their websites. The strangest… Read More Geek Reading April 20, 2016 #1088
Leading our day is a report from VentureBeat about Twilio adding Facebook Messenger as a supported platform. This is interesting because Twilio has been focused on SMS/MMS for a long time and adding Messenger could change the pricing and overall dynamics of the service. WordPress released v4.5 “Coleman” of their CMS. As always, it is… Read More Geek Reading April 14, 2016 #1084
On Google Webmaster Central we get a nice feature from Google about deceptive download sites. Google continues to fight for a safer internet. Netflix shows us some really good ways to analyze performance using flame graphs. At KD Nuggets, they give us the “pocket guide” to data science. Obviously, data science is a lot bigger… Read More Geek Reading April 13, 2016 #1083
We have some interesting stories for today. First, from The National Museum of Computing, we get the “Lorenz” story. It is a bit of historical computing that many people tend to forget about. At Overtone Recipes, we get a way to recreate Daft Punk’s Da Funk. I know it is a bit different than my… Read More Geek Reading April 8, 2016 #1080
Microsoft leads the day again with one of its last announcements from last week. SQL Server Developer Edition is now free. This could help get SQL Server into some more companies that are looking to support it but the cost was somewhat prohibitive. On KD Nuggets we get a list of 10 essential books for… Read More Geek Reading April 4, 2016 #1076
Microsoft leads our news today. TechCrunch reports on Microsoft bringing the bash shell to Windows 10. When I first heard this, I was beyond excited. A good unix shell on Windows has been needed for decades. Kubernetes has an ongoing series of posts about their new release, with today’s installment being about new multi-zone clusters. I… Read More Geek Reading March 31, 2016 #1074
Google Research starts our day with an article on deep learning for robots. They talk about networked robots can share their experience with one another to learn more quickly. Skynet might not be far behind 😛 On the Android Developers blog, they announced the first preview of Android N. This preview came as a surprise… Read More Geek Reading March 10, 2016 #1060
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