There are a lot of good articles today, so set aside some time for reading. Leading the day we have TechCrunch reporting on the Docker acquisition of Unikernel Systems. It will be interesting to see how Docker uses the technology. Kaggle introduced Kaggle Datasets, so you can review and use some of the datasets from… Read More Geek Reading January 25, 2016
Google leads the day with the announcement from their cultural institute about 1000 museums at your fingertips. The coolest part is that you can zoom into the images so far that you can see the brushstrokes. ThreatPost reports on a serious Linux kernel vulnerability and its patch. High Scalability has an interesting post on scaling… Read More Geek Reading January 22, 2016
Starting off our week we have The Modern Team talking about flat corporate structures and how they may not work in practice. I think people are not really ready for true flat structures just given our experience, and flat requires a huge change in our basic thinking. TechCrunch has an excellent post about the platform… Read More Geek Reading November 30, 2015
Late last week, there were two comics that were just perfect. First, XKCD gives their explanation of Git. If you are just starting with Git, it will sound all too familiar. The second comic is Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller, where it shows “Youth Revival Therapy”. I included this mainly because I know a bunch… Read More Geek Reading November 2, 2015
Krebs on Security starts our week with two security breaches. First, 15 million consumers could be affected by the Experian data breach, which is also reported by TechCrunch who talks about the T-Mobile data inclusion in the breach. The second breach is at Scottrade, which affects 4.6 million consumers. Clearly, the Experian breach is something… Read More Geek Reading October 5, 2015
In part 1 of the programming language job trends, we reviewed Java, C++, C#, Objective C, and Visual Basic. In today’s installment, we review trends for PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and PERL. Watch for part 3 in the next few days, where we will look at some emerging languages and others gaining steam. First, let’s look at the trends from Indeed.com: Much like the languages in part… Read More Programming Language Job Trends Part 2 – August 2014
In part 1 of the programming language job trends, we looked at Java, C++, C#, Objective C, and Visual Basic. In today’s installment, we review the trends for PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and PERL. Watch for part 3 in the next few days, where we will look at Erlang, Groovy, Scala, Lisp, and Clojure. First, let’s look at the trends from Indeed.com: As you can see, there… Read More Programming Language Job Trends Part 2 – February 2014
The next installment of the August job trends is for “web and scripting languages”. This list currently includes Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Groovy and Erlang. I looked at including Clojure during this update, but the demand still needs to increase a bit. If you think I should be including another language, please let me know in the comments. First, let’s look… Read More Web And Scripting Programming Language Job Trends – August 2013
The second post in the February job trends posts focuses on what I call “web and scripting languages”. This list currently includes Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Groovy and Erlang. If you think I should be including another language, please let me know in the comments. First, let’s look at the trends from Indeed.com: Much like the traditional language trends, the trends… Read More Web And Scripting Programming Language Job Trends – February 2013
In the last post I reviewed the trends for traditional languages like C# and Java. Today, we return to a list I call “web and scripting languages” because I do not have a better name. This list currently includes Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Groovy and Erlang. If you think I should be including another language, please let me know in the… Read More Web And Scripting Programming Language Job Trends – August 2012
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