As I slowly get back from vacation, I am just posting the links for today. Things should return to normal tomorrow. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Startups, Career and Process How to train your Agile | Dan North Mission Driven Founders | AVC The Corrosive Nature… Read More Geek Reading July 5, 2016 #1141
It was a fairly quiet weekend, with several good posts. First, on Java Code Geeks we get an introduction to Otto, the next generation of Vagrant. Facebook Code talks about Torchnet which helps build clean prototypes for deep learning. At Machine Learning Mastery, we get a crash course in convolution neural networks. As always, enjoy… Read More Geek Reading June 27, 2016 #1136
Another acquisition leads our day. RedHat is acquiring 3scale, an API Management company. I have worked with 3scale in the past and they were a pleasure to work with, so this is a great exit for them. Google Cloud Platform talks about a better way to bootstrap MongoDB on their platform. This is cool because… Read More Geek Reading June 23, 2016 #1134
Yet another acquisition to start our day, Twitter acquires Magic Pony Technology. This is an interesting purchase as it seems to be another technology buy from Twitter. On Google Analytics, we get a post about a wealth of features in Google Data Studio. The push to get social data into the tool is a slightly… Read More Geek Reading June 22, 2016 #1133
Starting our day, The Android Blog talks abou ta new feature, Nearby, which allows you to discover things around you. It obviously requires Location services to be active, but it supposedly requires bluetooth as well, which might mean it will be hooking into beacons at some point. Tim Romero’s post about turning down investment money… Read More Geek Reading June 13, 2016 #1126
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
Leading our day, we have a wonderful acquisition. Medium acquired Superfeedr. This is very cool because Superfeedr was really started as a geeky tool for blogs but became a larger player. I am hoping that Medium allows it to flourish. Proper Fixation has an excellent post about avoiding “easy” things. Basically, if you want your… Read More Geek Reading June 6, 2016 #1121
Starting our day we have Scobleizer writing again! Today we get an excellent post on spatial computing and what Apple and Tim Cook need to do. Ted Neward writes about the value of failure. In particular, he talks about what you can learn from failing over the years. Janelle Quibuyen gives us a great post… Read More Geek Reading June 1, 2016 #1118
Google leads the day with the announcement of node pools for Google Container Engine. On the Jenkins blog, they show Blue Ocean, a new user experience that will be available soon. Ayende @ Rahien talks about server side replication in his series about RavenDB v4.0. There are also, several good development articles, so make sure… Read More Geek Reading May 30, 2016 #1116
We start our day with a report on re/code about Microsoft giving up on consumer smartphones. Part of this is the impending layoffs of about 2000 jobs. Stratechery talks about the curse of culture and how it affects your business. Culture is a frequent topic here because it affects everything at your job, how coworkers… Read More Geek Reading May 26, 2016 #1114
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