Radical UX starts our day with a look at nine nasty UX truths. These are some excellent pieces of advice, with my favorite being “color is meaningless”. Color can be used to differentiate ideas in a UI, but overall it does seem like nobody cares otherwise. At Ayende @ Rahien, we continue the database internals… Read More Geek Reading July 12, 2016 #1146
Leading our day is a post from Kent Beck about mastering programming. It is more of an outline than a full post, but it still has a ton of excellent information. At Ayende @ Rahien we have a great series of posts regarding the “guts n’ glory” of database internals. Today’s installment talks about the… Read More Geek Reading June 10, 2016 #1125
Google Research leads our day with the announcement of SyntaxNet. This is a great release and it will be interesting to see how things evolve. On KD Nuggets they talk about TPOT, a Python tool for automating data science. Machine Learning Mastery talks about understanding your machine learning data with descriptive statistics. This is another… Read More Geek Reading May 16, 2016 #1106
Twitter starts our day with a post about Manhattan software deployments. Machine Learning Mastery has yet another introductory post, this one about Python deep learning with Keras. Small Dropbear shows us what some of the Linux memory statistics really mean. This is a great explanation of some of these statistics. As always, enjoy today’s items,… Read More Geek Reading May 11, 2016 #1103
Starting our day, the Google Big Data blog talks about new integration of BigQuery with Google Drive. Google Cloud Platform gives us some goodies when they talk about Kubernetes and container portability. WordPress releases 4.5.2, a minor but important security release. I know that doesn’t sound like big news, but when security fixes are made… Read More Geek Reading May 10, 2016 #1102
There are a lot of good development articles to start the week. First, On DZone Java we get a “getting started” guide for Kotlin. I have started to see a lot more interest in Kotlin this year, so it seems to be a language to watch. On Java Code Geeks we have a beginner’s guide… Read More Geek Reading April 25, 2016 #1091
Today we are going to focus on the career. At The Codist, we are told a story about regret in a career. This is an interesting perspective of someone that has been a programmer for a very long time, had opportunities to really get into technical leadership, but never took a full leap into it.… Read More Geek Reading April 7, 2016 #1079
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
Today we start with a huge list of data mining, data science and machine learning blogs from KD Nuggets. There are a lot of good sources, some of which I already share, so if you are interested in those topics definitely take a look. On FastML, we get an excellent post on Bayesian Machine Learning.… Read More Geek Reading March 30, 2016 #1073
Google Cloud Platform leads our day with a few announcements. First, they announced the availability of Cloud Machine Learning. I have not looked deeply into the details, but this is a very interesting idea and is yet another shot at Amazon. They also released Stackdriver, unified monitoring and logging for Google Cloud Platform and AWS.… Read More Geek Reading March 24, 2016 #1070
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