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, we have a post from Johanna Rothman about telling your problems to the duck. If you have not heard about this before, it is an interesting “problem solving” technique where you talk to a rubber duck. Hearing yourself talk about a problem can help you understand it better and potentially come up… Read More Geek Reading June 7, 2016 #1122
It was a fairly light day yesterday, so there is not a ton of reading for today. First, on Machine Learning Theory they talk about how AlphaGo is not the solution to AI. People involved in the industry have really started to bang this drum considering people think AlphaGo is a much larger step than… Read More Geek Reading March 15, 2016 #1063
Today we start with some job-focused posts. Johanna Rothman gives us a good post on requirements gathering and agile processes. If your organization really requires a lot of requirements analysis, maybe agile is not for your organization. On DaedTech, we get an interesting post about software metaphors. Admittedly, our industry overuses metaphors, but this might… Read More Geek Reading March 1, 2016 #1053
Starting off our week, we get more information on the IRS data breach from Krebs on Security. About 390K more people have had their data exposed, bringing the total to near 700K. VentureBeat reports on Microsoft killing Project Astoria, their tool for porting Android apps to Windows 10. This is definitely disappointing, but we will… Read More Geek Reading February 29, 2016 #1052
Today we start with a surprise announcement that Parse is shutting down at the end of this year. This sounds fairly odd given the popularity of the product and the potential increase in developer attention that Facebook gets. I am sure many developers are hoping that the product is just being integrated into some Facebook… Read More Geek Reading January 29, 2016
I had been planning to write this post for months, but I never got around to filling in the details. However, Louis Gray wrote about the difficulty of learning to program for all of the different platforms. I figured that it was the perfect setup to this post. Louis explains the problem nicely: While in… Read More How Do You Learn To Program On All These Platforms?
I was not planning on writing anything like this post, but Seth Godin had a great post on learning from a lousy teacher. If you have a teacher (of any sort) that you cannot please, that you cannot learn from, that is unwilling to take you where you need to go because he is defending… Read More 10 Ideas To Make Your Lousy Job Better
As a software engineer moves throughout their career, they take on more responsibilities. Some of these responsibilities are mentoring junior developers and assisting others that may be having problems. Mentoring is thrown around in many conversations when dealing with senior level professionals. It is assumed that people know what to do when it is mentioned.… Read More Software Engineering Task: Mentoring and Assisting Others
There have been a lot of posts recently where people are trying to help others “be awesome” or “kick ass”. There are whole industries supporting this idea as well. Many of the personal productivity systems try to help you be awesome every day. The problem is that it does not work. Awesomeness is not something… Read More You Need a Foundation Before You Can Be Awesome
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