Leading our day, High Scalability has a post on which cloud service to use based on your requirements, like throughput or latency. It is an interesting perspective on the services, especially because most posts focus on cost. Wired reports on researchers who found a zero-day exploit based on the hacking team’s leak. For people looking… Read More Geek Reading January 19, 2016
It was a fairly slow news day, but there is still plenty of good reading. On DZone Agile, we can read about the “Recruiter Manifesto”. At Code As Craft, they talk about leveling up your organization with system reviews. If you are not reviewing what you are doing, how are you learning how to improve?… Read More Geek Reading December 23, 2015
Leading off today is another security issue, iDigitalTimes reports on malware found pre-installed on Xiaomi, Huawei and Lenovo phones. In the development section, we have several good articles. First, at the Developsense Blog we have a series of posts regarding “Oracles” in testing, with today’s installment being part 4. NCZOnline talks about the size of… Read More Geek Reading September 9, 2015
There are a lot of interesting articles today, but not one particular area of focus. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about why simple rules produce better decisions. Google Webmaster Central continues their #NoHacked series, giving us information on how to fix the injected gibberish URL hack. Google Cloud Platform announces the ability to backup… Read More Geek Reading August 25, 2015
Leading off our stories today is an interview with Microsoft CEO Nadella. It may not be breaking news, but it is an interesting view into the future of Microsoft. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about founders getting “knocked down”. The basic idea is how do you handle it and what do you do next, which… Read More Geek Reading July 16, 2015
There is a varied selection of articles today, but I am going to focus on the job and startups. On O’Reilly Radar, there is a very good article about flattening organizations. More importantly, they address the fact that there is always an implicit hierarchy and you need to reconcile that with your organization structure. Mark Suster at… Read More Geek Reading July 9, 2015
The big news of the day is not tech related, but on Friday the Supreme Court ruled that gay couples have a right to marry. WordPress celebrates its 10th year of service. Obviously, this is important because it powers so many websites and blogs. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions… Read More Geek Reading June 29, 2015
After a slight delay we finally get to the third part of the programming language job trends. Today we review Erlang, Groovy, Scala, Lisp, and Clojure. If you do not see some of the more popular languages, take a look at Part 1 and Part 2. Lisp is included almost as a baseline, because it has had sustained usage for… Read More Programming Language Job Trends Part 3 – August 2014
Today we have the third part of the programming language job trends series. In this, we review Erlang, Groovy, Scala, Lisp, and Clojure. To recap, in part 1 we looked at Java, C++, C#, Objective C, and Visual Basic and in part 2 we had PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and PERL. You may be wondering why your favorite language is not included. In some cases, like Go… Read More Programming Language Job Trends Part 3 – February 2014
Like many software developers, I have toyed with many languages over the years. Some languages have grown in popularity and others have waned. Today, I would like to give thanks to those esoteric, arcane, rare and industry changing languages in a nice A-Z listing. Some are old, some are new, some are popular, some are… Read More Giving Thanks To Arcane Programming Languages
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