It has been a while, but some security news leads our day. First, The Next Web reports on 45M passwords being stolen from over 1100 VerticalScope forums. This has the potential to bleed into another password reuse hack like we have seen lately. Sentry has an excellent post about a security incident that they had… Read More Geek Reading June 17, 2016 #1130
Some big news leads the day. First, LinkedIn announced they are being acquired by Microsoft. According to reports, the purchase price is over $26 Billion in all cash. I have no idea why Microsoft wants this deal, so we will have to wait and see what happens. Google announced Tango, with the first enable phone,… Read More Geek Reading June 14, 2016 #1127
It is that time of year again as TechCrunch reports on Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report. It is always an excellent analysis of the trends and should be required reading for everyone in our industry. TechCrunch also has the first report of the Salesforce purchase of Demandware. I don’t talk about acquisitions too often,… Read More Geek Reading June 3, 2016 #1120
Leading our day is a post from Reaction Wheel. They talk about how disruption is not a strategy, especially with how disruption is typically being described. Liz Keogh has a great post on learning and information. KD Nuggets gives us an article about Recurrent Networks in TensorFlow. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate… Read More Geek Reading June 2, 2016 #1119
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
Today we have some excellent articles, so make sure you read more than what I highlight. First, Twitter open sourced Heron, its’ distributed stream computation system. I am not sure how many companies have a need for this kind of thing, but it is good to see it available. On the Intent HQ Engineering blog,… Read More Geek Reading May 27, 2016 #1115
There was no major news from yesterday, so our focus will just be on good content. Ilya Sher gives us an excellent article on threads, race conditions and deadlock. This is a good read for anyone that needs to write code using threads or locks. On FastML, they talk about adversarial validation, something that is… Read More Geek Reading May 25, 2016 #1113
Today we start with a post on AVC about concerns about specific employees. It is interesting to see how different people handle issues like this. On Flowing Data we get a really cool visualization of Kung Fu masters. The movements are converted into different particle and wave formations for very cool effects. Julia Evans talks… Read More Geek Reading May 20, 2016 #1110
Google leads our day with their release of Spaces. Many news sites are calling it a messaging platform, but it feels more like a collaboration platform almost like a wiki. Overall, it seems like an odd thing for Google to be working on unless they are really focused on the business use cases. Michael Bromley… Read More Geek Reading May 18, 2016 #1108
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