Today we focus on some business. First, Mike McCue talks about the most powerful lesson he ever learned in business. The “first principles” concept is not something new, but it forces you to think about facts. William R Fry gives us an excellent guide to the Philly tech scene. This is important because I live… Read More Geek Reading February 24, 2016 #1049
Bryan Edds starts our day with his post about the stress and depression that is rampant in the software industry. This is a topic that is important to me because I have seen the effects in both myself and others over my 20+ year career. If you are one of those people having difficulties, you… Read More Geek Reading February 23, 2016 #1048
It was a slow news weekend, but there are plenty of good development posts. First, On DZone we get the logic behind various types of transactions. Unless you are building a very simple administrative application, like a CRUD app, then you are probably dealing with difference types of transactions. Confluent announced the availability of Kafka… Read More Geek Reading February 22, 2016 #1047
There were plenty of interesting articles yesterday. First, The Next Web reports on a car that has no gears and runs on hydrogen. Granted, the car has a top speed of 60 mph, but it is an interesting development regardless. Seth Godin gives us an excellent “manifesto” for small teams. Even if you have a… Read More Geek Reading February 19, 2016 #1046
It was a fairly slow news day yesterday, so today highlight some different articles. First, KD Nuggets gives us two good lists to review. The first is a set of 9 must-have datasets for recommender systems. The other is a list of 21 must-know data science interview questions. Amazon RDS gets an update with shared… Read More Geek Reading February 12, 2016 #1041
Leading our day is an excellent post on Stratechery about the various social platforms and digital advertising. It is definitely an interesting read if you have a startup that depends on advertising for revenue. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about the growth mindset. One thing that really made sense to me is the idea… Read More Geek Reading February 11, 2016 #1040
The top news for the day comes from TechCrunch as they report on the Yahoo layoffs and financial report. This is a damn shame to watch as one of the original internet powers goes through its slow and painful demise. Google Online Security talks about protecting us from false downloads. Check Point gives us some… Read More Geek Reading February 4, 2016 #1035
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
There are a lot of good articles today, so set aside some time for reading. Leading the day we have TechCrunch reporting on the Docker acquisition of Unikernel Systems. It will be interesting to see how Docker uses the technology. Kaggle introduced Kaggle Datasets, so you can review and use some of the datasets from… Read More Geek Reading January 25, 2016
Google leads the day with the announcement from their cultural institute about 1000 museums at your fingertips. The coolest part is that you can zoom into the images so far that you can see the brushstrokes. ThreatPost reports on a serious Linux kernel vulnerability and its patch. High Scalability has an interesting post on scaling… Read More Geek Reading January 22, 2016
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