A new day means a new security issue. Foxglove Security reports on a windows privilege escalation. On DZone Agile, there is a commentary on how happy people still quit their jobs. This is a response to a post recently about employees having their “shields down”. Jeremiah Owyang talks about the collaborative economy and how it… Read More Geek Reading January 20, 2016
Leading the day is a post on ReadThink by the HubSpot CEO. It is an excellent look at how to manage things when dealing with the switch between pure startup and scaling a business. Tom Blomfield gives us a slightly humorous look at when to join a startup. Its’ target may be humor but there… Read More Geek Reading January 15, 2016
TechCrunch leads the day reporting on a new type of metallic glue that can replace solder, MesoGlue. This is really interesting because it has the potential to change the electronic hobbyist industry and potentially more. High Scalability gives us a very nice introduction to scaling to 11M+ users on Amazon AWS. Not surprisingly, there is… Read More Geek Reading January 12, 2016
Some interesting news to start our day. Twitter finally seems to be moving to longer messages, possibly as big as 10k. Oracle acquired AddThis for $200M. This is interesting because it really feels outside of what Oracle has purchased in the past. Flowing Data has an excellent visualization on the cause of death over various… Read More Geek Reading January 6, 2016
Dan Luu leads the day with an interesting look at the effect of markets on discrimination. Not surprisingly, this post stems from the ideas of discrimination and diversity in the technical industry, but it is not entirely focused on that. Johanna Rothman gives us an excellent post on architects as servant leaders. Much of the… Read More Geek Reading January 5, 2016
There are four stories that top our news for today. First, VentureBeat reports on Toshiba’s plans to fire 7000 employees. That is a big number and hopefully those people can find work quickly. VentureBeat also gives us an excellent post from Steve Blank on how 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy. Crazy isn’t… Read More Geek Reading December 22, 2015
Google leads the day with their new accelerator for mobile startups, as announced on the Google Developers blog. It is not a huge thing, but it is good to see more of this kind of thing. Eric Leong has a great post on the types of software engineers. I have talked about it in the… Read More Geek Reading December 18, 2015
We start our day with VentureBeat reporting on a new CDN available from Google. It is not huge news, but it is an interesting development for people building out scalable sites. Alvaro Videla has an excellent post on what people talk about when they are talking about distributed systems. Distributed systems are generally, highly complex… Read More Geek Reading December 11, 2015
Wired leads the day with their story on who they think the creator of Bitcoin is. We will see if this path is true. The rest of our news is dominated by the CMS world. WordPress released v4.4, codenamed “Clifford”. WordPress also released an app for Windows. A group of Microsoft developers have saved Windows… Read More Geek Reading December 10, 2015
Amazon leads the day with their move to bundle Showtime and Starz with Amazon Prime. Prime is slowly becoming a must-have option. Mozilla releases Focus for Firefox, their content blocking option for the open web. Job Tips For Geeks shows us some trends in the recruiting space based on various languages. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading December 9, 2015
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