We focus on personal productivity to start our day. On the Todoist blog, my favorite productivity tool, they have the “ultimate” guide to personal productivity methods. The guide lists the most popular methods around and provides some good highlights for each. As we head into the new year, this is a good post to review… Read More Geek Reading December 2, 2015
Leading today we have a post on Psy-Q’s Braindump about how we need to save Mozilla in order to defend the free web. I am not sure if I agree with the premise that Chrome and its engine are taking over the web, especially given the size of Facebook and its ecosystem, but it is… Read More Geek Reading December 1, 2015
Starting off our week we have The Modern Team talking about flat corporate structures and how they may not work in practice. I think people are not really ready for true flat structures just given our experience, and flat requires a huge change in our basic thinking. TechCrunch has an excellent post about the platform… Read More Geek Reading November 30, 2015
Macworld starts our day with a bit of nostalgia, an ode to Kai’s Power Goo. I know this isn’t news but it shows you how much was possible 20 years ago and user interfaces still tend to suck now. First Round Review gives us an excellent post on scaling yourself as a technology leader. Anyone… Read More Geek Reading November 20, 2015
VentureBeat leads the day with reporting on Pandora purchasing some of the assets of Rdio. This is interesting because it could mean that on-demand streaming is coming to Pandora, or at least we can hope. Docker made a bunch of announcements at DockerCon EU, and today we have a post on Integrated Content Trust and… Read More Geek Reading November 18, 2015
Google leads the day again, this time with the announcement of offline maps and searching. Adam Bourg gives us an interesting look at scrum as a poor process and not truly agile. There are some good ideas and others that you may not agree with. Baremetrics has an excellent post on the potential perils of… Read More Geek Reading November 11, 2015
TechCrunch leads our Monday morning with a good post on warning signs of a security breach. Also on TechCrunch, we get some details on some Linux ransomware attacking webmasters. On Java Code Geeks we have an interesting post on when to grow your technical stack. The big question is when you add new technologies. As always,… Read More Geek Reading November 9, 2015
Late last week, there were two comics that were just perfect. First, XKCD gives their explanation of Git. If you are just starting with Git, it will sound all too familiar. The second comic is Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller, where it shows “Youth Revival Therapy”. I included this mainly because I know a bunch… Read More Geek Reading November 2, 2015
We start our day with an interesting look at software outsourcing from yegor256.com. Rackspace announces Carina, their container service powered by Docker Swarm. Another interesting post can be found on Java Code Geeks, where they talk about the process of choosing a data management solution. This one is interesting because it really does look like… Read More Geek Reading October 29, 2015
Seth Godin starts our day with another excellent post, this one talking about bravery. This is not the heroism type, but the bravery in our daily lives. Matthew Daniels talks about the new trend of journalist engineers, where the stories are almost all about data and visualization, and only accompanied by some text. On DZone… Read More Geek Reading October 28, 2015
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