Another acquisition leads our day. RedHat is acquiring 3scale, an API Management company. I have worked with 3scale in the past and they were a pleasure to work with, so this is a great exit for them. Google Cloud Platform talks about a better way to bootstrap MongoDB on their platform. This is cool because… Read More Geek Reading June 23, 2016 #1134
Leading our day is a post from Kent Beck about mastering programming. It is more of an outline than a full post, but it still has a ton of excellent information. At Ayende @ Rahien we have a great series of posts regarding the “guts n’ glory” of database internals. Today’s installment talks about the… Read More Geek Reading June 10, 2016 #1125
Amazon leads our day with the announcement of their Amazon Payments partner program, reported by TechCrunch. On Signal v. Noise, we get an interesting post about being a boring programmer. This is a different perspective on the “rock-star” requirements we continuously see and there is definitely a case for finding “solid” talent. Michael Schmatz gives… Read More Geek Reading April 5, 2016 #1077
Today is April Fools Day in the US, and it is easily the worst news day of the year. Hopefully, I don’t share something that is actually a prank. With that being said, there is one epic prank, the GMail Mic Drop. In the normal reading, we have The Next Web reporting on Toshiba’s recall of… Read More Geek Reading April 1, 2016 #1075
Another slow news day yesterday, so we have a continued focus on development. First, on NOUPE they talk about the Google Resizer tool which shows you how your site responds to different sized devices. It is not a perfect tool, so depending on how you developed for mobile, you might not be getting the right… Read More Geek Reading March 4, 2016 #1056
We have a much shorter list of articles today as many people start taking time off for the holiday season. Over the next week, my posts may be inconsistent as well. The holidays always make for a lighter batch of articles, and the holidays also mean less time for me at the computer. On your… Read More Geek Reading December 24, 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
Leading our day is a post on Conversation Agent, where Valeria Maltoni talks about what happens when technology fails to fade into the background. The post focuses on many healthcare systems, which can be amazingly bad, but every application needs to look at their user experience and design. Simplicity is hard, but it makes user… Read More Geek Reading November 17, 2015
Microsoft starts our week with their open source release of the Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit for big data. They really need to work on naming things, Google has TensorFlow and Microsoft has DMLT, it just does not sound exciting. On Made of Bugs, they talk about what MongoDB got right. This is an interesting post because… Read More Geek Reading November 16, 2015
Oh look, more security articles today! First, HotHardware reports on a rootkit exploit in Intel processors that has existed since 1997. It is research based, so it does not sound like it has been used in the wild. On Bits Please they talk about a TrustZone exploit for Qualcomm. This has already been fixed, so… Read More Geek Reading August 11, 2015
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