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
Today we start with an excellent post from Rex Software about 3 women who radically changed the course of technology. It is a nice profile of a few of the women that formed the core of computer science that we have today. On the Android Developers Blog, they tell us how to develop for direct… Read More Geek Reading April 29, 2016 #1095
I am not sure how I forgot to post it yesterday, but our lead story comes from The Next Web. SpaceX finally lands its rocket on a drone ship! Geeks around the world were going nuts and the various videos of the landing were shared all over. Wordfence continues their analysis of the Panama Papers… Read More Geek Reading April 12, 2016 #1082
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
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
Leading our day, we have the announcement from the Google Cloud Platform about the general availability of custom machine types. This is very cool, and helps everyone using these platforms. I have always had a problem trying to choose the appropriate configuration for a new server. The Netflix Tech Blog started a series about how… Read More Geek Reading February 18, 2016 #1045
Krebs on Security leads the day again with the continuing saga about the skimmers in Mexico. This is really a fascinating story and shows the potential that the skimmer businesses have. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about continuous improvement through experiments. It is an interesting way to think about improvement given our productivity focused… Read More Geek Reading September 18, 2015
Today we have a good mix of articles. First, we have an interesting bit of social engineering from Graham Cluley and how to get access to an email account based on someone’s mobile number. Next, Pat Kua talks about the role of the tech lead and their circles of responsibility. Lastly, there are three cool… Read More Geek Reading June 22, 2015
Fairly slow news day, so today we have an odd selection of articles. Every job has its issues, but we tend to overlook some due to salary or benefits. DaedTech takes an interesting look at this in his post, “Career Advancement for the Low Price of Your Soul”. Martin Fowler talks about how microservices may… Read More Geek Reading June 4, 2015
From the development perspective, Twitter ending its partnership with DataSift does not seem like a big deal. However, this shows the fragility of any partnership with large social sites. If you are building a business based on social APIs, be very careful and have a backup plan. The security section has a few good articles… Read More Geek Reading April 13, 2015
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