This is a special Sunday edition of Geek Reading for one simple reason. I am taking a break from posting Geek Reading for a while. Life and work are always very busy and I am hoping to get back to writing again. Maybe in the near future I will post an original article or opinion,… Read More Geek Reading July 17, 2016 #1150
Radical UX starts our day with a look at nine nasty UX truths. These are some excellent pieces of advice, with my favorite being “color is meaningless”. Color can be used to differentiate ideas in a UI, but overall it does seem like nobody cares otherwise. At Ayende @ Rahien, we continue the database internals… Read More Geek Reading July 12, 2016 #1146
If you only read this tech blog, then you might not have heard about the recent issues with Ethereum and the DAO. The Ethereum Blog posted about a DAO vulnerability. It ends up that the vulnerability was used to start draining ether, which led to a ton of posts about this. At Hacking, Distributed, they… Read More Geek Reading June 21, 2016 #1132
It has been a while, but some security news leads our day. First, The Next Web reports on 45M passwords being stolen from over 1100 VerticalScope forums. This has the potential to bleed into another password reuse hack like we have seen lately. Sentry has an excellent post about a security incident that they had… Read More Geek Reading June 17, 2016 #1130
Today we start with a post on AVC about concerns about specific employees. It is interesting to see how different people handle issues like this. On Flowing Data we get a really cool visualization of Kung Fu masters. The movements are converted into different particle and wave formations for very cool effects. Julia Evans talks… Read More Geek Reading May 20, 2016 #1110
There are some interesting articles to share today. First, Mozilla announces its new Test Pilot program, where you get to help build the future of Firefox. Google Cloud Platform announces the availability of StackDriver Trace for Google App Engine. Slack introduced “Sign in with Slack”, their new social identity offering. I am not entirely sure… Read More Geek Reading May 12, 2016 #1104
There are a lot of good development articles to start the week. First, On DZone Java we get a “getting started” guide for Kotlin. I have started to see a lot more interest in Kotlin this year, so it seems to be a language to watch. On Java Code Geeks we have a beginner’s guide… Read More Geek Reading April 25, 2016 #1091
Reporting from The Next Web leads our day. The Tesla Model X is having some software problems and locking some owners out of their cars. This is probably one of the biggest concerns about software-pervasive cars, bugs. A “highlight” of our childhood is getting modern 🙂 As reported by TechCrunch, Highlights magazine reinvents itself as… Read More Geek Reading April 22, 2016 #1090
Amazon dumped a pile of updates on us today, so we have a few highlights. First, AWS Elastic Beanstalk now has managed platform updates. Amazon Cognito adds user pools to their offering. AWS Device Farm updates so that you now get remote access to devices for interactive testing. There are a bunch of other updates… Read More Geek Reading April 21, 2016 #1089
Today we have a mixed bag of articles. On DZone Agile, we get a good post on how to describe accomplishments on a resume. If you have ever been on the hiring side of an interview, you know that geeks have a terribly difficult time with this. At Machine Learning Mastery, we have an excellent… Read More Geek Reading April 11, 2016 #1081
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