Krebs on Security starts our week with an update on the Wendy’s data breach. They are up to over 1000 stores affected. Brian de Heus shows us how to hide a payload in a PNG using Python. At Machine Learning Mastery, they give us some ideas on how to deal with missing values in machine… Read More Geek Reading July 11, 2016 #1145
Amazon AWS starts our day with the availability of their Elastic Network Adapter. This is more infrastructure from Amazon in their quest to have you own no IT hardware. On Ayende @ Rahien, we have another database internals post, this one about managing records. This post really starts to show how complex database systems are… Read More Geek Reading June 29, 2016 #1138
Google Cloud Platform leads our day with a few announcements. First, they announced the availability of Cloud Machine Learning. I have not looked deeply into the details, but this is a very interesting idea and is yet another shot at Amazon. They also released Stackdriver, unified monitoring and logging for Google Cloud Platform and AWS.… Read More Geek Reading March 24, 2016 #1070
There was not a lot of new yesterday, but there is always some interesting reading. On Conversation Agent, we get a very good post on the difference between power and status. Interestingly, they both can wield influence, which is what most people typically want. At DaedTech, they talk about escaping the legacy skill quicksand. As… Read More Geek Reading February 25, 2016 #1050
Leading off today is an interesting story from Cardiff University about a potential “highly effective” treatment for asthma. This is a big deal because both my daughter and myself struggle with it, so you get to read some interesting science. Another link blog milestone today, the Morning Dew posted it’s 2000th Dew Drop! It is… Read More Geek Reading April 27, 2015
Last year, I wrote a post entitled 9 Programming Languages To Watch In 2011. Now that 2011 is basically over, let’s see what happened to these languages over the course of the year. As a reminder, these languages were selected because I expected to see larger than average movement, either up or down. So, there… Read More What Happened To The 9 Programming Languages To Watch in 2011
There has been some interesting reading recently which may not seem to be related but definitely has some commonalities. The common threads in these posts may not seem obvious at first, but after some discussion I think you will see what I am talking about. First, we have seen the whirlwind marketing tour that is… Read More Blazing A Trail Or Sitting In Comfort
I have written several posts regarding job trends in programming languages. However, I have not really written any posts that looked towards the future of programming languages. With job trends, I have been focusing on more heavily adopted languages. In this case, I wanted to look at some other languages that are gaining popularity but… Read More 9 Programming Languages To Watch In 2011
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