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
Google Research leads the day with their post about Project Bloks. This is an interesting project but I am not sure how much impact this has on how people eventually learn programming. I am not a researcher in this area, so I am curious to see what the results are like. On the Android Developer… Read More Geek Reading June 28, 2016 #1137
It was a slow news day, but we still have plenty of good articles. First Johanna Rothman has started a series on Product Owners and learning. I highly recommend these posts if you have any interest in how product features are defined. Today we have part 1 and part 2. On the Android Developers Blog… Read More Geek Reading June 24, 2016 #1135
Some big news leads the day. First, LinkedIn announced they are being acquired by Microsoft. According to reports, the purchase price is over $26 Billion in all cash. I have no idea why Microsoft wants this deal, so we will have to wait and see what happens. Google announced Tango, with the first enable phone,… Read More Geek Reading June 14, 2016 #1127
Google leads the day with the announcement of node pools for Google Container Engine. On the Jenkins blog, they show Blue Ocean, a new user experience that will be available soon. Ayende @ Rahien talks about server side replication in his series about RavenDB v4.0. There are also, several good development articles, so make sure… Read More Geek Reading May 30, 2016 #1116
We start our day with a report on re/code about Microsoft giving up on consumer smartphones. Part of this is the impending layoffs of about 2000 jobs. Stratechery talks about the curse of culture and how it affects your business. Culture is a frequent topic here because it affects everything at your job, how coworkers… Read More Geek Reading May 26, 2016 #1114
Well, it is Tuesday and that seems to be security day. First, Reuters reports on SWIFT saying a second bank is hit by a malware attack. The Cisco Talos blog talks about multiple vulnerabilities in the 7-Zip application. 18F gives us some interesting information on how they deal with information security and third party applications.… Read More Geek Reading May 17, 2016 #1107
Just a short introduction today as I am traveling. Lots of good information today, so please take a look at as much as possible. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Startups, Career and Process Scrum Masters – First, Do No Harm | DZone Agile The Software Engineer’s… Read More Geek Reading May 13, 2016 #1105
Leading our day is an excellent post on First Round Review. They talk about practical frameworks for beating burnout. This topic gets talked about a lot, but burnout is very real for a lot of people. Google Cloud Platform announced the beta availability of Ruby on Google App Engine. Honestly, this feels like a late… Read More Geek Reading May 6, 2016 #1100
Today we are going to focus on the career. At The Codist, we are told a story about regret in a career. This is an interesting perspective of someone that has been a programmer for a very long time, had opportunities to really get into technical leadership, but never took a full leap into it.… Read More Geek Reading April 7, 2016 #1079
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