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
Yesterday was buy a company day! First, Atlassian announced their acquisition of StatusPage. This is yet another step in the DevOps and monitoring direction for Atlassian. Amazon acquired Cloud9, which gives them a development environment in the cloud. Basically, Amazon does not want to give you a reason to not use their services. In the… Read More Geek Reading July 15, 2016 #1149
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
Starting our day, The Android Blog talks abou ta new feature, Nearby, which allows you to discover things around you. It obviously requires Location services to be active, but it supposedly requires bluetooth as well, which might mean it will be hooking into beacons at some point. Tim Romero’s post about turning down investment money… Read More Geek Reading June 13, 2016 #1126
Leading our day are the improvements in Mozilla’s Firefox. Take a look at the improvements that they talk about to see if you want to give it another try. On Feld Thoughts, we get an excellent post on rebudgeting for the second half of the year. The main point is not to reforecast, but to… Read More Geek Reading June 9, 2016 #1124
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
In an interesting twist, MySpace makes the news today. Motherboard reports on hackers claims about having 427 million MySpace passwords. There are some questions about the actual source of the data and when it was retrieved. Bill Jordan talks about the coming crisis in software development. His target is mostly on low quality applications built… Read More Geek Reading May 31, 2016 #1117
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
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
Benedict Evans leads our day with an excellent post about the end of a mobile wave. Basically, we are getting to a mobile saturation point, so growth likely needs to come from someplace other than devices. XKCD gives us some funny with their comic “Message in a Bottle”. As usual, the image hover text is… Read More Geek Reading May 4, 2016 #1098
