Some interesting acquisition news starts our week, with both items reported by VentureBeat. First, Microsoft acquires and shutters messaging startup Wand Labs. Next, Samsung buys Joyent, a cloud infrastructure company. Joyent will continue to operate as a separate company, so no major concerns there. On Digital Trends, they talk about a man who built a… Read More Geek Reading June 20, 2016 #1131
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
Another security issue leads our day. Arstechnica reports on a bunch of stolen certificates that allow hackers to bypass code-signing. It is an interesting story and makes you wonder about the real benefits of code-signing. On Amazon Big Data we get a great post about analyzing time series data in real-time with AWS Lambda, Amazon… Read More Geek Reading March 18, 2016 #1066
We have a mix of stories today. In development, we have Mark Reinhold talking about the state of the module system, aka Project Jigsaw which will be in Java 9. Next, Daniel Lemire gives us an interesting take on who is typically responsible for progress, hackers or academics. On Mindful Chaos, they talk about how… Read More Geek Reading September 14, 2015
Lots of good development articles today. First, Living social shows us how to work with responsive tables in pure CSS. James Long complains about catching exceptions and promises in JavaScript. Frank McSherry talks about differential dataflow in Rust. An excellent quote (paraphrased) from the opening keynote of the conference I am attending, “Software is not… Read More Geek Reading April 8, 2015
Leading us off is a joint venture between two behemoths. Google and Microsoft are working together regarding Angular2 and TypeScript. Seth Godin gives us something interesting to think about in his post regarding the asymmetry of decay. Northwestern University brings us another interesting topic, where they found that creative genius is driven by distraction. As… Read More Geek Reading March 6, 2015
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