It is that time of year again as TechCrunch reports on Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report. It is always an excellent analysis of the trends and should be required reading for everyone in our industry. TechCrunch also has the first report of the Salesforce purchase of Demandware. I don’t talk about acquisitions too often,… Read More Geek Reading June 3, 2016 #1120
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
Late last week, there were two comics that were just perfect. First, XKCD gives their explanation of Git. If you are just starting with Git, it will sound all too familiar. The second comic is Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller, where it shows “Youth Revival Therapy”. I included this mainly because I know a bunch… Read More Geek Reading November 2, 2015
Not surprisingly, another security issue leads today’s stories. TechCrunch brings us a story about the “FREAK” flaw, which obviously was a hot topic of the day. Also on TechCrunch, Alibaba made some news as well, announcing their decision to bring their cloud services to the US. This means yet another competitor in this already crowded… Read More Geek Reading March 5, 2015
We start the week with some awesomeness from XKCD’s What If series, this one about snow removal. I figured that we have all had dreams of faster ways to get rid of the snow. Sam Altman gives us some excellent startup advice. Lastly, Think Faster tells us why rockstar developers don’t ask for help, or… Read More Geek Reading February 23, 2015
The first highlight from yesterday came from XKCD with the comic Tornado. As usual with XKCD, make sure you read the image alt text as well. We also have some really interesting performance articles today. First, High Scalability talks about what PAPER did to handle the traffic for their Kim Kardashian shoot. The High Scalability… Read More Geek Reading February 17, 2015
