Friday Five #7

1. Best Open Technology Content 2014 from DeveloperWorks – includes popular “Mastering MEAN” (Mongo-Express-Angular-Node) series
2. Steve Jobs was a low-tech parent
3. Security Reading List
4. Visualizing GC Algorithms
5. Deep Learning MIT Book in Progress

Friday Five #6

 

1. A timeless collection of Tim Berners-Lee’s Architectural Viewpoints
2. Anatomy of a Perfect Technical Interview from a former Amazon VP
3. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL
4. Reverse Engineering for Beginners – Free eBook
5. Ontology of Filter Bubbles – “I Liked everything on Facebook for 2 days…”

 

Friday Five #5

1. “Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley”
2. Ops School – Excellent Curriculum for a Great Career in Ops
3. Collection of Technology Business Models
4. “There is something wrong with Java …The biggest problem I’ve encountered over the years looking at Java code is that it always seems to be the product of someone who fancies themselves as an architect. They must, because so often I find I’m reading code that looks more like a plan for something that solves a problem, rather than something that actually solves a problem.”
5. #tweetOfTheWeek “I think the problem with programming languages is that they tend to become popular before anyone has any experience using them.”

 

Friday Five #4

1. #revisit Classic Development Process Mistakes (from CodingHorror Summary)
2. The display that could get rid of Reading Glasses

3. This Dad made spacecraft for the kids (including launch noise!)
4. Second Edition of (Free!) Eloquent Javascript is out
5. Diary of an Atom Bomb Technician

 

 

 

Friday Five #3

1. How Recursion got into Programming – Comedy of Errors
2. Myth of “Schema-less” – Interesting discussion sums it up as “schema-less doesn’t exist, it’s either in your database, or spread throughout the code”
3. How the other half works : An adventure in the low Status of Software Engineers
4. “A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise is like a monkey who can only climb down a tree” – Selected quotes from George Polya
5. Know & Treat your biases 

Friday Five #2

1. Soon, about 5% of Global energy demand will be from ‘networked devices’ waiting to be connected (e.g., cell phone lying idle)!
2. Microsoft is The Very Antithesis of Strategy.
3. #Java8 – ORM is dead, long live Functional-Relational Transformation – more intuitive, less annotations.
4. Everyday Algorithms: Elevator Allocation
   
5. World Cup Moments as 8-bit art

Friday Five #1

1. Software Design Elegance – in 500 lines or less

 

“Every architect studies family homes, apartments, schools, and other common types of buildings during her training. Equally, every programmer ought to know how a compiler turns text into instructions, how a spreadsheet updates cells, and how a browser decides what to put where when it renders a page. This book’s goal is to give readers that broad-ranging overview, and while doing so, to help them understand how software designers think.”

 

2. Visualizing Algorithms with Van Gogh

 

 

3. Java 8 now allows ‘default’ method implementation in Interface. But it somehow managed to prevent multiple inheritance adding compile-time checks.
4. Tweaking SQLLite to load 864,913 records in 16 seconds!!

 

5. Brogrammers are changing programming culture.

 

State of Technology #106

Elsewhere ·        100 ideas for Computing ·       Unwritten Rules of Management ·        Summer Reading Issue from A List Apart ·        Product Strategy means saying No ·        Anil Dash’s 10 Rules of Internet
Architecture The architecture of Twitter for 150M Active Users
Code Continuous deployment at Quora
Design Dan Norman’s ‘Design of Everyday Things’ course coming to Udacity this fall
Essay Unofficial Guide to Rich Hickey’s Brain
Mobile Why Mobile Apps are so slow
SaaS NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques
Service Early Amazon: Splitting the Website
Social Six Types of Influencer Maps
Tool Microsoft has 1 million servers!
Hack Essays and Papers Every Programmers should Read
Etc · Nicola Tesla pitching to Silicon Valley VCs       ·   Bret Victor on Engelbart     Parting Thought ‘The past 30 years have been completely mundane. It’s all been scaling (of old technology) and Angry Birds’  – Alan Kay

State of Technology #104

Elsewhere         McKinsey’s Report on Disruptive Technologies (Download)         Amazon Cloud now maps with 11M hostnames, 156K servers         Google Street View soon to cover Galapagos Islands         Aiming Higher than cloud: Net access via Baloons         Who made that? Innovations Issue at NYT Magazine
Architecture What’s new in JMS 2.0? Part 1: Ease of Use; Part 2: New Messaging Features
Code Netflix Open Sources Zuul Edge Service
Design 2500 miles, 10 cities; 50 Design Problems in 50 Days
Essay Silicon Valley and ‘Changing the World’ When financiers say that they’re doing God’s work by providing cheap credit, and oilmen claim to be patriots who are making the country energy-independent, no one takes them too seriously—it’s a given that their motivation is profit. But when technology entrepreneurs describe their lofty goals there’s no smirk or wink. “Many see their social responsibility fulfilled by their businesses, not by social or political action,” one young entrepreneur said of his colleagues. “It’s remarkably convenient that they can achieve all their goals just by doing their start-up.”
Mobile Data from WWDC – Apple has sent over 7.4 Trillion push notifications and others.
SaaS Antifragile System Design Principles
Service Future of Mobile Banking (Slides; Talk)
Social Teens share a LOT on social media sites. 1 in 5 teens share mobile phone number online. Yet, only about 9% of them are concerned about privacy issues.
Tool Linux Performance Analysis & Tools
Hack Dashlane: An advanced Password Manager
Etc         Lego Faces are getting angrier         Every Business Cliché in a Single Memo Parting Thought “Reality is the second screen. Mobile is the first.” – Bob Bowman @MLB

State of Technology #102

elsewhere         11 Fascinating Factsfrom Meeker’s latestInternet Trends         12 Obsolete TechnologiesStill in Large Use         30 Bits of Wisdomfrom 2013 Commencement Speeches         From Founder of TED:How to Give a Killer Presentation          75K results:SQL Injection searchwithin PHP Codebase in GitHub
Architecture Anatomy of a Perfect Web Page
Code Plain English Explanation of Big-Oand aCheat Sheet
Design Design Principles for News Apps & Graphics
Essay Letter to a Young Programmer Considering a Startup
Mobile Are you designing your Mobile app following‘One Thumb, One Eyeball’ Principle?
SaaS SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices
Service 5 HTML5 Features that could Speed Things Up
Social Most Popular Links Shared by Developers
Tool 45 ways to Communicate Two Quantities
Hack Anatomy of a Hack: How Crackers Ransack Complex Passwords
Etc          GAG:Google Annotation Galleryfor Java          ‘It’s pronounced jif.’ – inventor of GIF.  ‘No, it’s not.’ – inventor of the letter G. Parting Thought Zach is a 17 year old diagnosed with terminal cancer. He wants all to know‘you don’t have to find out how you’re dying to start living’.