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’.