Geek Reading - Cloud, SQL, NoSQL, HTML5

I have talked about human filters and my plan for digital curation. These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques.

• Real-Time Ad Impression Bids Using DynamoDB (Amazon Web Services Blog)
• The mother of all M&A rumors: AT&T, Verizon to jointly buy Vodafone (GigaOM)
• Is this the future of memory? A Hybrid Memory Cube spec makes its debut. (GigaOM)
• Dew Drop – April 2, 2013 (#1,518) (Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew)
• Rosetta Stone acquires Livemocha for $8.5m to move its language learning platform into the cloud (The Next Web)
• Double Shot #1098 (A Fresh Cup)
• Extending git (Atlassian Blogs)
• A Thorough Introduction To Backbone.Marionette (Part 2) (Smashing Magazine Feed)
• 60 Problem Solving Strategies (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• Why asm.js is a big deal for game developers (HTML5 Zone)
• Implementing DAL in Play 2.x (Scala), Slick, ScalaTest (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• “It’s Open Source, So the Source is, You Know, Open.” (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• How to Design a Good, Regular API (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• Scalding: Finding K Nearest Neighbors for Fun and Profit (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 2, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Usually When Developers Are Mean, It Is About Power (Agile Zone – Software Methodologies for Development Managers)
• Do Predictive Modelers Need to Know Math? (Data Mining and Predictive Analytics)
• Heroku Forces Customer Upgrade To Fix Critical PostgreSQL Security Hole (TechCrunch)
• DYNAMO (Lambda the Ultimate – Programming Languages Weblog)
• FitNesse your ScalaTest with custom Scala DSL (Java Code Geeks)
• LinkBench: A database benchmark for the social graph (Facebook Engineering's Facebook Notes)
• Khan Academy Checkbook Scaling to 6 Million Users a Month on GAE (High Scalability)
• Famo.us, The Framework For Fast And Beautiful HTML5 Apps, Will Be Free Thanks To “Huge Hardware Vendor Interest” (TechCrunch)
• Why We Need Lambda Expressions in Java – Part 2 (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)

I hope you enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on those sites.