Geek Reading June 4, 2013

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.

• Getting Visual: Your Secret Weapon For Storytelling & Persuasion (The Future Buzz)
• My Clojure Workflow, Reloaded (Hacker News)
• Replacing Clever Code with Unremarkable Code in Go (Hacker News)
• Unit Test like a Secret Agent with Sinon.js (Web Dev .NET)
• Bliki: EmbeddedDocument (Martin Fowler)
• How we use ZFS to back up 5TB of MySQL data every day (Royal Pingdom)
• IMB to acquire Softlayer for a rumored $2-2.5 billion (Hacker News)
• Cloud SQL API: YOU get a database! And YOU get a database! And YOU get a database! (Cloud Platform Blog)
• You Should Write Ugly Code (Hacker News)
• How many lights can you turn on? (The Endeavour)
• Python Big Picture — What's the "roadmap"? (S.Lott-Software Architect)
• Salesforce announces deal to buy digital marketing firm ExactTarget for $2.5 billion (The Next Web)
• Dew Drop – June 4, 2013 (#1,560) (Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew)
• New Technologies Change the Way we Engage with Culture (Conversation Agent)
• Free Python ebook: Bayesian Methods for Hackers (Hacker News)
• How Go uses Go to build itself (Hacker News)
• Sustainable Automated Testing (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• Breaking Down IBM’s Definition of DevOps (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• Big Data is More than Correlation and Causality (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• So, What’s in a Story? (Agile Zone – Software Methodologies for Development Managers)
• The Real Lessons of Lego (for Software) (Agile Zone – Software Methodologies for Development Managers)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 4, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Get your mobile application backed by the cloud with the Mobile Backend Starter (Cloud Platform Blog)
• Open for Big Data: When Mule Meets the Elephant (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)

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