Geek Reading Week of June 26, 2015

Leading today, VentureBeat reports on the quiet launch of Google’s Cloud Source Repositories. This seems like something we should have heard more about, but I don’t remember seeing anything about it. Amazon AWS announces the availability of all things Alexa, the Skills Kit, the Voice Service and a Fund. Last but not least, we have AJ Kohn, from Blind Five Year Old, talking about click-through rate being a ranking signal on Google’s search results. I don’t talk about SEO much, but reading AJ’s work is always fascinating.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Top Stories

• Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor, Cloud Source Repositories | VentureBeat
• Alexa Skills Kit, Alexa Voice Service, Alexa Fund | AWS Official Blog

Startups, Career and Process

• Why offices are where work goes to die | Swizec Teller
• Unleashing the power of small teams | Andreas Papathanasis
• What Is A Tester? | Developsense Blog
• What happens when you stop relying on resumes | Aline Lerner

Design and Development

• Swift 2: SIMD | Russ Bishop
• Why is Git better than Mercurial? | Javalobby
• Create a Maven archetype | Javalobby
• pip -t: A simple and transparent alternative to virtualenv | Zoomer Analytics
• Killing Off Wasabi – Part 1 | Fog Creek Blog
• WebAssembly- Explained | Modus Create
• Generating JSON Schema from XSD with JAXB and Jackson | Inspired by Actual Events

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Applying Machine Learning to Text Mining with Amazon S3 and RapidMiner | Amazon AWS

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Is Click Through Rate A Ranking Signal? | Blind Five Year Old
• Cache-friendly binary search | Bannalia
• Discovering the Computer Science Behind Postgres Indexes | Java Code Geeks
• How an open-source competitive benchmark helped to improve databases | ArangoDB

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Cracking JXcore… Again | Mark Haase

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: June 25, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Double Shot #1517 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – June 25, 2015 (#2042) | Morning Dew
• The Daily Six Pack: June 26, 2015 | Dirk Strauss