Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 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.

• Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone (Google Developers Blog)
• SAP to acquire Hybris to jumpstart its presence in e-commerce (VentureBeat)
• A Study on Solving Callbacks with JavaScript Generators (Hacker News)
• History of Lisp (Hacker News)
• A handy list of RSS readers with feature comparisons (Hacker News)
• Improving testing by using real traffic from production (Hacker News)
• Pandora launches new HTML5 site for TVs and gaming consoles, available now on PS3 and Xbox 360 (The Next Web)
• Dew Drop – June 5, 2013 (#1,561) (Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew)
• Why haven’t cash-strapped American schools embraced open source? (Hacker News)
• Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS (Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices)
• Using MongoDB as a cache store (Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices)
• Linux System Mining with Python (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• Java EE 7 is Final. Thoughts, Insights and Further Pointers. (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• Why Are Public Fields No Good, Again? (DaedTech)
• Email Reveals Google App Engine Search API About Ready For Preview Release, Charges Planned For Storage, Operations (TechCrunch)
• Learning Through Simulation (Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 5, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Derby v0.5.0 – The first OT-powered realtime web app framework (Hacker News)
• These transparent solar cells provide 50% more battery life for your phone — and ‘infinite’ standby time (VentureBeat)
• Parse Launches Web Apps with the Express Web Framework (Hacker News)
• Google Analytics Becomes A Robust Testing Platform With Content Experiments API (Google Analytics Blog)
• Real-Time Garbage Collection Is Real (Hacker News)

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