Geek Reading for the Weekend

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.

• Why You Make Less Money (job tips for geeks)
• Nate Silver Gets Real About Big Data (ReadWrite)
• Java StringBuilder myth debunked (Java Code Geeks)
• Dew Drop – March 29, 2013 (#1,517) (Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew)
• Generation Mooch? Why 20-somethings have a hard time paying for content (GigaOM)
• Double Shot #1096 (A Fresh Cup)
• Connecting Talking with Doing (Conversation Agent)
• Games Galore: Building Atari with CreateJS (noupe)
• Putting People in Boxes (Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices)
• Do Code Improvements Add Value? (Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices)
• Cassandra 1.1 – Reading and Writing from SSTable Perspective (Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices)
• Couchbase NoSQL at Tunewiki: A Billion Documents and Counting (Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 29, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Using Kanban for Scrum Backlog Grooming (Agile Zone – Software Methodologies for Development Managers)
• Humming (xkcd.com)
• Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A Social Advantage Over Apple(TechCrunch)

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