For some reason this year turned out to be a year with a lot of time spend on bicycles. While I have been cycling more since I changed to a company which allowed me to park my bicycle in the office, this year I increased this even more. One part of this has definitely be Strava, which allows me to track my riding and improvements (or not) over time. Some numbers for 2014, 2013 in brackets: ...
Wheeler: How to Prevent the next Heartbleed http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/heartbleed.html Rails 3.2.18, 4.0.5 and 4.1.1 have been released! http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/5/6/Rails_3_2_18_4_0_5_and_4_1_1_have_been_released/ Is TDD Dead? The big fight live! https://plus.google.com/events/ci2g23mk0lh9too9bgbp3rbut0k Atlassian: Moving from roadmaps to requirements http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/05/moving-roadmaps-requirements/ Update on Disqus: It’s Still About Realtime, But Go Demolishes Python http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/5/7/update-on-disqus-its-still-about-realtime-but-go-demolishes.html
The Three Flaws in Software Design & How to Avoid Them http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOU2XLYxmsIJ7HGm2bv20QrtwcWemSRCI Github: Updated Services UI https://github.com/blog/1827-updated-services-ui Atlassian: Now in JIRA Agile Labs: an all new control chart http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/04/now-jira-agile-labs-new-control-chart/ Atlassian: 6 key ways to optimize development with a control chart http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/04/6-key-ways-optimize-development-control-chart/ How Disqus Went Realtime with 165K Messages Per Second and Less than .2 Seconds Latency http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/28/how-disqus-went-realtime-with-165k-messages-per-second-and-l.html 3 ways to do eager loading (preloading) in Rails 3 & 4 http://blog.arkency.com/2013/12/rails4-preloading/ Drowning in problems: http://game.notch.net/drowning/ There were also some rants about TDD, which I am not going to bother to list
John Resig: Write Code Every Day http://ejohn.org/blog/write-code-every-day/ Agilar: Scrum teams: self-organizing or self-directed? http://blog.agilar.org/index.php/2014/04/09/scrum-teams-self-organizing-or-self-directed/ etsy engineering youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/etsyengineering
Spotify engineering culture (part 1) http://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/ Etsy: Web Experimentation with New Visitors http://codeascraft.com/2014/04/03/web-experimentation-with-new-visitors/ TED: What motivates us at work? 7 fascinating studies that give insights http://blog.ted.com/2013/04/10/what-motivates-us-at-work-7-fascinating-studies-that-give-insights/