Friday

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/

facebook: Looking back on “Look Back” videos https://code.facebook.com/posts/236248456565933/looking-back-on-look-back-videos/ Github: No Conversation Left Behind https://github.com/blog/1811-no-conversation-left-behind A Robot for Timo http://blog.printf.net/articles/2014/03/18/a-robot-for-timo/ Testing on the Toilet: What Makes a Good Test? http://googletesting.blogspot.de/2014/03/testing-on-toilet-what-makes-good-test.html Only 90s Web Developers Remember This http://zachholman.com/posts/only-90s-developers/ Tuenti Blog Tag: Continuous Integration: http://corporate.tuenti.com/en/dev/blog/tags/continuous%20integration Why your previous developer was terrible https://medium.com/p/506a06ae35ea Github: Switch your picture with ease https://github.com/blog/1803-switch-your-picture-with-ease Big, Small, Hot or Cold - Examples of Robust Data Pipelines from Stripe, Tapad, Etsy and Square http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/24/big-small-hot-or-cold-examples-of-robust-data-pipelines-from.html You Don’t Have Big Data… http://blog.mongohq.com/you-dont-have-big-data/

Google Geo Developer Blog: Marker Clustering and Heatmaps: New features in the Google Maps Android API Utility Library http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.de/2014/02/marker-clustering-and-heatmaps-new.html HHVM and Hack – Can We Expect Them to Replace PHP? http://www.sitepoint.com/hhvm-hack-part-1/ What Application Layer Does A DI Container Belong In? http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/5914 Mockery 0.9.0 Has Landed…Mostly In One Piece! http://blog.astrumfutura.com/2014/02/mockery-0-9-0-has-landed-mostly-in-one-piece/ Coding Standards: Humans Are Not Computers http://blog.astrumfutura.com/2014/02/coding-standards-humans-are-not-computers/