(via Five Reasons to use Debian as a Server ) What to choose for a low maintenance, secure and reliable server-side Linux distro: Debian Rock solid and stable Easy and smooth upgrades, even between major versions Best of breed package manager Search inspired by Marco Arment’s Web Hosting For App Developers post.
(via What’s wrong with this picture? | Code.org ) Computer science is a top paying college degree and computer programming jobs are growing at 2x the national average . Less than 2.4% of college students graduate with a degree in computer science. And the numbers have dropped since last decade. See also Promote Computer Science | Code.org
(via Why It’s Important to Sketch Before You Wireframe – UX Movement ) Where by “Code” you should really read “Prototype”.
sketchplanations: Mobile is snorkelling. Desktop is diving. Metaphors for interface design from Rachel Hinman via Mobile First .
uxdtoday: “When you don’t consider UX /UI in design: These pencils were withdrawn from US schools” – @raju
Everybody’s reachable. (by Gary Vaynerchuk ) Interesting left field concept of each business becoming it’s own media company focused on a collateral subject area their target audience is interested in, and not directly about their core business. You’re in the " media business , legal services" … I’m in the " media business , agency/wine" … ( Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )
(via Everything You Hate About Advertising in One Fake Video That’s Almost Too Real | Adweek) This is a Generic Brand Video Made entirely with stock footage from Dissolve … and adding to the shopping card all the licensed clips of this 2:30 movie would set you back: Total: $6,645.00 USD yikes! :-/ ( Source: https://www.youtube.com/ )
And still on the note of video stock footage… Templates for After Effects, Apple Motion and Cinema 4D | VideoHive
fundersandfounders: Too Late To Start? quarter-life crisis and mid-life crisis
Java 8 Tutorial “Java is still not dead—and people are starting to figure that out.” Welcome to my introduction to Java 8 . (…) At the end of the article you’ll be familiar with the most recent API changes like streams, functional interfaces, map extensions and the new Date API. No walls of text – just a bunch of commented code snippets. Enjoy! Default Methods for Interfaces Lambda expressions Functional Interfaces Method and Constructor References Lambda Scopes Built-in Functional Interfaces Streams Parallel Streams Map Date API Annotations