Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week.
A federal judge learned to code
The judge presiding over the Oracle/Google case learned Java, and that skill came in handy when coding specifics arose during the trial. It’s proof that coding is a part of cultural competence, even if you never do it professionally.
The chicken and egg of big data solutions
So, here we are with all of this disruptive big data technology, but we seem to have lost the institutional wherewithal to do anything with it in a lot of large companies, at least until package solutions come along.
DIY learning: Schoolers, Edupunks, and Makers challenge education
Schoolers, Edupunks and Makers are showing us what’s possible when learners, not institutions, own the education that will define their lives.
John Allspaw on DevOps
John Allspaw discusses DevOps in high-volume web companies and the importance of cooperation between development and operations.
JavaScript and Dart: Can we do better?
O’Reilly editor Simon St. Laurent talked with Google’s Seth Ladd about the challenges of improving the web. How can we build on JavaScript’s ubiquity while addressing performance, team, and scale issues?
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