Brian Parsons

Looks neat. PHP esque + python string manipulation model is very tempting. My personal blog uses Mako which is embedded-python templates.

Link: The Slash Programming Language

Nice sleuthing and humorously written alert / background info on SSL connections in Android. SSL is one of the least problematic security / privacy issues with a smartphone, but I found it entertaining as I have gone through a round of hardening servers and apps and in the process have learned much about ciphers and handshake protocols.

Link: Why Android SSL was downgraded from AES256-SHA to RC4-MD5 in late 2010

Very interesting approach to increasing the quality and speed of your coding as well as learning new languages.

Link: Using Katas To Improve

I have had the pleasure of working with AlchemyAPI and it is for real. I found it to be excellent at entity and sentiment extraction. For many applications if you are looking for certain things (like brands) - you can have it leverage your own dictionary as one of the sources. Truly brilliant and for real. It's great to see those guys getting some due finally.

Link: AlchemyAPI says it’s delivering Google-level deep learning as a service

Great info on how to optimize mobile apps to be easy on data and battery.

Link: If You're Programming a Cell Phone Like a Server You're Doing it Wrong