- Microsoft launches Azure cloud in a box #cloudcomputing – Microsoft is teaming with Dell to create an Azure cloud in a box offering for customers who want to run their own, on-premises datacenters. Microsoft executives took the wraps off the new offering, known officially as the "Microsoft Cloud Platform System
- Marc Andreessen on Why Optimism Is Safest Bet — NYMag – At a controversial moment for the tech industry, Andreessen is the sector’s biggest cheerleader and a forceful advocate for his peculiar brand of futurism.
- SwiftOverlays -SwiftOverlays is a Swift GUI library for displaying various popups and notifications. – SwiftOverlays is a Swift GUI library for displaying various popups and notifications.
- Implementing an Android REST Client using Retrofit – Last time we talked about how to create a simple REST client using the android-async-http library by James Smith. In this post, we're basically going to implement the same functionality using another awesome library: Retrofit
- Retrofit – A type-safe REST client for Android and Java – Retrofit turns your REST API into a Java interface. A type-safe REST client for Android and Java
- New open-source Machine Learning Framework written in Java – The Datumbox Machine Learning Framework is an open-source framework written in Java which enables the rapid development of Machine Learning models and Statistical applications. It is the code that currently powers up the Datumbox API. The main focus of the framework is to include a large number of machine learning algorithms & statistical methods and be able to handle small-medium sized datasets.
- CodeKit: THE Mac App For Web Developers – CodeKit helps you build websites faster and better. See its flagship features below, then get a real feel for the app on the Videos page.
- Executive Change Is Latest Hint of Chrome-Android Marriage – Digits – WSJ – In choosing Lockheimer to lead engineering for Chrome as well as Android, Pichai is signaling to his teams that Android is the future, according to a person familiar with the personnel change.
- iOS8 Day-by-Day – Build a Today Extension – This post is part of a daily series of posts introducing the most exciting new parts of iOS8 for developers – #iOS8DayByDay. To see the posts you've missed check out the introduction page, but have a read through the rest of this post first!
- Why Germany Is So Much Better at Training Its Workers – The Atlantic – America rarely uses an apprenticeship model to teach young people a trade. Could such a system help the unemployed?