Reading List Week 5/6 2015

6th February 2015

Stack Exchange Raises $40m - What’s happening at Stack Exchange?
Mapbox Open - How Mapbox do Open Source and Open Data, a must read, more companies should work against this!
Desktop apps are back, thanks to the Web! - How packaged apps from Mozilla and Google together with solutions such as NW.js()node-webkit and Adobe Brackets-Shell brings web apps to the desktop.
The many different kinds of time - working with parsing time/date data from different time zones, you hate time. Simply read more about it.
C is Manly, Python is for “n00bs”: How False Stereotypes Turn Into Technical “Truths” - I can’t agree with the author, all “cool” startups is making languages such as Python and Ruby cooler then C. Who break/fix things fast in C?!

TileStache, Generate Topo/GeoJSON Vector Tiles - Just what I was looking after for my latest project: Vector Map Time Slider.
QGIS 2.6 på Svenska - It’s time for me to learn QGIS. Anyone knows a great updated book in English?

MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011 - Has been watching this during travel since August. Now I have reached the end.
Seminars from Wiki Loves Maps(yesterday) - History and maps fits my interests pretty well.