Hacktivism, Idle Time, & More…

by Tom Helvick

The dev digest is back again this week with all the best articles, stories, and videos on software development. Stay on top of the news, latest trends in development, and leadership insights when you subscribe to the dev digest!

Top Stories

• 5.5% of the world’s top websites aren’t implementing HTTPS and TLS correctly, and data might be exposed despite using HTTPS
• A fraud researcher from TripAdvisor went on a borderline-obsessive hunt of a robocaller falsely posing as TripAdvisor — what he found was fascinating and disturbing
• There are more hacktivist groups — like Anonymous or LulzSec — than ever before, but are they effective at bringing about social change?

Dev Corner

• Golang’s new cloud development kit makes deployment to AWS, GCP, and Azure easier than ever
• Cutting across the class inheritance hierarchy in Java with OOP interfaces allows us to define common behavior that can be implemented by any class, regardless of its inheritance
• Have an application that needs key-value storage but haven’t used Redis before? Here’s a quickstart guide in Java
• Creating a .NET Core app with a single Docker command using the Microsoft container registry

Professional Advice

• Doing nothing can’t be better than doing something! Or can it? Idle time at work leads to greater productivity, according to research
• Agile managers can’t be authoritarian. If you say you’re agile, then you need to trust your team members to make their own decisions
• RescueTime studied 185 million hours of working time to draw conclusions about productivity and work-life balance — the results are troubling for workplace productivity

Tips from Intertech

• Web Accessibility doesn’t only apply to federal agencies. An Intertech employee shares her story.
• Making your first open source contributions can be intimidating. Check out our guide covering how to contribute to open source projects, starting from zero.

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