Asaf Zamir – Chief Technology Officer & AI/Cloud Consultant. Founder of CloudExpat, AZdev. Author of Coder to CTO.

In a move that may surprise many, Microsoft just made a deal to buy LinkedIn,
for the amount of $26.2 Billion.

How does this compare to the Whatsapp deal (last huge tech buy)? Well, since a picture is worth a thousand words, I've decided to make an infographic (almost a picture):

After another cross-country move, I've had to leave my mighty Workspace behind (complete with 2 monitors and a fierce Desktop PC). I've taken my Laptop with me, thinking that's really all I need, as I could do all my work while sitting in a park meditating (or some other ridiculous notion). Obviously I was totally wrong!

I've recently restarted my genealogical research efforts, to find out more about my family's history.
In many cases, especially people of Jewish-European origins, not much is known by the ones who stayed alive (20th century Europe has seen a lot).
Many archives are recent, and some German/Polish/Russian archives have only recently been scanned and digitized.

As most of you have noticed, I (almost) always post on a Thursday.
This year, for the first time since 2009, New Year's Eve is on a Thursday!
So first of all Happy New Year everyone! Let's make this year kick 2015's ass!

I've recently read an interesting article, talking about the job market for JavaScript in 2016.
While the article presented great points on why Web Developers should invest some time and work with JavaScript, the job & market related information was US-centric. I wanted to see how things look like on the European front.