Discusses Google's ranking algorithm update prioritizing site speed, addressing web designers' concerns about balancing aesthetics with performance.
Hades 1.5 released, removing the mandatory Persistable interface requirement and introducing new XML namespace features for Spring/JPA applications.
A game developer discusses taking a break from game making to learn new tools like Vim and Haskell, and how exploring different programming paradigms improves skills.
A technical guide on creating and mounting Windows Azure Drives for PHP or Ruby applications using a custom .NET HTTP module.
A technical overview of running PHP applications on Windows Azure, covering scaling, storage, and SQL Azure with sample code.
Explains how to inject Spring beans into non-managed artifacts like Servlets using SpringBeanAutowiringSupport, reducing boilerplate code.
Explains why SQL CAST to VARCHAR without specifying a length can cause errors or truncation, and advises always defining the size.
Discusses how consumer-friendly devices like the iPad will make cloud computing mainstream by making it transparent and seamless for users.
A technical discussion on intentional symbol capture in Clojure macros for GUI development, using a Swing wizard as a case study.
A guide to using Apache Tika for extracting content and metadata from various file formats like PDFs, images, and Office docs in content repositories.
A developer reflects on shutting down a phpBB forum they didn't build themselves, preferring the satisfaction of using their own custom-built tools.
A technical talk on building RESTful web applications using the Spring 3 framework, including sample code.
A guide and demo session on migrating an existing ASP.NET application to the Windows Azure cloud platform, covering hosting, storage, and SQL Azure.
Exploring advanced CSS counter techniques and demonstrating them with a CSS3 Reversi game UI implementation.
Explores a technical issue with the 'lein swank' command in Clojure's Leiningen build tool related to Java class loading and charset encoding.
A review of the SpriteMe bookmarklet, a tool for creating CSS sprites to optimize website performance by reducing HTTP requests.
A developer shares lessons learned from creating seven experimental games, focusing on iteration, execution, and goal-setting.
A developer outlines ideal working relationships with designers, from best-case collaboration to worst-case scenarios.
A proposal for improving Django's application architecture with 'Application Objects' to solve issues like model extensibility and GenericForeignKey misuse.
How rewriting a MySQL query to use indexes properly improved performance from 10 seconds to 0.03 seconds.
