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.
Guide to creating a custom SPSolutionValidator for validating sandboxed solutions in SharePoint 2010.
Guide to displaying messages in SharePoint 2010 using Status bar and Notification areas with JavaScript.
A developer builds an FTP server bridge to access and manage Windows Azure Blob Storage, allowing file operations via standard FTP clients.
Explores whether programming languages inherently have performance characteristics by comparing Python and C implementations.
A developer's personal experience and key takeaways from attending the QCon London 2010 technology conference, covering talks on architecture and .NET.
A web-based tool for testing and understanding CSS3 structural pseudo-class selectors like nth-child and nth-of-type with live element manipulation.
A developer's postmortem analysis of a personal game project, 'A Geek Valentine', covering development time, graphics, and simple AI implementation.
How to resolve ORA-13757 error when deleting an active SQL Tuning Set in Oracle, including diagnostic queries and cleanup steps.
