A personal recap of the author's experiences and key technical talks from days 2-4 of the PyCon 2010 conference.
Exploring GCC-CLI, an experimental GCC branch with a .NET CIL backend and frontend for compiling between native and managed code.
Discusses a security vulnerability in OBIEE's JMX remote access and provides steps to secure it with password authentication.
Troubleshooting an OBIEE authentication failure caused by an expired cookie from a misconfigured F5 load balancer in an EBS integration.
Explores the evolving role of the 'DevBA'—a database developer who incorporates DBA skills like performance tuning and using DMVs to build better systems.
Explains the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) using a shed-building analogy, focusing on its core concepts: export, import, and compose.
A free driver for Windows 7 Location API that provides geolocation to apps using Google's services via WiFi or IP.
Oracle's performance recommendations for OBIA 7.9.6, focusing on ETL improvements and hardware sizing.
Explains how to implement a queue processing system in SQL Server using table hints like UPDLOCK and READPAST to ensure reliable, concurrent processing.
A technical guide on safely converting a SQL Server primary key index from nonclustered to clustered (or vice versa) using a temporary unique constraint.
A guide to the simplest Mercurial workflow, 'Branch as Needed,' for small projects, contrasting with structured Git models.
A developer creates a Valentine's Day-themed game about a geek avoiding girls using traps and a time machine.
A personal recap of the first two days at PyCon 2010, covering the Language Summit and key Python community discussions.
Announcement and preview of SQLBits VI, a free SQL Server conference in London focused on performance and scalability.
Compares the committer models and development processes of three Python projects: Unladen Swallow, PyPy, and Django.
A presentation on developing and deploying PHP applications on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform, including slides and sample code.
Explains why using explicit, meaningful names for SQL constraints is better than relying on autogenerated names for easier maintenance and safer deployments.
A developer's solution for using Managed Fusion URL Rewriter to proxy requests from an IIS server to an internal Apache server.
Analysis of Oracle's fragmented online support ecosystem, comparing official blogs, forums, and communities to the effective Oracle-L mailing list.
Introduces Sharpy, an ASP.NET MVC view engine using Smarty syntax for cleaner, designer-friendly templates with extensibility via MEF.
