Analyzes the TV show Continuum to discuss real-world surveillance, IoT security risks, and the erosion of privacy in a connected world.
Explores C# string interpolation and a custom StringTemplate library for named placeholders, useful for localization and readability.
Oracle OBIEE SampleApp v406 is now available as a public Amazon EC2 AMI for development and testing in the cloud.
An interactive exploration using IPython to simulate and understand the mathematical model behind 'The Hipster Effect' paper on conformity and non-conformity.
A technical guide on patching Wine to fix a timeout error and run Hearthstone's Goblins vs Gnomes expansion on Linux.
Tips for improving Drupal performance by optimizing database indexes and SQL queries, inspired by Doom's difficulty levels.
A guide to improving Drupal site performance by identifying and removing unused modules to reduce memory footprint and optimize server response.
A review of Scott Jehl's book 'Responsible Responsive Design', covering advanced responsive web design techniques, performance, and accessibility.
Guide to using Azure Management API SDK within a custom Entity Framework database initializer to control Azure SQL database tier creation.
A developer's guide to using Vagrant for virtual machine management and transitioning from shell scripts to Puppet for advanced provisioning.
Explains how to audit OBIEE Presentation Catalog activity, like tracking who deleted reports, using custom log filters and Presentation Services logging.
A 2014 TechEd talk on Azure API Management, now archived, with slides and a dead video link.
GitHub shares 15 rules for effective asynchronous communication and collaboration in a distributed, tech-focused workplace.
Part 3 of a series on visualizing data in Kibana after loading it from Hadoop via Elasticsearch, comparing Kibana 3 and 4.
Part 2 of a tutorial on loading data from Hadoop/Hive into Elasticsearch for analysis with Kibana.
Explains a workaround for passing parameters by reference to async methods in C# using a custom Ref<T> class.
A collection of technical blog posts from October focused on Microsoft Azure deployment, management, and troubleshooting.
Introduction to using Kibana and Elasticsearch with Hadoop for visualizing and analyzing big data from web logs, tweets, and blog metadata.
A method to automate unit testing for null argument validation, reducing repetitive test code for methods with multiple parameters.
A technical deep-dive into building a tag engine similar to Stack Overflow's, covering data processing, memory usage, and performance.
