Explores different metrics for web performance budgets, comparing milestone timings, SpeedIndex, quantity-based, and rule-based approaches.
Analyzes the TV show Continuum to discuss real-world surveillance, IoT security risks, and the erosion of privacy in a connected world.
How to distinguish between multiple UIActionSheets in Swift using tags and enumerations for cleaner code.
How to distinguish between multiple UIActionSheets in a single Swift view controller using tags and enums.
Explores C# string interpolation and a custom StringTemplate library for named placeholders, useful for localization and readability.
Explores using simulated annealing to solve the traveling salesman problem, using the London Underground Tube Challenge as an example.
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.
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 technical guide on patching Wine to fix a timeout error and run Hearthstone's Goblins vs Gnomes expansion on Linux.
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.
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.
Part 2 of a tutorial on loading data from Hadoop/Hive into Elasticsearch for analysis with Kibana.
