Analysis of HP's marketing claims against Oracle Exadata, focusing on technical FUD and balanced system design for data warehousing.
Announcement of the official Windows Phone 7 app for Belgium TechDays 2011, built with Silverlight, Azure, and jQuery.
Oracle's technical documentation is available in Kindle and iPad-friendly formats, making it easier to read and learn from.
A guide to manually deploying PHP applications to Windows Azure with a custom, lightweight setup, including creating package templates and configuration files.
Practical advice for first-time attendees of tech conferences, focusing on networking, learning, and event etiquette.
An in-depth exploration of JavaScript's comma operator, covering its syntax, precedence, and practical use cases in code.
Guide on resolving the 'OracleXEService should not be installed already' error during Oracle XE 11gR2 beta installation on Windows.
The article argues for using WordPress as a document management system, leveraging its core features like custom post types, revisions, and permissions.
A PyPy developer details optimizing Python code for the Computer Language Shootout benchmarks, revealing CPython-specific hacks and cross-implementation challenges.
A guide to creating complex, readable regular expressions in JavaScript by composing them from smaller, reusable sub-patterns.
A programmer reflects on using VBA for Excel automation after starting with BASIC, discussing the language's quirks and suitability for data processing.
Updates to a .NET app for importing Ordnance Survey's 1:50000 Scale Gazetteer geographic dataset into SQL Server with spatial data support.
Exploring Apache Cocoon 3 for streamlined XML processing with Java, including setup and code examples for parsing RSS feeds.
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A technical guide on implementing proper animated GIF support in WPF applications, addressing common pitfalls and providing a clean solution.
A script to automatically convert standard CSS gradient syntax to the older, cumbersome -webkit-gradient format for broader browser support.
A technical guide on implementing auto-scaling for PHP applications on the Windows Azure cloud platform, including certificate setup and a CLI tool.
Explores the debate on responsive web design vs. mobile context, analyzing if mobile users need different content than desktop users.
A technical guide on programmatically scaling .NET applications on Windows Azure using management certificates and a custom command-line tool.
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Explains how to bind data in WPF when the DataContext is not inherited, using the Freezable class as a workaround.
A guide to building a WordPress plugin that uses regex to convert Microsoft Word footnotes into a web-friendly format for the Simple Footnotes plugin.
