A developer reflects on the value of participating in tech Q&A communities and shares the surprise of receiving the Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011.
A developer plans to participate in the Ludum Dare game jam, detailing the tools and libraries they'll use for game creation.
Discusses the ethics and legal guidelines of excerpting content online, focusing on adding value over just avoiding copyright issues.
Explains how to use Windows Azure Traffic Manager for geographic distribution and high availability of cloud applications, with failover strategies.
Announcing the beta release of Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0.0, featuring a management API, improved logging, and DateTime object support.
A gallery showcasing CSS3 gradient patterns, including a new 'Japanese cubes' design, with browser support details.
Slides and demo code for a talk on integrating ASP.NET MVC 3, MEF, and NuGet to create loosely coupled, easy-to-use architectures.
A guide to inverting all colors on a webpage using only CSS, with a cross-browser bookmarklet and browser support details.
A developer shares insights from a WordPress meetup talk on HTML and PHP basics, explaining how to edit code without breaking a site.
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.
The article argues for using WordPress as a document management system, leveraging its core features like custom post types, revisions, and permissions.
Guide on resolving the 'OracleXEService should not be installed already' error during Oracle XE 11gR2 beta installation on Windows.
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.
