Highlights from Microsoft PDC 2009 keynote, focusing on the 'three-screen' cloud vision, Azure, and new developer tools releases.
A developer troubleshoots and resolves a sawserver error related to a corrupted web catalog during an Oracle BI installation.
An experimental JavaScript approach to creating elastic textareas that auto-adjust height without hidden divs, discussing browser compatibility.
Analyzing Django's error messages by replicating common typos from a Rails tutorial comparison to see how helpful they are for debugging.
A developer's critical rant about the problematic migration from Oracle Metalink to the new My Oracle Support system, focusing on poor usability and performance.
Guide to configuring Oracle BI Presentation Services Plug-in for load balancing and failover across multiple OBIEE servers.
A tutorial on localizing ASP.NET MVC 2 DataAnnotations validation error messages using resource files instead of hardcoded strings.
Advanced Google search techniques for finding Oracle OBIEE documentation, PDFs, and resources, including using alerts.
Fixing ORA-28001 and ORA-01017 errors when changing expired passwords on Oracle 11g using 10g clients.
A developer investigates a bug where OpenOffice incorrectly sends desktop switching signals, acting like a pager instead of a text processor.
A blog recommendation for posts covering Entity Framework errors, stored procedures, and dynamic LINQ queries with expression trees.
A programmer debates the ethics of downloading out-of-print, pirated ebooks when legal digital versions are unavailable, weighing copyright law against practical and environmental concerns.
Announcing a presentation on OpenXML document interoperability from an open-source perspective, featuring PHPExcel and OPENXML4J.
A screencast tutorial demonstrating how to use the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder to improve code maintainability and testability.
A tutorial on implementing partial page updates in ASP.NET MVC using jQuery and a custom action filter to switch master pages for Ajax requests.
Announcement of upcoming talks on Hades, a Java persistence library, at various developer conferences and user groups.
Explores the conceptual role of metadata in Java EE development, comparing annotations vs. XML and discussing separation of concerns.
Zend Framework 1.7 now includes native OpenXML indexing support for Lucene, simplifying document search integration.
A developer highlights key upcoming features in Django 1.1, including ORM aggregation, model validation, and class-based generic views.
Fixing Lightning calendar and Thunderbird integration issues after an Ubuntu Intrepid clean install by installing libstdc++5.
