obihackers IRC channel
Introduction to the #obihackers IRC channel for discussing Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE), ODI, and general tech topics in an informal setting.
Introduction to the #obihackers IRC channel for discussing Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE), ODI, and general tech topics in an informal setting.
A discussion on the historical use and modern challenges of strong-naming .NET assemblies, advocating against the practice in 2016.
Analysis of the Apple vs FBI encryption case, arguing that longer passcodes can maintain iPhone security even if Apple loses.
Exploring the development of ng2lint, a configurable static code analyzer for Angular 2 and TypeScript projects to enforce style guides and best practices.
Explains linear splines, their mathematical basis, and two practical parametrizations for regression, comparing them to higher-degree splines.
A guide to using Git Credential Manager (GCM) for seamless authentication with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Git repositories on multiple platforms.
A guide to streaming custom system metrics into InfluxDB using bash commands, sed, awk, and curl for monitoring with tools like Grafana.
A curated list of resources for beginners to learn Python specifically for data science, including tutorials, courses, and books.
A developer recreates a real-time data visualization, plotting geotagged tweets about Trump on a 3D globe using d3, socket.io, and the Twitter API.
A history of visualizing OBIEE DMS metrics, from early JMX tools to modern Grafana dashboards.
Explains the importance of metrics for diagnosing OBIEE performance issues and introduces an updated monitoring tool.
A developer explains their decision to start a new blog using Hugo and GitHub Pages, aiming for weekly posts.
A tutorial on using Python, Tesseract, and Wand to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on PDF files and extract text.
The article critiques Google's AMP framework, arguing it restricts web development freedom, and proposes a standardized alternative for performance verification.
Guide to installing and configuring a third-party driver to use an Xbox 360 controller on macOS El Capitan.
A developer shares their initial two-week experience with Terraform, detailing the highs of versioned infrastructure and the lows of debugging and module refactoring.
XAML Behaviors for UWP updated to version 1.1.0, featuring bug fixes and a change to strong-name signing.
A guide to using Azure AD Service Principals and custom RBAC roles for secure, automated VM management in Azure Automation Runbooks.
Explores practical use cases for CSS container queries, a proposed feature for responsive web design, with code examples for modular components.
A technical tutorial on implementing the Midpoint Displacement algorithm for procedural terrain generation in a game engine context.