A developer returns to blogging, outlining a list of modern DevOps and cloud technologies to explore and asking readers to vote on the next topic.
A technical article discussing the problem of link rot on the internet and advocating for personal archiving strategies using tools like wget and cron jobs.
A software engineer outlines seven common antipatterns for prioritizing feature requests in software development projects.
Explores a neural network model, sketch-rnn, that generates vector drawings by learning from human sketch sequences, mimicking abstract visual concepts.
A technical guide on adding a custom bytecode instruction (IL opcode) to the .NET CoreCLR runtime, including steps for the runtime, JIT, and Reflection.Emit.
A tutorial on using the BurntToast PowerShell module to create toast notifications for new Stack Overflow questions, demonstrating custom buttons.
SwiftGen 4.2 released with major internal refactoring, plus updates on other open-source projects like Reusable and fastlane.
Part 3 of a series on offloading ETL to Spark on Amazon EMR, focusing on running PySpark code on a provisioned EMR cluster.
Explains how the .NET Garbage Collector works and provides techniques to reduce memory allocations for faster applications.
Oracle's October 2016 security patches for OBIEE, Big Data Discovery, and ODI, detailing vulnerabilities and required actions.
A step-by-step guide to integrating Serilog for structured logging in an ASP.NET Core application, including configuration and dependency injection.
Explores the potential memory savings of storing strings in a more compact encoding like ASCII/Latin-1 within the .NET CLR, using real-world data from Stack Overflow.
A curated list of five interesting Python tutorials covering music generation, computer vision, data science, and popular modules.
A guide encouraging developers to contribute to open-source projects like AngularJS by improving documentation, not just code.
Fixing a Kafka Connect HDFS/Hive integration error caused by using the wrong converter class, preventing automatic schema creation.
Explains how to use the linker's --wrap flag to mock C standard library functions for unit testing, enabling isolated code testing.
Explains a misleading OBIEE 12c error when importing a non-existent BAR file and advises reading full error logs.
A software tester's reflection on the unpredictable pace of testing within Agile sprints, comparing it to a dance rhythm.
A critique of complex multi-environment deployment workflows, arguing they create more problems than they solve.
An analysis of Butler Lampson's 1999 predictions on computer science, comparing what worked then to the state of technology in 2015.
