A software engineer reflects on a pivotal 2014, highlighting achievements in web accessibility, speaking at conferences, and personal growth in tech.
Learn how to stream your desktop to an HTML5 video element using VLC media player and HTTP Live Streaming.
A guide to installing VMware Tools on CentOS 6 using the yum package manager for streamlined and automated system management.
A personal roundup of the software, hardware, games, and books used by the author throughout the year, with a focus on technology and tools.
A developer's year-end review of 2014, covering open source contributions, blogging, and personal goals in software development.
A review of the five most popular web performance and responsive design articles from 2014, discussing speed, myths, and metrics.
The State of the News and TLS: Part II Tue, Dec 30, 2014 About six weeks ago I blogged about the state of the news and TLS. Spoiler alert, it wasn’t g
A technical tutorial on building a multi-user video conference application using WebRTC, AngularJS, and Yeoman with detailed WebRTC explanations.
Explores using ES6 generators for cleaner asynchronous JavaScript code, comparing them to callbacks and promises.
Discusses the misuse of guard clauses in code, arguing for domain-specific exceptions over generic null checks.
Explores the improved build process for ASP.NET 5 (vNext) projects, highlighting self-contained builds and simplified setup compared to traditional .NET.
A detailed review of Microsoft Azure's major updates, feature releases, and milestones throughout the year 2014.
A developer shares a script for sharing selected webpage text directly to Twitter, with automatic highlighting and URL hash integration.
Explores the cultural divide between technical developers (geeks) and non-technical managers (suits) in government IT and how startups invert this hierarchy.
Analyzes the cultural and technological barriers to modern software development practices in government IT, contrasting it with the private sector.
A developer discovers and documents a bug in Xcode where the @objc attribute fails to create the correct class name for Swift classes used in Objective-C.
Technical guide on optimizing Drupal performance by managing database indexes, queries, and removing unused modules.
Guide to monitoring OS metrics across a Linux cluster using colmux and collectl for system administrators.
A guide to configuring a Linux swap device on AWS instances using Cloud-Init's cloud-config syntax for persistent setup.
A guide to using PDSH for executing commands in parallel across a Linux cluster, covering setup and practical examples.
