Examining Postgres 9.4 - A first look
A first look at PostgreSQL 9.4's new features, including pg_prewarm, concurrent materialized view refresh, and ordered set aggregates.
A first look at PostgreSQL 9.4's new features, including pg_prewarm, concurrent materialized view refresh, and ordered set aggregates.
A developer recounts debugging a bizarre bug in a custom calculator kernel that only manifested when no breakpoints were set.
Discusses the debate around defaulting to libraries like jQuery, arguing for evaluating their necessity to reduce page weight and improve performance.
A guide for tech-savvy individuals to help family members set up a robust, local backup system for personal data, focusing on photos and videos.
A satirical critique of source control, arguing for USB drives, to highlight flawed reasoning in tech outage reactions.
Explains how to resize Docker containers using the Device Mapper storage driver, with notes on outdated methods and modern alternatives.
Using Python's SUDS library to interact with OBIEE's SOAP web services for tasks like authentication and checking user permissions.
Strategies for creating effective developer-focused marketing content, including tutorials, timely posts, and expressing strong technical beliefs.
A developer reflects on the real stories behind CV entries, like an unpaid internship spent pitching buggy software, highlighting the gap between resume bullet points and actual experience.
Explores the evolving definition of open source, debating whether it's about collaborative contribution or the right to freely modify software.
A technical guide on using PowerShell to download and analyze AWS billing reports from S3, focusing on cost and usage data.
Explores a Go design pattern using self-referential functions to create a clean, extensible API for setting and managing options on a type.
Explores how relational databases like PostgreSQL can adopt benefits from NoSQL, such as schemaless flexibility and JSON document storage.
A Python tutorial on creating a cleanup script using the path.py library to count and manage files and directories.
Explores automated regression testing for OBIEE, focusing on data integrity after RPD changes instead of front-end UI testing.
A warning about buying cheap, 'upgraded' SD cards on eBay, explaining how they are fake and will corrupt your data.
Explores applying equation-free modeling techniques to optimize control of complex ecological systems simulated by individual-based models.
A PHP tutorial on using regular expressions to convert hashtags, mentions, and URLs in tweets into clickable HTML links.
A technical guide on using AWS CloudTrail, S3, SNS, SQS, and PowerShell to process and route AWS API event logs for automation.
A developer shares their experience implementing the 8-puzzle solver in Rust using A* and BFS algorithms, discussing language features and challenges.