A developer shares insights on designing tech conferences to foster meaningful hallway track conversations, covering break lengths, venue layout, and social activities.
A guide to selecting speakers and ensuring talk quality for technology conferences, covering methods like invite-only, coaching, and open CFPs.
A developer details a new, enhanced Ball Tree and KD-Tree implementation for scikit-learn, comparing its performance and features to existing solutions.
A reflection on key elements that make a tech conference great, focusing on talk quality, speaker selection methods, and attendee experience.
A new NuGet 2.5 package automates the removal of XML documentation from Windows 8/Phone 8 app packages, simplifying the build process.
A practical guide for R users on optimizing code for speed, balancing performance with readability and real-world time constraints.
A guide to automating reprint requests in Gmail using custom mailto links, filters, and canned responses.
A seminar on Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript, covering patterns and a modular architecture demo.
Explains the benefits of using the publish/subscribe pattern in JavaScript for loose coupling and separation of concerns in MV* architectures.
Article argues HTML5 apps are viable, citing examples like Forecast.io and ExFM, but hindered by poor Android WebView support.
A technical guide on implementing a Persona Identity Provider, focusing on Python and addressing gaps in Mozilla's official documentation.
Announces the 1.0.0.M5 milestone release of Spring Integration templates for Spring Tool Suite, featuring updates and improvements.
A technical guide on detecting dependency property changes in WinRT using a binding-based workaround, presented as a reusable extension method.
Useful Windows registry tweaks for developers to improve workflow, including Visual Studio and multi-monitor setup fixes.
The author explains their motivation for adding SSL to their website: to become a Persona identity provider, discussing centralized online identity solutions.
A historical and technical look at the evolution of User-Agent strings, born from the browser wars and used for feature detection.
A Heroku engineer shares his personal perspective on how the platform has operated and evolved since its acquisition by Salesforce two years prior.
A guide to using PostgreSQL's array_agg function to efficiently aggregate and format data, avoiding manual application-level processing.
A deep dive into writing extremely concise Python code, using the creation of a Sudoku solver as an example to explore code golf techniques.
