A Django core developer explains his personal system for prioritizing bug fixes, features, and contributions to the open-source framework.
A patch removing the traditional dashes from the Emacs mode-line has been merged into Emacs 24 for graphical mode.
A developer shares first impressions of a Windows Phone 7 prototype, highlighting UI features, syncing, and noting missing apps.
A guide to dynamically adjusting log levels at runtime using JMX and Spring, with a custom namespace example.
A developer shares a personal project from 2001-2003: Goal4D, a now-obsolete Java 3D engine, and considers open-sourcing it.
Announcement for a free, online Windows Azure conference with three technical tracks covering high-level concepts to deep technical sessions.
Explains why average I/O throughput metrics from AWR snapshots can be misleading for capacity planning, using real database examples.
A guide to exposing an on-premise database to Azure applications securely using OData and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus.
A guide to geotagging photos from non-GPS cameras using an iPhone's background GPS tracking and desktop software.
daloRADIUS adds invoice and payment management features to its billing system, requiring user entries in the userbillinfo table.
Explores methods for measuring real user response times in OBIEE, comparing simulated tests with actual user activity tracking.
A presentation on performance testing methodologies and best practices for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE).
Slides from a 2010 VISUG session on building rich web applications using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery as an alternative to Silverlight.
Exploring keyword arguments in Clojure, comparing defnk macro to Common Lisp's implementation and discussing feature limitations.
Introduces a new API for django-taggit using custom through models to support non-integer primary keys and extended tagging functionality.
A developer details the backend rewrite of 'A Feed Apart,' a real-time tweet aggregation site for web design/development conferences.
Analysis of Steve Jobs' open letter on Apple's decision not to support Flash on mobile devices, discussing proprietary standards and HTML5.
A developer's postmortem analysis of creating a simple game, 'Beebop The Island Hopper,' during the 24-hour Ludum Dare game jam competition.
A developer's late-night entry for the Ludum Dare 17 game jam, creating a game called 'Beebop The Island Hopper'.
A developer's troubleshooting note on fixing Oracle's ORA-00845 error by resizing /dev/shm after reading the alert log.
