Recap of TechDays 2010 Portugal sessions on running WordPress on Windows Azure and integrating PHP with Silverlight, including presentation links.
A developer's experience using Opera browser with Oracle Enterprise Manager, highlighting its speed and tab management benefits.
A developer preparing for their first tech conference presentation on OBIEE performance testing seeks advice from seasoned speakers.
A personal recap of attending SQLBits VI, covering sessions on SQL Server performance tuning, parallel query execution, and the query optimizer.
Sunflower is an alpha-stage tool for automated content extraction from HTML documents using structural analysis and a Swing GUI.
A developer outlines planned improvements to their personal website, including code refactoring, new features, and UI tweaks, before starting a new game project.
A developer explains a case-sensitive ColumnMappings error in SqlBulkCopy and how to resolve it.
Discusses Google's ranking algorithm update prioritizing site speed, addressing web designers' concerns about balancing aesthetics with performance.
Hades 1.5 released, removing the mandatory Persistable interface requirement and introducing new XML namespace features for Spring/JPA applications.
A game developer discusses taking a break from game making to learn new tools like Vim and Haskell, and how exploring different programming paradigms improves skills.
A technical guide on creating and mounting Windows Azure Drives for PHP or Ruby applications using a custom .NET HTTP module.
A technical overview of running PHP applications on Windows Azure, covering scaling, storage, and SQL Azure with sample code.
Explains how to inject Spring beans into non-managed artifacts like Servlets using SpringBeanAutowiringSupport, reducing boilerplate code.
Explains why SQL CAST to VARCHAR without specifying a length can cause errors or truncation, and advises always defining the size.
Discusses how consumer-friendly devices like the iPad will make cloud computing mainstream by making it transparent and seamless for users.
A technical discussion on intentional symbol capture in Clojure macros for GUI development, using a Swing wizard as a case study.
A guide to using Apache Tika for extracting content and metadata from various file formats like PDFs, images, and Office docs in content repositories.
A developer reflects on shutting down a phpBB forum they didn't build themselves, preferring the satisfaction of using their own custom-built tools.
A technical talk on building RESTful web applications using the Spring 3 framework, including sample code.
A guide and demo session on migrating an existing ASP.NET application to the Windows Azure cloud platform, covering hosting, storage, and SQL Azure.
