A guide to wiring standard and crossover Ethernet cables using Cat5 cable and RJ45 connectors for 10BaseT/100BaseT networks.
A technical guide resolving a specific installation error for Microsoft Expression Studio 4 on Windows XP by modifying a registry key.
Announcing the release of MvcSiteMapProvider 3.0.0 for ASP.NET MVC 3, detailing new features and availability.
Guide on logging in SharePoint 2010 applications, covering ULS Logs reading and writing for performance monitoring.
A programmer reflects on juggling multiple unfinished tech projects and personal goals, discussing the challenge of focusing on a single 'top idea'.
A guide to using Windows Azure Connect to easily create a VPN and connect on-premises machines to Azure resources, solving home server backup challenges.
Analyzes Nokia's future in 2010, debating its high-end product struggles, Symbian's decline, and differing US/European market perspectives on data plans and phone usage.
Android Gingerbread will adopt the ext4 filesystem for improved performance, especially on dual-core ARM devices, replacing YAFFS.
Google App Engine 1.4.0 release introduces major features like the Channel API for real-time client push, Always On instances, and background processing improvements.
Author introduces 'shore', a statically typed, Python-inspired language designed for conciseness and high-level abstractions.
A low-cost method for monitoring OBIEE 10g systems using built-in JMX, jconsole, and custom scripting for data export and visualization.
A developer presents benchmark results showing ext4 filesystem scalability improvements on a 48-core system for an upcoming Linux kernel talk.
Patches added to Emacs 24 to enable proper transparency display for GIF images, using the frame color as the transparency color.
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.
